So my he/they therapist, the one ive been visiting in the morgue elevator in the building that doesn’t exist, you know the one, well hes been telling me to revolutionize the world lately and tbh i just might. He offered me this sick ring to do it too
I just want to say again, I went to college with the anime club that first fansubbed Utena, and it’s been a real pleasurable surprise to see that one be canonized
I don’t think any of the people who worked on the translation were still around, even the grad students, but it was a canonical part of our rotation such that every undergraduate would be exposed to it once
I just want to say again, I went to college with the anime club that first fansubbed Utena, and it’s been a real pleasurable surprise to see that one be canonized
it’s almost embarrassing how many male fantasies come down to “what if this woman acted like a man?” and how many female fantasies come down to “what if this man acted like a woman?” like when the subtext is so blatant I almost have to look away
this is the plot of revolutionary girl utena
with occasional “upper-class sibling incest: fucked up but psychologically fascinating”
Suddenly strikes me that Utena is absolutely about tall towers, high vantage points, dueling platforms suspended in space where positioning is sometimes a consideration but there is 0 threat anyone is ever going to fall over the edge
It’s a relic of Japan’s entanglement with turn-of-the-20th century Germany that both Utena and Evangelion depict the world as run by strings being pulled from weirdly esoteric conference tables
