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I'm having a pretty stressful day and this is very nice to hear

thank you!

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good friend of mine and extremely cool

you rock!

Just like any self-respecting Utena fan, I've latched onto a (semi) minor detail that I just can't find a satisfactory explanation for!

(MASSIVE RGU (series and movie) spoilers ahead!)

As someone who has engaged with RGU supplementary material plenty, it often goes out of its way to point out how Miki's eyes are "like crystals" and similar things. You can see it in the game and in the light novels.

The fan translation is accurate in this case.

So after staring at movie screenshots one too many times, I noticed that his eyes aren't blue there... they're green! And he's the only character whose eyes changed like this.

What does this mean? My first thought was to connect it with the characters who most prominently have green eyes in the series - Anthy, Akio and Dios. The characters who have the most power despite also being the most trapped in the system, with Anthy in particular having the power in the movie and being the only one of the three who is alive - if some theories are to be believed, she was the one who created the world the movie takes place in in the first place. However, she's also the person most trapped in it too.

However, their eyes are definitely not the same shade. More on that later.

An interesting part occurs in the movie during the Touga and Shiori scene - we cut to Miki and Kozue in the bath. It seems Miki has grown since the anime - he accepts that there's no going back to their childhood, and tells Kozue she's still precious to him. In response, Kozue threatens him with a razor and calls him a traitor.

And yet, the next time we see them, Kozue has become a car, and he smiles after she passes by, not sparing her a single glance. What happened? Did she become a sacrifice? She isn't seen individually afterwards unlike Shiori or Wakaba, she becomes just another car in the locust crowd. Perhaps more unsettling is the reason he gives to Juri for being a duelist - "I always wish to obtain more power". Juri responds to him by calling it manly.

That fucking smirk haunts me. Anyway.

Pursuit of power - doesn't this ring a bell? Perhaps like a certain student council president? Of course, in the movie, Touga is dead, so perhaps someone else took his place in the narrative... Miki. The unsettling implications of what happened to Kozue seem to add to this. Not quite as sinister as Touga's relationship with Nanami, and there's no reason to see it as similarly complex, but also I don't see what else it could be.

So even though Miki appears to be pursuing power at the cost of even his sister, potentially, he's unable to get there. His eyes are not the same shade as Anthy or Akio, not even close - they're much brighter. He appears to have shed some of his innocence - no longer wishing to go back to that garden - but he traded it to pursue more power. No wonder he isn't ready to leave Ohtori yet.

An English-speaking person may also be tempted to connect this to the common expression of "green-eyed envy", and yet I'm profoundly unsure if this is the case. He's never shown to be envious of the power possessed by anyone (unlike Touga, he can't look up to Akio, who is also very dead), even if he and Juri see the ghost of Dios inspecting the cars.

However, no matter how much he desires power, in the end, he's one of the people helping Utena and Anthy escape. He tells them how to go to the outside world. He promises the student council will join them eventually. Arguably the most good-natured interaction Anthy has with any of them.

His eyes appear to be showing how much he's changed since we saw him in the anime, and in some ways, perhaps not for the best. However, he's not fully trapped in the hell of Ohtori Academy yet - there is hope for him, even if he's strayed into such a dangerous path.

In the end, I think all of them deserve their revolution, even if the road getting there is bumpy.

...Or maybe they thought it would fit him more to have green eyes idk lol-

big shout out to this post making a way bigger splash than anything I put actual effort into, to the point where I see derivatives of it on my FYP

@p1×1e-dr3am this one's for you

A fascinating thing about Tumblr's rainbow filter is that it usually only targets the hair of one specific Student Council member from the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena...

(some of these images are eyestrain, so read more for them)

Not even Tumblr's filters believe he's straight lol

A fascinating thing about Tumblr's rainbow filter is that it usually only targets the hair of one specific Student Council member from the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena...

(some of these images are eyestrain, so read more for them)

Not even Tumblr's filters believe he's straight lol

🌸🏵🌹*insert dramatic violin music*🌹🏵🌸

genuinely cannot stop thinking about this tweet. i keep wanting to say "saionji somewhere in an alleyway:" unaware that no one will get the reference

in which I draw my favorite gay morons like they're Warriors Cats OCs because exams are kicking my ass

I can see the potential for symbolism and I hope my brain cooperates with me for it

read more for another one

not proud of it but it's not blatant ship art like the other one

Don't kill yourself, please.

If you’re suffering from depression and are looking for a sign to not go through with ending your life, this is it. This is the sign. We care.

If you see this on your dash, reblog it. You could save a life.

happy pride month, remember to claim anything rainbow in a homophobic country is gay

"i wanna make comics!" -guy who has never drawn a background in his life

I made a meme

omg, happy birthday friend!!! I hope you have a great one!!!! 🥳

I’ve already drawn Saionji for you before so I thought I’d try doodling Zoisite instead but I kinda don’t remember how to draw him shbjgfhb

and the award for best mutual goes to:

happy birthday to me

to celebrate I'm posting the guy who got me my first anon hate comment in chibi form

Goodbye hug

It's for the better

Check out the kitties I saw today

Thanks.

Everyone look at them now.

this made me laugh. He would fucking hate this

🫵⁉️

Hello, my dear QPP. Nice of you to join me.

an Utena Abridged series except it slowly becomes apparent that it's yet another cycle that's falling apart at the seams as it goes on

none of the characters are actually that different from canon, just a little gayer and a little more honest with themselves

Anthy is the real main character, and she's completely done with all of this already

all of this is alluded to in the first episode as a meta joke

that would be funny I think

Happy lunar new year (if you celebrate)!! Saionji is not thrilled about being stuffed in an envelope, but he and I hope all the best comes to you this year!! Thanks for chatting about disaster men with me and generally being such a funny, clever, and thoughtful friend! 😊

AAAAAAAAAA OMGOMGOMGGGGG HE'S SO CUUUUUUTE

thank you so much!! I'm not even sure what I'm doing for you to like me so much but be sure to tell me about your favorite Fire Emblem guys to stuff in pockets!!

Happy two years on the Hellsite!

thanks, I'll annoy you guys even more

that one class of 09 scene

bonus:

together at the end of time

I got anon hate today which means I'm a real artist now

Never make colored sketches in MS Paint worst mistake of my life

I didn't bother to clean this one up but I'm posting it anyway

The amount of brainrot I experienced to make this is an exercise left up to the reader

(More info under the cut)

Did you know that shamisens are incredibly thick and those things (called bachi) used to play them are huge? It's entirely possible I didn't get this correct at all...

Based on this painting of a Nekomata

from the Hyakkai Zukan

My brain gave me this image.

two sides of the same coin

happy New Year I will flood you with my blorbos even more next time

so it took me an embarrassing amount of time to understand who you mean because I just woke up but

yes he is awful and I want to put him in the washing machine and he's so pathetic and I love him

MR SPINACH HAS SUCH A PUNCHABLE FACE I WANNA HIT HIM WITH A TON OF BRICKS

from March 2020