We're All Trapped In Our Prisons, Our Birdcages, Our Coffins... 🥀 [x]

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Utena pov:

So, lets now come to the next topic. This moves us away from Hinduism and into Buddhist territory. This sentence is one of the 3 Main charscteristics of the World according to Buddhism.

In Buddhism, the world has 3 Main Features, anata, anicca and dukkha. Meaning that there is nothing Staying constant, nothing which lasts eternal and the World will always have suffering.

(Ironically, in Utena, this sentence of nothing lasts eternal later ends with "but there is always suffering")

In Buddhism, these Main Features of the world are responsible for time becoming a cycles, or to say it otherwise, a Revolution.

But why does this lead to suffering: via the 3 poisons: hatred, delusion and greed

Delusion here is also meant as a desire of self deception and clinging to illusions and delusions despite the knowledge of them being false. In Buddhism, people are trapped in a world of illusions because they do not want to leave that world. Due to that, in the end, Utenas decision to leave the world of illusions and the cycle was the only right thing because there, she won against the poison.

Interestingly, in Buddhism, the path to free yourself from the 3 poisons is called a "vehicle". Like for example "diamond vehicle". Maybe this is meant by Utena turning into a car.

The whole Buddhist theory of suffering is also connected to the term of Sunyata which is important in the Kyoto School and post ww2 japanese philosophy. The kyoto school was a group of philosophers studying in germany under Martin Heidegger.

They combined Buddhism and heideggerian philosophy. Heidegger thought the main emotion of all humans is fear/anxiety and everything humans do is a rejection towards fear. Fear is connected to our mortality and to the fact that humans must choose actions but every action can have devastating consequences which are not always plannable but humans are always responsible for everything they do.

The kyoto school used heideggers theories and added the Buddhist idea of Sunyata. Sunyata means absolute nothingness. Absolute nothingness is in contrast to relative nothingness. Relative nothingness is basically lack and a nothingness where it's clear what is missing. Sunyata is a nothingness where it's unclear what is missing or if something is missing. And this causes fear. (Like the saying goes "you are not afraid that you are alone in a dark forest. You are afraid that you might not alone in the dark forest and that something is lurking there.

And sunyata also means everything in the world will be destroyed someday and is running towards its own destruction. (Absolute destiny apocalypse, like the name of this song.)

But everything humans achieve and do and accomplish is a reaction to the thought of sunyata. Absolute nothingness creates everything.

The sunyata theory and its influence is one reason why anime loves the apocalypse as a topic.

This Buddhist cosmology is related to the idea of entropy and self escalating chaos. Basically every possible way to fight against entropy causes more entropy and more chaos.

This is where the idea of Taoism, that the wise man does everything needed to be done by doing nothing and the idea of the immovable mover come into play. This all basically refers to the wise man as someone who avoids unnecessary entropy and who does not need to do more because of this.

As Kyubei points out, Homura is trapped in an eternal cycle of suffering due to her unwillingness to give up her desire to somehow save Madoka.

Interestingly, the Ending theme of madoka magica contains "its because you yearn with greed, even through your heart may bleed" a fitting line.

the ep where utena and wakaba fight is so funny bc anthy is there fearing for her life

"utena the sword. im right here get the sword. the sword. utena. utena the sword. get the sword. utena. quick utena. the sword. utena."

Am I really that bed💔😢

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What does your fave Magical Girl series say about you?

Sailor Moon: You're 1000% a Basic Bitch and proud of it! This is also probably your first introduction to the concept of queerness and shipping. Cardcaptor Sakura: You hate dubbed anime. You also pretend the manga doesn't exist, and you're Multi-Ship Trash. Shugo Chara!: You had/still have a crush on Ikuto Tsukiyomi. Madoka Magica: Get help. Just.... get help. Tokyo Mew Mew: You definitely got your fetish from this series. Doesn't matter what it is; you got it here. Mermaid Melody: Your favorite Disney film was The Little Mermaid and you carried that into anime. Princess Tutu: You like your fairy tales like you like your men: Hot, Angsty, and Homoerotic. Revolutionary Girl Utena: This was your bisexual awakening and your introduction of becoming an anime "Snob." Yuki Yuna is a Hero: You're Gen Z or younger. Wedding Peach: You're tired of pretending that love and marriage isn't what you want, and really, who can blame you? Full Moon wo Sagshite: You love cancer stories and idol anime. It probably also awakened a few things in you... Magic Knight Rayearth: You have a thing for classic Good vs Evil, Rescuing a Damsel in Distress tropes, except you are ALSO a slut for soul-crushing angst. Plus, you die a little inside when people praise CLAMP's works, but never mention this gem. Little Witch Academia: Your first fandom was Harry Potter, your next fandom was Sailor Moon, so what better combination than this?! Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne: You went into it thinking it was like Sailor Moon, and stayed for the Lupin the Third vibes and religious discourse. Pretear: You 1000% make perverted jokes about this series. Iykyk.

(Add your own in the comments! This is all just for fun! ❤)

news reporter anthy himemiya: […]as they say their final goodbyes to this fallen chairman, aggie ompoopoo- i’m sorry- onbooboo-

thinking about how wakaba changed everybody's life by putting pen on paper.

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