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The Adolescence of Utena (1999)

Sailor Moon | "Angelic Revolution 3"

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Character Arcs

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Worldbuilding: Questions to Consider

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How To Name Fantasy Races (Step-by-Step)

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Character Ask Game #1

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Writing Tips

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We're all trapped in our prisons, our birdcages, our coffins... 🥀 [x]

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) - Directed by 幾原邦彦 Kunihiko Ikuhara

#05 : 'The Sunlit Garden – Finale'

Storyboard : 錦織博 Hiroshi Nishikiori

Episode #05 of RGU marks a major visual and narrative turning point in the series. From the very first images, the storyboard takes on a new dimension. The overall atmosphere becomes heavier and more symbolic. This shift in style in this episode foreshadows what will become the very identity of Utena : a blend of visual poetry, heavy symbolism, and an almost dreamlike ambiance. #05 is the first episode that truly immerses us in this unique aesthetic imo.

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Someone NEEDS to draw post!ohtori Anthy with this kind of fashion sense. I might end up being the one who Needs to draw her like this.

絶対運命黙示録 - Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA (1997)

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."

oh, little pavlova cookie..

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* body language masterlist

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The Covey:

that video of all those sabrina carpenters killing miku in fortnite makes me sad. it reminds me of high school

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.

I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out

I am extremely impressed about how popular my occult analysis of Utena became. Thanls to all. So, I thought lets continue and now, lets continue with the rose bride. To do this, lets do a small detour to another series Kunihiko Ikuhara was involved in. Lets talk about sailor moon. You read that I already talked about the masonic pillars and that they represent male and female spiritual energies as well as the moon and the Sun. And that the Middle between the pillars symbolises the unity between moon and Sun.

You might have noticed this composition which is frequently used in sailor moon. Sailor moon uses the same masonic symbolism as Utena.

In many spiritual traditions, male and female were originally united and one of the first stages of the fall of Man is seen as splitting up the male and the female. Plato is famous for talking about that but this is also part of the myth of the Zulu in africa (Credo Mutwa frequently talked about that.) and it also appeared in Hinduism and Kabbalism. Due to these ideas, in germany, its common to call ones wife your "other half" or "your better half" because its Custom to think that your spouse helped you regain that lost unity.

One of the first Actions of queen beryl in the Story was literally to make the boys (endymion and the shitennou) fight against the girls. That was the first Step of the fall.

Sailor Moon as the moon Princess also symbolises the divine feminine lunar principle. In tradition and esotericism, the lunar principle is associated with the virtue of care which usagi definitely displays and with a certain way of chaotic and highly Dynamic but less focused thinking and with emotions. All traits displayed by usagi. And usagis crystal is the silver crystal. In alchemy, silver represents femininity and the moon. (Interestingly, madoka in madoka magica is also connected to silver. Best example here the Song of "your silver garden" in the Ending of the third Film. )

Interestingly, sailor moon is often depicted as standing on the moon sickle. In traditional art, she shares this trait with depictions of the Virgin Mary, the ideal feminine in Christianity.

Mamoru got the Golden crystal. Gold is a symbol for the solar masculine principle. And he got the golden crystal from the sun God helios. And his zodiac sign is the lion. The lion mane is associated with the rays of the sun making the lion another sun symbol. (One other depiction of that is in pokemon Solgaleo which literally means Sun Lion.)

According to certain occultists like Julius Evola and the freemason Manly Palmer Hall, the role of the divine masculine is to help the feminine gain and maintain focus and Stability. This is exactly what Mamoru does to Usagi in the series and to his daughter. (When mistress nine steals chibiusas heart, he literally stabilizes her mind.)

Mamoru often does astonishingly few things in the fight. He mostly helps others do the right thing. This fits with the occult idea of the male as the immovable mover and the Calm stable principle. Like Taoist Lao Tsu wrote " the wise man does nothing but ensures that everything needed to do gets done"

In alchemy, the combination of Gold and silver, due to it meaning man and woman is called a chemical Wedding.

German has a certain trait that in older texts, you can replace the Letter E with Ü and Y. One of the few words where this is still common is the german word denkt (meaning someone thinks) or denken (to think). This can be written as Dünken or dünkt sometimes.

The most famous use of the Word chemical Wedding is in the foundational rosicrucian Text Die Chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosenkreuz. There, this alchemical Ritual is performed in a tower to resurrect a Dead prince.

This tower is the symbolism between Akio and his Tower.

(By the way. Some depictions of the tower in the rosicrucian book depict the tower as an Obelisk and in ancient egypt, the tower represents the lost phallus of Osiris.)

CG Jung called the solar and lunar principle Anima and Animus. They are also frequently depicted as twins. Like anthy and akio.

Now, lets finally go to anthy. Her symbolism is more complex. She has traits of the biblical whore of Babylon. Especially in her colour symbolism (Red and purple) . Interestingly, sailor moon uses the exact same symbolisms for its female villains. Especially queen berlin and mistress nine. Anthys Name is connected to the greek godess hera and she shares some similarities to the Pistis Sophia in gnosticism. (Similar to Eve Tokimatsuri in megazone 23)

But now, I want to talk about something else. You know Anthy looks Hindu.

There is a certain left hand path tradition called Tantra which is heavily connected to both Hinduism and Buddhism. (Some anthropologists suggests tantra is a kind of tribal tradition originating from people conquered by the Indians.)

Part of Hinduism is the concept of the divine feminine as Shakti. Shakti is on the one hand this split of feminine site as explained above.

The other aspect is the idea of the divine female principle as energy, power and the ability to do something. (Shakti also literally means energy. There is a certain Ritual to energize someone in tantrism called a Shaktipat.) Kabbala has similar ideas which is an explaination for the so called kabbalistic Flash (where every male Action needs to be Enhanced by a feminine sephiroth leading to a zick zack path)

This concept is also linked to the concept of practical intelligence versus conceptual intelligence. (And interestingly, according to neurologist Simon Baron Cohen, certain people whose brain development was influenced by too much Testosterone have problems with practical intelligence leading to problems in hand eye coordination and movement. This is one origin of the trope of the Nerd who is terrible at sports.)

Due to this, another metaphor for the Shakti is the sword, because the warrior is able to Perform an Action due to having a sword. In Utena, swords are famously generated by womans bodies.

Another metaphor for the Shakti is the term "the bride". And according to occultist Julius Evola, in tantric groups, there are spiritual Contests and only the spiritually strongest is said to fully pocess "the bride". In the context of Utena, this sounds very familiar.

By the way, one infamous aspect of Tantra is orgies. While Utena does not depict that, the series is very promiscous with changing relationships. Sometimes in the Show it really seemed that almost everyone at least once had a relationship with almost everyone else.😅 (By the way, the most famous tantric book is the Kama Sutra.)

One other aspect here. Utena as a character is infamously based on Haruka from sailor moon

And both Haruka and Utena are the most famous tomboys in anime history. While both indeed have a certain small connection to the solar principle (both their Names Tenoh and Tenjou refer to the heaven and the idea of heaven is connected to the solar principle via the greek god Apollon), both of them do not Meet the idea of the "immovable mover".

And tomboys both in Literature and in real life are more associated with energy, dynamism and being wild. ( For example, marle from chrono trigger is once called a tomboy and there is a dialogue where in the next sentence is said "I would like to know how wild she really is")

You see, this fits VERY well with the idea of the feminine as Shakti and energy. (By the way, my girlfriend is a tomboy as well and the idea of shakti energy fits her very well, as well as the tantric metaphor to "ride the tiger")

Utena is more Shakti than solar "immovable mover"

And like I said, Tantra is connected to nomadic, tribal people. The idea of the tomboy is frequently connected to huntresses in civilizations like Mongolia or the japanese Ainu. (Nakoruru from samurai shodown with her pet wolf is also a very good example here.) Sometimes, the greek godess Diana is also mentioned here.

There is also a certain theory that the metaphor of the trapped, oppressed godess (like the gnostic Pistis Sophia and the greek Hera which was one influence on Anthy) might represent the conquering of nomadic civilizations by partriarchical agrarian "right hand path" civilizations.

Aleister crowleys successor Kenneth Grant and the Hippie Philosopher terrence McKenna both also associated the left hand path with nomadic, tribal, paleolithic cultures.

Another aspect about the whole thing. According to the anthropologist and occult researcher Herman Wirth, ancient Germanic Tribes had female priestresses. These priestresses which used magic cauldrons were called the So called Hags. This is where the english term old hag comes from. The german word Hexe (meaning witch) is also derived from the term hag. They were also Experts in medicine etc.

But when the Odin worship was established, the Hags were more and more ostracized, oppressed and sidelined. Later leading to Christian witch hunts. The war between the aesir and the nature gods of the vanir is also seen as a metaphor for the depowerment of the witches and this war in myth has a function akin to the original sin.)

Anthys role as a witch and her slow demonization parallels these theories about real witches rather well.

(Side Note. Herman Wirth is also referenced in Final Fantasy 7. Professor Gast has a similar history and a similar appereance to Herman Wirth and in german, a Gast is a term which can refer to a customer of a Wirth. This also connects Aerith to this topic.)

Madoka Magica has a similar witch symbolism but uses it more as a metaphor for Kierkegaards existential despair and sin as a result of despair.

sailor chibimoon  | pink sugar heart attack

I Should See Revolutionary Girl Utena!🌹

I've heard some good things about it. I've heard some bad things. Things that people like & what they don't like. Their favorite arcs. Their favorite characters. The fact that the main character's a young lady who wishes to be a prince, some LGBTQ+ representation, a cute monkey Magical Girl mascot (of sorts), & a dark-skinned princess?! There's also a MOVIE?! I for one really love the aesthetic & art direction this anime is going for. It looks so beautiful! Plus, I'm almost at the last season of Sailor Moon in my binge watch & I'll need more classic Magical Girl fun to consume!

“Bet I know a thing or two about your dove.” “Like what?” “Like she’s delightful to look at, swishes around in bright colors, and sings like a mockingjay. You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder, because her plans don’t include you at all.” Something something, Coriolanus calling Lucy Gray "my girl" versus Haymitch calling Lenore Dove "my girl."

me: you know, juri x shinohara wakaba would be a really cute ship

me: juri would make shinohara feel special and show appreciation for her acts of service/acts of love, and shinohara's loyalty and honest, open affection would help juri have hope and even be a good partner for her to practice vulnerability with

me: and it fits with my bi wakaba headcanon

me: this would be so good actually - let me look for this relationship tag on ao3

*4 works with Arisugawa Juri x Shinohara Wakaba*

me: oh no

I know it's implied that Madoka was able to draw her magical girl costume because of her subconscious memories of being a magical girl in other timelines. But when my partner @joestarluxe and I were rewatching the series, they pointed out that Madoka has a plushie that vaguely resembles her magical girl form:

(shoutout to the Mami-like plushie too; out of frame there's also a Sayaka-like plushie)

Anyway, we know from the PSP game (as explained by Kyubey) that each magical girl's costume is unique and based on her attributes. I've always headcanoned that magical girls' costumes are something they love wearing (or at least something they think is cute/cool) and are in-line with their aesthetic preferences.

So what I'm getting at is, what if Madoka subconsciously based her magical girl form off one of her favorite plushies? Yeah, I know this plushie is probably just a quick visual reference, but I really love the idea of Madoka taking inspiration from one of her beloved plushies.

really enjoying Utena so far cant wait to figure out whats going on

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🩷💜My finished UtenaAnthy ita bag 💜🩷

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💜🩷Details🩷💜

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I love having a safe spot to display some of my Utena merchandise. I have a lot of cool cute items from '97, but I'd feel terrible if they broke or got lost! So ita bag it is! 💜🩷

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The mockingbird, the jabberjay and the mockingjay 🕊️ inspired by this post by @fromevertonow

The Victors of District 12