Adolescence Of Utena - Blog Posts
TOUGALICIOUS
DISCLAIMER!!!
(I DO NOT LIKE TOUGA AS A PERSON AND DO NOT CONDONE ANYTHING HE HAS DONE)
This is a parody RGU (specifically touga) version of the song "karkalicious", which was based off "fergalicious" which means these lyrics HAVE been altered by me BUT I DIDN'T write the original song or karkalicious. This text contain mildly suggestive lyrics, but nothing too bad. I have sensored it as well, but read at your own risk! :)
Four, three, two, fork you
Listen up y’all, this shirt is ironic Saionji’s beats are best for girls hooked on angst and chronic (Chronic playboy syndrome?)
Tougalicious definition makes Kozue loco She wants to know the secrets she can’t taste in my photo Dyin’ just to know the flavor I ain't doin’ her no favors No reasons why I tease Her blush just comes and goes like seasons
I’m Tougalicious (so delicious) No, I don’t do kiss faces And if you read those fanfics Half that shirt is capricious I blow kisses (mwah!) Don’t matter if we’re just more gays Girls be lining down the aisle for a chance with me (Four, three, two, fork you)
So delicious (super sweet — haha, not) So delicious (forkin’ playboy beachhhh) So delicious (even Shiori wants a piece o’ me) I’m Tougalicious (l-l-l-like Anthy, Anthy)
Tougalicious def— Tougalicious def— (Gosh dammit, Saionji, stop forkin’ with my mic)
Tougalicious definition makes the fandom crazy Girls always squealin’, Cutesy pet names like “Kiryuu-senpai,” baby I’m the T to the O, U, the G, the A And the majority of pairings better include me, hey
I’m Tougalicious (so delicious) My aura stays malicious All the council’s gettin’ nervous ‘cause I’m playin’ so capricious Nanami’s my witness (whistle!) Bet that ship rails And he’ll be needin’ all the towels ‘cause I’ma make him sweat pails (Four, three, two, fork you)
So delicious (super sweet) So delicious (forkin’ playboy beachhhh) So delicious (even Miki wants a piece o’ me) I’m Tougalicious
(Now you background extras, hold the fork up, check it out)
Baby, baby, baby If you really want me Honey, get some patience Maybe then you’ll be my bride I’ll be tasty, tasty I’ll be raced with roses It’s so tasty, tasty It’ll make you crazy
T to the O, to the U G A — forkin’ touga T to the A, to the S T E Y — forkin’ tasty D to the E, to the L I C I O U S To the D, to the E, to the, to the, to the
I’ll just spell it out for you!
All the time I turn around, girls gather ‘round Always sniffin’ at me, wanna guess the
Color of my rose I just wanna say it now I’m so tired of all the drama Little forkers, I just don’t care
You should know I never come off as Just a little insecure, although I keep on repeatin’ how the
Revolution’s forkin’ awesome But I’m tryin’ to tell — it’s a secret I don’t wanna tell Utena says I smell
Delicious (so delicious) No, I don’t do kiss faces And if you read those fanfics Half that shirt is capricious I blow kisses (mwah!) Don’t matter if we’re just a**holes Girls be lining down the aisle for a chance with me
Four, three, two, fork you My body stays vicious Miki’s feelin’ nervous ‘cause I’m just so ambiguous Juri’s my witness (meow!) I’ll even let her first ship sail Just watch that kitten be the first to lose the forkin’ veil
So delicious (Utena, see) So delicious (you can trust me) So delicious (I’ll help you be) I’m Tougalicious, l-l-like Anthy, Anthy (Utena, Utena) It’s so delicious (ay, ay, ay, ay) So delicious (ay, ay, ay, ay) So delicious (ay, ay, ay, ay) I’m Tougalicious (say I’m meant for Anthy, Anthy)
T to the O, to the U G A — forkin’ touga T to the A, to the S T E Y — forkin’ tasty T to the O, to the U G A — forkin’ touga To the D, to the E, to the L I C I O U S D to the E, to the L I C I O U S To the D, to the E, to the, L I C I O U S To the D, to the E, to the L I C I O U S To the D, to the E, to the, to the, to the
Now, wait just a motherforkin’ second!
Do I seriously gotta spell this shirt ‘Til the end of the forkin’ series?
I mean, whoever wrote the original Never had access to spellcheck, I guess
‘Cause T-A-S-T-E-Y does not spell tasty Was this idiotic duelist illiterate, or what?
What do you mean duelist rap artists Are the only ones brave enough to write Their own grammatical car wrecks and call it music? What the fork even is Saionji doing?
He doesn’t throw down sickfics anymore?
Fork this shirt, I quit.
It's Anthy's birthday! I did the movie designs because I couldn't remember if I ever drew them and wanted to.
This song from the Utena movie makes me want to cry but I don’t know why. I have strong feeling towards this movie.
Rewatching Adolescence of Utena for like the 50th time is so interesting because I'm either 1, Overanalyzing every pixel.. 2, just watching for the "omg she said the thing!! The car thing!! AAA!!", Or 3, I'm just so happy to see this masterpiece again because it's my comfort movie and my spintrest.
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-
Kind of a screenshot redraw type thing for Juri’s birthday! I wasn’t planning to do full shading but it happened anyway lol
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