ROSES EVERYWHERE (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

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  1. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

  2. Arxon

    Arxon Well-Known Member

    Holy shit classpecting Utena is surprisingly hard. I have a nagging urge to make Utena a Bard except Saionji is obviously a Bard, and I can't decide whether Nanami should be a Maid or a Witch and Rage or Light. Or maybe a Page. And I kinda wanna make Miki a Seer of Light and Kozue a Mage of Void but I dunno if that fits
     
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  3. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    An offering:
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  4. Rongeur

    Rongeur ~Heartless Bitch Extraordinaire~

    Paging @Vast Derp to the thread because I think I remember him having some good thinks about this. (At least the Prince is neatly sorted out. But I can't figure what his aspect would be. Hope, maybe?)

    Edit: Utena as a Knight seems like a good one tho. Especially if Anthy is a Witch.

    Edit Edit: I kind of want an AU where Akio and Anthy are cherubs tbh.
     
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  5. YggiDee

    YggiDee Well-Known Member

    It seems somewhat fitting for the Utena series that a prince is, fundamentally, a destroyer.

    Once long ago I found a LiveJournal comment explaining that the Shadow Play Girls are to Utena what SBaHJ is to Homestuck. Honest to God, that was what made me decide to watch Utena way back when.
     
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  6. Petra

    Petra space case

    Meanwhile, I think Anthy is in the role of the story a Muse - she passively inspires others and has massive power.
     
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  7. Arxon

    Arxon Well-Known Member

    I am getting more and more attached to Bard Utena. Like, the story of a bard is that they have a huge personal crisis/loss of faith, afterwhich they destroy what they once held dear, right? That fits in pretty damn nicely with Utena
     
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  8. Wiwaxia

    Wiwaxia problematic taxon

    pls no godtier though
     
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  9. Arxon

    Arxon Well-Known Member

    You don't tell Utena what to do
     
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  10. Petra

    Petra space case

    So it looks like I haven't posted this here! It's one of my favorite songs for Anthy, to the point I've sometimes contemplated putting effort in to learn to make an AMV to it.



    Door number two
    It's for you, little lady
    Is it all that you dreamed of?
    How, if I knew, would've been there waiting
    I'd have screamed out and jumped up

    Now here I am
    With my feet on the sand
    And a body that won't move
    The tide's coming in
    And I'm bound for a swim
    In a pair of cement shoes

    He takes what he can, what he wants
    Doesn't matter if it's ever been given
    I took the bait and a chance on a man
    Sold by the boy that he lived in

    And I was wrong to believe that strength makes you strong
    And I had hope in a change I would see in us both
    And now I'm heavy
    And he lifts me, but never once carried
    Door number two I've already walked through

    Ask me the question
    Who coulda guessed I'd be here at this crossroad?
    Plain to be seen that it's all up to me
    I'm no longer alone, though

    Nothing's changed
    And I see it more every day
    Nothing moves
    It's a game to be played and to lose

    And now I'm heavy, unsteady
    But maybe I'm getting ready
    And this might catch fire and char this ground
    I might lift this up
    To only be the one who's gonna get let down
    Will I be enough to get this on its way to find some higher ground?
    Before the waters rush
    I've got to make a change or else I know I'll drown

    Baby, look around
    Door number two I've already walked through
    I wanna see what's behind door number three
     
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  11. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

    picking the liveblog back up, now that i have the spoons to do it some more.

    i think i left off on the mikage seminar rejecting the onion dude?
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    i have a bad feeling about the fact that this is gonna be another wakaba-centric episode

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    WHAT DID I JUST WATCH

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    it seems everyone has been replaced with crab people, this must be the plot twist everyone has been warning me about. truly.

    on a more serious note, wakaba seems to be attributing how awesome she is currently being to saionji's presence, and it's annoying me bc she's already a cool person, and is really doing this all on her own

    and also everything akio is now saying is bullshit

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    oh no

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    oh no.

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    OH NO.

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    OH FUCK IT'S HAPPENING
     
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  12. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

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    ...this image is really bothering me

    i get the feeling she has a lot less of a passive role in the duels then she makes out with herself to have

    like, i'm starting to think that she actually wants to die, and is behind the whole mikage seminar thing. she sure as hell looks like the black rose groom, who's to say they are actually two different people?

    she is clearly capable of magic, so it's not that far-fetched

    i'm awfully afraid she's much more manipulative than i gave her credit for i'm shuddering
     
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  13. Secret Squirrel

    Secret Squirrel certainly something

    so Utena Tenjou and Steven Universe are the same age

    offscreen: the crystal gems kicking akio ohtori's ass
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  14. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    That... That seems so strange.

    Wait, no. Utena and Connie are almost the same age. Suddenly it's plausible.

    Sorry Steven. You look so young.
     
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  15. Rongeur

    Rongeur ~Heartless Bitch Extraordinaire~

    @Ipuntya please keep up the live blogging, this episode is one of my favorites in the whole show :3c
     
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  16. I went to an anime convention earlier this summer, and there were at least three prints for sale (from different artists) featuring the SU cast dressed as Utena characters.

    Connie was Utena, Steven was in Anthy's Rose Bride dress. I don't recall how Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet were identified with Utena characters beyond "student council uniforms." Off the top of my head I'd probably map Pearl to Juri? Amethyst's trickier, though, since she has issues but they don't line up with any of the student council... and Garnet is just way too well-adjusted to be a duellist. =P
     
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  17. Secret Squirrel

    Secret Squirrel certainly something

    Given all the anime references in SU, it's quite popular for crossover art!

    Btw, I personally like Lapis Lazuli as Anthy.
     
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  18. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

    sorry, i was pretty speechless for the rest of the episode
     
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  19. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

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    huh, i'm gonna call it now and say one of nanami's lackeys is gonna be the next duelist

    i wonder how they'll become relevant

    i bet one will steal touga out from under her nose and that will be the driving plot point this episode :^)

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    oKAY BUT THE WAY THESE GIRLS EAT POCKY WHILE TALKING LOOKS AND SOUNDS REALLY WEIRD

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    how did she get up there.

    lackey #1 must have become quite acrobatic from her trip to india

    gotta learn some serious survival skills to escape from surfboarding elephants after all

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    okay, so i guess this one's keiko then?

    i'm guessing she gonna be the black rose duelist since she's relatively more relevant than the rest of the lackeys

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    ???
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    ?

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    i have a really bad feeling, a really bad feeling that he's grooming her or something

    if akio's supposed to have something referred to as the "rapemobile," then i have a sinking feeling i know exactly what kind of predatory character he actually is

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    oh my gosh i'm snorting

    i know exactly where this is gonna go

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    YEP
     
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  20. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

    kintsugi has an image-per-post limit apparently so here's part 2 of liveblog
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    ugh nanami is such a giant asshole what the fuck

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    this is sickening i fucking hate fake-ass friends like this

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    SNRK

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    um...

    this is a pretty insightful quote, to say the least

    my mind is struggling to process all the implications of this
     
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