Totally. It fries me so hard when fandom claims Anthy's either a passive little woobie victim or a nasty bitch because she's so much more complex than that!
Awesome idea. :3
Yeah, the comforting scene was just "wow, you sexually assault her and goad her and now you're trying to be her fucking knight in shining armor, Ruka?" It would've been more powerful if he'd walked away realizing he was wrong and Utena had been the one to say "it's going to be okay" because she was that type, she was naive and idealistic and didn't always fully understand the drama going down around her.
Me too! I love how it's both loving and sweet but also toxic and fucked up. Utena cares for and uses Anthy, Anthy hates and loves Utena and it's just so...you just want them to throw off the shackles and have a happy ending! And I've been fixated on Juri/Shiori lately. I just wish Shiori had more episodes that DIDN'T involve Ruka, but her Black Rose episode was hella powerful in its own right. It's mutually toxic and both gorls have things to overcome but the series ended with it looking like they were starting to.
And omg, Juri/Miki is SO cute. I think he's the only male I ship Juri with solely because they have that dynamic, he's someone she can relax and be warm with and he admires and trusts her and obbviously crushes on her. And yeah, Juri/Utena works better as a friendship.
Touga/Saionji's sword pulling sequence in their final duel is so sexually charged. I love their messed up friendship and the flashback scene in episode 9 made me wanna write more about them as kids and Touga's terrible past and Saionji's backstory. (I feel like his parents were okay to him but his dad abused his mom. Which could be part of where he learned to abuse Anthy from. D: ) And the scene with Nanami and Saionji and the eggs made me ship it so hard. XD And ugh, the Kiryuus were such horrible people, especially to Touga. I like to consider his movie backstory canon to the series because I feel like it explains some of his attitudes and part of why he let Akio use him. (The other part being that he used Akio for his power.)
YES, Utena managing to win without taking a single strike against Wakaba. And I ship them, too, not quite as much as Utena/Anthy but still. And Wakaba does warm up to Anthy a bit later on, so... :3
Kanae needs REAL love. :( If Akio died and Dios became a person and went back to his old ways of caring about girls I'd ship Dios/Kanae, but Dios is so long dead and the guy he turned into is horrible and needs to go to jail forever. So her and Kozue might be interesting together. :3 Assuming she managed to survive the poisoning. Or her and Tatsuya if he and Wakaba didn't quite work out! Tatsuya's kind of a butthead but he's a sweet guy and he's at least honest about his feelings.
Kozue is a mess, yeah. Her movie self is just plain scary but her series self is somewhere between that and her manga version. The manga had a chapter devoted to her and Miki and it seemed to resolve things between them a bit better, but the anime left it sliiightly more ambiguous. She loves and cares for her brother but she knows he's become a different person and she's torn between "I live for him" and "fuck him, I do what I want".
Awesome! :D I have some Utena Miis, too. I should get Tomodachi Life at some point.
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Awesome idea. :3
Yeah, the comforting scene was just "wow, you sexually assault her and goad her and now you're trying to be her fucking knight in shining armor, Ruka?" It would've been more powerful if he'd walked away realizing he was wrong and Utena had been the one to say "it's going to be okay" because she was that type, she was naive and idealistic and didn't always fully understand the drama going down around her.
Me too! I love how it's both loving and sweet but also toxic and fucked up. Utena cares for and uses Anthy, Anthy hates and loves Utena and it's just so...you just want them to throw off the shackles and have a happy ending! And I've been fixated on Juri/Shiori lately. I just wish Shiori had more episodes that DIDN'T involve Ruka, but her Black Rose episode was hella powerful in its own right. It's mutually toxic and both gorls have things to overcome but the series ended with it looking like they were starting to.
And omg, Juri/Miki is SO cute. I think he's the only male I ship Juri with solely because they have that dynamic, he's someone she can relax and be warm with and he admires and trusts her and obbviously crushes on her. And yeah, Juri/Utena works better as a friendship.
Touga/Saionji's sword pulling sequence in their final duel is so sexually charged. I love their messed up friendship and the flashback scene in episode 9 made me wanna write more about them as kids and Touga's terrible past and Saionji's backstory. (I feel like his parents were okay to him but his dad abused his mom. Which could be part of where he learned to abuse Anthy from. D: ) And the scene with Nanami and Saionji and the eggs made me ship it so hard. XD And ugh, the Kiryuus were such horrible people, especially to Touga. I like to consider his movie backstory canon to the series because I feel like it explains some of his attitudes and part of why he let Akio use him. (The other part being that he used Akio for his power.)
YES, Utena managing to win without taking a single strike against Wakaba. And I ship them, too, not quite as much as Utena/Anthy but still. And Wakaba does warm up to Anthy a bit later on, so... :3
Kanae needs REAL love. :( If Akio died and Dios became a person and went back to his old ways of caring about girls I'd ship Dios/Kanae, but Dios is so long dead and the guy he turned into is horrible and needs to go to jail forever. So her and Kozue might be interesting together. :3 Assuming she managed to survive the poisoning. Or her and Tatsuya if he and Wakaba didn't quite work out! Tatsuya's kind of a butthead but he's a sweet guy and he's at least honest about his feelings.
Kozue is a mess, yeah. Her movie self is just plain scary but her series self is somewhere between that and her manga version. The manga had a chapter devoted to her and Miki and it seemed to resolve things between them a bit better, but the anime left it sliiightly more ambiguous. She loves and cares for her brother but she knows he's become a different person and she's torn between "I live for him" and "fuck him, I do what I want".
Awesome! :D I have some Utena Miis, too. I should get Tomodachi Life at some point.