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okay it’s 1:30 am and I am going to try to talk about the utena finale it won’t be coherent or chronological but! that’s fine
OKAY SO FIRST the fact that what opened the rose gate what freed anthy wasn’t the sword wasn’t the representation of power and princeliness and the archetype of the prince but utena’s tears!!!! it was utena’s tears and her sincere compassion!!!!
AND WHEN I SAW ANTHY FALL - UTENA NOT PULL HER UP - AT THE END I WAS SAD BUT LIKE. the whole point is that it’s not that utena SAVED her. like the discussion they had in the last episode where utena apologizes for being selfish for saving her for well this
LIKE... SHE OPENED THE COFFIN SHE REACHED OUT HER HAND SHE HELPED ANTHY SHE DIDNT SAVE HER SHE HELPED HER BECAUSE THE IMPORTSNT THING WAS AGENCY. ANTHY NEEDED AGENCY AND TO CHOOSE THIS. AND SHE DID! AND SHE DID!
AND!! SOMEDAY TOGETHER WE’LL SHINE. I KNOW THEY FIND EACH OTHER, OUT IN THE WORLD. and the fact that anthy left behind her glasses and let loose her hair and WORE CLOTHES SHE PICKED like she is FREE NOW
also the part where she basically tells akio to go fuck himself but she is leaving. god that is powerful. i just. the revolution wasn’t like one individual person gaining the power to do something the revolution was like. AGENCY FREEDOM i don’t have quite the word but!!
ALSO the snippets of the student council like revolutionizing the world, destroying the manipulative oppressive system of ohtori, like they’re HEALING. miki is fine and nanami is fine and juri and shiori seem to be building a relationship based not on insecurity!
oh I can’t believe I forgot this but. THE POINT IS THIS. THST SHE DIDNT HAVE TO BE A PRINCE. to revolutionize the world to break free of those power structures of heteronormativity of misogyny. she couldn’t be a prince but that didn’t MATTER THAT WAS THEPOINT
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