Goodluck

The ending of Klein’s advancement to the fool is so funny they all really just left Antigonus there with no clue what the fuck was going on

bad media will piss you off good media will heal your soul bad media that couldve been good will ruin your life forever

what if you were SOME GUY and the first time you meet a famous superhero is when he KILLS HIMSELF and then you get KIDNAPPED and told you have to ADOPT HIS IDENTITY and your new girlfriend HATES YOU and your new arch nemesis is GAY and tries to KILL YOU because you’re not his REAL BOYFRIEND who he ALSO WANTS TO KILL

Actually imagining living in the To be Hero X universe is so wild, cause it’ll be like, “Oh yeah 40 or so years ago, there was this one hero who became a god, because we believed in him too much, he almost destroyed the world (not sure exactly why), every hero at the time had to work together, to be finally able to kill him, yeah it was horrible, so hear this, that hero who gave him the last blow? Who saved the world? Yeah we watched him get murdered, live-stream, it was tough, because we had to choose between whether to watch that live or this other heroes concert live, you’re hearing this right? And the current most powerful hero is omnipotent, no one knows what his deal is, and at all the times, if enough people trust it into existence? We can make another world ending hero, god, except this time they’re like 5 candidates for it (wonder if there were candidates for that spot when it was Zero), anyways this is all probably very boring to you, oh no, wait, so we’re going to have to go around this street, not because there is construction going on or anything, it’s because some hero is fighting their staged nemesis who’s actually their best friend, what do you mean do we go into existential crisis, wonder where the trust value came from? It’s always been there? Anyways gotta go, I’m late for my bus, because we had to go around that street.”

Actually imagining living in the To be Hero X universe is so wild, cause it’ll be like, “Oh yeah 40 or so years ago, there was this one hero who became a god, because we believed in him too much, he almost destroyed the world (not sure exactly why), every hero at the time had to work together, to be finally able to kill him, yeah it was horrible, so hear this, that hero who gave him the last blow? Who saved the world? Yeah we watched him get murdered, live-stream, it was tough, because we had to choose between whether to watch that live or this other heroes concert live, you’re hearing this right? And the current most powerful hero is omnipotent, no one knows what his deal is, and at all the times, if enough people trust it into existence? We can make another world ending hero, god, except this time they’re like 5 candidates for it (wonder if there were candidates for that spot when it was Zero), anyways this is all probably very boring to you, oh no, wait, so we’re going to have to go around this street, not because there is construction going on or anything, it’s because some hero is fighting their staged nemesis who’s actually their best friend, what do you mean do we go into existential crisis, wonder where the trust value came from? It’s always been there? Anyways gotta go, I’m late for my bus, because we had to go around that street.”

every so often i see takes from new fans of rgu who are like "i was liking this anime but idk why it has to have so much incest :/" and i bang my head against the wall

one of my biggest points of frustration with all the western cartoon makers (or any kind of lesbian western art as a whole) who cite revolutionary girl utena as an inspiration is that every "homage" or inspiration they take from the show seems to be about Cool Lesbians With Swords And Nothing Else. or at best star crossed lover girls. it's like all the darker and more genuinely challenging and unique aspects of it has to be cleanly excised. and like don't get me wrong i absolutely get why a western kids' cartoon is not gonna address any kind of sexual abuse nvm incestuous ones but it's frustrating to see newer fans want to omit these aspects of the show, or downplay its importance to the plot and themes at all as though the entire final arc wasn't about utena's grooming and anthy's suicidality as her sexually abusive brother ropes her further into the duel system and in helping grooming utena, while believing she doesn't deserve saving and resenting utena for how she refuses to understand the dynamic between them or how akio treats either of them for the longest time. like sorry the hand reaching scene at the end isn't simply touching because Yuri Wins or whatever but because even when anthy tries to push away utena one last time by stabbing her, giving in fully to her forced role of Witch and of suffering, utena straight up ignores akio and crawls to anthy to tell her that she's worthy of being loved and being saved no matter what. no matter if anthy thinks of herself or is seen as unclean and broken and monstruous both as a victim of incestuous sexual abuse and as the designated Witch who cannot be a clean woman or loved in normative ways according to the structures and rules of ohtori--anthy IS worthy of that love and of being saved. of existing outside these structures. it feels genuinely kinda sad when people think that discussing these structures at all (incestuous abuse and csa being considered the pillars of patriarchy in rgu, disguised and normalized by ideas of the nuclear family and the princess/witch archetypes) is sick or disturbing and should be left out!