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STOP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING
IT IS THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AND THERE IS A CHANCE YOU MAY NOT HAVE SEEN THESE IMAGES OF NANAMI KIRYUU, THE MAIN CHARACTER OF #UTENA
uh parallel post ig nanami and anthy because nanami has more in common with anthy than either of them like to admit
first pic is courtesy of Neptune, and the second and third are mine yeah, we made these independent of each other because the show just goes that hard #Utena
Episode 39, "Someday, Shine with Me" animation cels, scanned & cleaned up (I do my best to preserve natural flaws & breakdown) from the Hardcore of #Utena artbooks. The second one is brand new! If you like these, there are more as I slowly pick through: https://t.co/lX4Q9BAVYG
I first scanned this image from the Revolutionary Girl #Utena Chiho Saito Illustration Collection on July 22, 2001. The 1350px wide, 96dpi image took hours of computer processing.
In 20 min I just produced a new 7500px, 1200dpi scan. Full size: https://t.co/TnyVF4sV0D
For Utena's 10th anniversary, I took on a massive project to screencap the entire series for the gallery. I even pieced together panned shots...by hand. I cleaned the awful DVD transfer as much as I could. I worked for months.
Then Ikuhara announced the series remaster.
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Check out this great catch by Neptune on our Discord. And by great I mean sad and painful.
1. Ep 16 The Cowbell of Happiness
2. Ep 32 The Romance of the Dancing Girls
Nanami's bizarre daydream about Touga eating her, versus the reality of him chewing her up and spitting her out.
Chiho Saito's artwork for the Utena movie is something you need to see if you haven't already
This aesthetic dominated Utena fan website design for years in the 2000's, lmaaaao TWO COLORS GAUSSIAN BLUR
Last but definitely not least, who can forget the time that Touga dunks on himself so hard he not only loses the girl he thinks he loves, but forces her to confront the incestuous relationship between Akio and Anthy, thus helping her come to a reckoning with it and...
That time Touga forces Saionji to experience his own imminent death and gets himself sliced open in the process...
That time that Touga knowingly let Utena in Anthy's body crush Saionji's ego, after a long chain of events (also put in motion by Touga) ending up with Saionji stuck in Chu-Chu's body and vice versa...