all aboard the utena train: a very formal prelude

I am under the impression [Revolutionary Girl Utena] is something resembling a diegetic shoujo princess/knight story but it is under a billion layers of metaphor and symbolism and cool silhouettes that had a formative impact on modern cartoons, and also someone turns into a car

^me, yesterday. I was telling myself I wouldn’t start watching this until I checked a couple things off my to-do list (art and replies, namely), and in the name of self-control I… should probably stick to that, actually. Got a busy couple days ahead too, which could throw a wrench in the binging plans, but I have a lil bit of time to kill so I’m going to bang out some current impressions/thoughts. And then later we can see if I’m anywhere near accurate :D

( impressions were unclear there are no cars til the movie, but still )

Oh yeah, I should also mention: I don’t have a spoiler policy/preference, since I don’t tend to avoid them in general, so there’s other random tidbits I’ve heard vaguely about but didn’t think to note above. (Something something incest something something.. eggs?? That One Pose with the dramatic sword through the torso. And anything I might recognize from SU.)

But that being said, I’m going in pretty blind as far as the overall plot trajectory is concerned, and would probably* like to stay that way! Vague ominous hints like “oh you’re gonna love this next part” are cool, outright “xyz happens next” nah. (*Well, probably. If I read a wiki or something that’s on me. :P)

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