[S6E2] Revolutionary Girl Utena: Student Council Saga pt. 1, eps. 1–7
This episode is dedicated to all the GL-loving long-haul truckers in the audience. We see you, we support you, we will always be here for you.
Anyway, we start our discussion of Revolutionary Girl Utena with a deep dive into the first half of the Student Council Saga spanning episodes 1 through 7! We try to untangle everything that is introduced early on in this series including cyclic time, fairytales, gender roles, the tension between reality and unreality in the show and the evocation of the artifice of theatre and animation, the series’ immediate engagement with patriarchal systems…
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