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feeling: brain cramped
listening to: Utena - Akio Car
I love weekends. They provide a much needed break from college. I've been so stressed lately about all this scheduling, major, and honors crap. True, I did bring MOST of it upon myself, but... well, worst case scenario: I get stuck with a less-than-optimal schedule next quarter, miss out on a class or two I need that's only offered in autumn, get stuck at OSU for another year or two, and have to do a senior thesis. -_- I have scheduled with my new advisor type person to meet on Monday to discuss what I need for my major and stuff; until then, there's really nothing else I can do. So I've been doing all I can to forget about it until Monday and let myself relax. It's not easy.
So... here's another Utena blog. You know the drill.
Utena Spoilers Ahead... read on if you daaaare and stuff
Still reading? Then make sure you've read my blog below about Anthy's glasses first, cause this is a continuation of that.
...Ready? Right. So I was watching more episodes today, and I found another scene that further tears up my theory that Anthy's glasses blind her to everything but Akio's reality. I forget what episode it was exactly... somewhere around the Ruka mini-arc, between 25 and 30. Remember I mentioned that every so often Anthy goes to visit her brother... he beckons her, she takes off her glasses, walks toward him, cut to black? Well, this is one of those scenes, except Anthy didn't take off the glasses. And when Akio beckoned, she didn't go to him. Finally he had to forcibly grab her and yank her to him, much to her displeasure. So to speak. *koff* So you can see how that fudges up my theory. That would suggest something the exact opposite of my previous theory... something like, Anthy was her brother's pawn before he gave her the glasses, purely due to her devotion and love for him, and this affected her behavior in reality and sort of gave him away as a manipulative demon, so he gave her the glasses to blind her to his reality when she wasn't around him. That could work in some senses... but not all of them, of course. So once again, I have failed. >_<
Like, see, here's another something interesting: Anthy actually has very long hair, but she always wears it up so it looks short, except in the following situations: when she's naked, when she's leaving Ohtori Academy in the last episode, and when she sleeps (BUT only after they move into Akio's tower). And she is never shown wearing her glasses when her hair is down and flowin'. Also, she's only naked when she's 1) socializing *ahem* with her brother, or 2) shown as the witch impaled by the world's hatred, which I consider her true form, and is only in the last two episodes.
What does it all meeeeean?! >_<;;
So basically, I no longer have a theory on Anthy's glasses. I did, but it didn't work, so I tried another and it didn't work either. But I plan to keep thinking about it. Those glasses HAVE to mean something. EVERYTHING in this anime means something, especially everything involved with Anthy and Utena, the two main characters. Heck, every detail of Utena means something significant, according to websites I've seen that claim you can tell someone's personality by looking at things about them like blood type, their birthday, and the colors associated with them. Everything ever analyzed about Utena has matched up with what her character is - the meaning of her name, her hair color, her rose color, her Zodiac, her birthday, her blood type, everything. According to analyses at websites I've found, almost all of them are involved with naivete, innocence, and/or strong devotion to loved ones. That is Utena all over. Coincidence? Probably. But still, makes you wonder if her creators (Chiho Saitou and Kunihiko Ikuhara... look them up!) knew all this stuff when they made up her character. But anyway... that's just to reinforce that there is nothing in this anime that doesn't have some meaning in the storyline. Even those ridiculous Nanami episodes about curry, a cowbell, and an egg have important roles in the plot. But, that's a whole 'nuther blog. ^_~ Maybe it'll be my next one, ne?
I can hardly wait. XD
But for now, I think I'll just enjoy conversing with the lovely Dumpling-Chan and Silfy-chan (if she fixes her computer XP), and then go watch some more Utena or play Threads of Fate. Cute game, that. Very colorful. @_@
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/18/2002 06:50:00 PM
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