Random Utena thing written in response to something else kept for my notes

[kudasaru]

Good job noticing the importance of recycled animation in Utena. I think it also ties in to this image of ‘revolution’ not in the sense of social revolution, but in the sense of things revolving. It isn’t just the animation that gets repeated in Utena, imagery (time pieces, eggs, butterflies, cars, elevators, the rose borders around characters) are

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Good job noticing the importance of recycled animation in Utena.

[myselftheliar]

I shall now pretend this was all written directly for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[joe_chin]

Years ago, I vaguely remember you asking me once what one of the pieces was that was playing during one of the episodes (or I just blabbed about the name, I can't remember which). And I remember you jotted it down in a notebook on the off chance it was useful.

It just suddenly hit me how far you've come since you first mentioned you were writing a thesis on Utena. Wow...