Have you watched Revolutionary Girl Utena? You probably should. There’s a handy little thread over here where you can join past me going through the anime and shitposting because there are gonna be UNMARKED SPOILERS for the series in this LP.
@heyboots and I are going through this Saturn game I picked up in Japan, which is a visual novel/dating game where we play an original character during the what is apparently the Black Rose arc of the show. There’s also another new character in the mix, the mysterious Sanjouin Chigusa who knew our parents or something. Neither of us actually knows very much about this game because we’re playing this blind and just following our hearts in true Date Night style .
This game features domestic violence, violence, and probably other triggering stuff so tread carefully.
I’ll update every Friday.
Current Co-Commentators: @WordOnTheWind (Joins us Episodes 3-6 then 8 and the finale) @atinofbeans (Joins us Episode 7) @ChorpSaway (Joins us Episodes 9 and 10) Panda and Alice from the Imagine Me & Utena podcast (Episodes 11 and 12)
My good friend GNU Order (Episodes 13 and 14)
Noted Juri liker @Abbysayswords (Episodes 15 and 16)
My gaming crew friends @LoakaMossi and @Fefnir (Episodes 17-22)
If you wanna talk over this video game with us just PM me here because I am bad at LPs and pretty much just flying by the seat of my pants.
I like how you spent the episode having an in depth discussion about the characters and their dysfunctional relationships, and I’m just wondering if there’s a route in which you get to kick Touga, Saionji and/or Akio in the dick repeatedly. Any one of them, really, I’m not picky.
I noticed my audio is still kinda low compared to Jenner. I’ll make sure it’s a bit higher next time we record, need to pull the game audio down a bit too.
Utena’s status as a student is something that changes from medium to medium. In the movie, she’s a “transfer” student from the apocalypse world, in the anime she’s a non-transferred student, and in the manga she’s a regular transfer student, which is somehow the most surreal??
The first chapter of the manga has Utena talking to her aunt who she lives with in a normal world that exists outside of Ohtori (!), she confuses her aunt’s boyfriend for her prince, who she calls “Mister Licky-Lick (!),” and she transfers to Ohtori through non-fantastic means. She just learns about Ohtori Academy and fills out the paperwork, I guess. BTW, she learns about Ohtori through a coded message, hidden in letters that her prince sends her every year. This message is decoded by her boyfriend, who she promptly breaks up with. There’s kind of neat symbolic thing with that; she wipes away his tears the same way her prince wiped away hers, and that’s kind of cool.
Manga Utena manages to be super weird by being entirely too normal, comparatively speaking.
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another installment of Revolutionary Girl Utena! Next update Word on the Wind joins us and she knows nothing about RGU so look forward to that!
Apparently the new Blu-ray release of Utena in Japan included higher quality footage of the 1997 musical, so someone ripped that and grabbed the translation off of the garbage VHS rip that was up on youtube and smashed them together.
You can actually like, hear shit and make out people’s faces now.
UNMARKED SPOILERS
Night style .
This game features domestic violence, violence, and probably other triggering stuff so tread carefully. 
