EP20: Revolutionary Girl Utena (pt. 2) and Adolescence of Utena

In which Alex & Cass discuss the last 16 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena and Adolescence of Utena, directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara  and produced by J.C. Staff.

Next month we will be discussing Kids on the Slope, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions. 

Discussed: alex has been hoisted, the exact definition of ghost riding, Empty Movement, expressing that akio is an adult, buying coffins in bulk, the biggest fucking mood of all time, making it naughtier, nine billion fold homoeroticism, taking horny pics with the bros, in bed shirtless with the bros, gondola, cable car, aerial tramway, aerial lift, cass was bumping their desk and they tried so hard to make the sound go away in post with filters and multiband compression but it just didn't work so sorry, this show has a bit of a problem with race, The Egg Episode, The Godfather, egg jail, Most Likely to Bowl Award, tradcath touga, having an egg fry by yourself in the middle of the woods, "eggs are normally something you eat", gay bed, gene, meme, scene, ligma, badminton content, candles, phallic symbol, anime feet dot blogspot dot com, big titty goth milf, spoon bending, horatio, hot boys are assholes, kare kano, something eternal, nihilism, absolutely inexplicable that we did not bring up kirkegaard at any point in this episode,what's up doc, a pincer attack on her feminine sensibilities,  living in a society, the world is a vampire, saionji t-posing to assert dominance, allegory, allegorier, allegoriest, hermaphroditism, tradcath akio, pretending to care about stars to pick up chicks, canned coelecanth, memory as a kind of immortality, Pathologic 2, The Bob Emergency by Jon Bois, Bob Cyclone, Bob Bob, Sophocles, 17776 by Jon Bois, Buddhism, impermanence, Utena as a bodhisattva, THE MILLION SWORDS WHICH SHINE WITH HUMAN HATRED, The Matrix Reloaded, disappearing when you can't pay your debts back, Linda, Christy, Sven, Japanese Student Movement, the difference between romance and romantic, a girl venturing into the world, different ways of conceputalizing revolution, Shit Life Syndrome, utena as a bernie bro, the folly of digital effects in contemporary anime, Every Frame A Painting - What Is Bayhem?, trying too hard to look like a lesbian, jumping out of the window because you can't find your car keys, if it sucks hit da bricks, Initial D, assuming you're the only one who can turn into a car, the power of friendship, bone wizards in the future, the most wonderful novels written by dan brown

Alex's Book Recommendation: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Cass's Book Recommendation: Little Fish by Casey Plett

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