some of the most painful Utena episodes

[mikogalatea]

Episodes 31 and 32 still hurt. Poor Nanami.

I want to throw more bricks at Akio. I've got ep 33 next, so I'll want even more bricks for that. Bastard.

Comments

Re: [CW: rape, CSA, incest, all the typical Utena things]

[sarajayechan]

It really is.

Yep, I noticed and I saw it when I was gathering screenshots from ohtori.nu. Touga seemed more into his act in episode 25, less empty inside.

My old headcanon about the birth parents was that the father really was a cold-hearted bastard who had no problem selling his kids off to a paedophile for... whatever it was he gained from it, whereas the mother didn't want it to happen but was either too powerless or too weak-willed to stop it.

...that makes way too much sense. I always thought both parents were just awful people, but the mother not wanting to do it would make for even more tragedy. I have this fic idea where Touga or Nanami sees their birth mother without realizing it's her, and she recognizes them but they don't even look each other's way and the mother realizes maybe she shouldn't try to reach out.