"You have weird tastes. It's not good."

[snarp]

Getting close to the end of Utena!

I know that the symbolism in this show is pretty much continuous with reality, and I shouldn't question whether Akio and Touga physically seduce the people who get in the Doom Car with them. That's not the point!

But I do kind of wonder exactly to what extent we're supposed to believe that Touga and Saionji are doing it. Because based on the available evidence, Touga is the least straight male character in the series. His grounds for declaring himself the heteronormativity police are weak.

If we assume that Doom Car Reality is, in some sense, more real than physical reality, Utena hasn't actually slept with Akio yet.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

I assumed it was the least subtle phallic in the entire existence of the universe, including the rest of Utena, but that too!

[rachelmanija]

Phallic symbol. See, it was so unsubtle that it made the word "symbol" vanish!

[snarp]

That is like a metaphor for the whole series.

(I thought the thing with Anthy kissing the sword, while Touga held it at a certain angle, was the most unsubtle.)