demento-mori reblogged
I swear I focus on new things every RGU rewatch. This time I'm noticing more just how much Wakaba just really dislikes Anthy right from the beginning. Like obviously it comes to a head in Wakaba Flourishing, but like... there's this period of time in the first few episodes where all Utena and Anthy and Utena and Wakaba moments are separate (you don't get all 3 of them eating together yet) and pretty much every time Anthy comes up in conversation Wakaba is just really dismissive of her.
She does such a good job hiding her jealousy once they actually DO start interacting that it's easy to forget that the resentment isn't just building, it was boiling under the surface from the start
#:((#it makes it all the more sad bcos i think anthy geniunely liked wakaba to a degree.#wakaba gets characterized explicitly as an ally in adolescence.#shes the car that saves anthy from the tunnel and is driving the stuco to the real world#anthy generally seems happy when with wakaba and utena as a trio (such as the picnic and in the chairman's residence)#from memory i dont recall her ever doing anything to mess with wakaba outright (besides the leaf. which is more mikages doing)#she speaks positively about wakaba to touga in the greenhouse. a situation where (i believe) she was being geniune#aaaaaaaaaaaaa#wakaba and anthy make me really sad#they couldve been friends...#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#wakaba shinohara#anthy himemiya