GOGAI, GOGAI!! Have YOU ever wanted to pay WAY too much for a t-shirt!?!? Well this week only: HERE'S YOUR CHANCE!!

This shirt is, let's say, inspired by a design sold at the 2013 Utena exhibition in Japan, and has been the stuff of fandom legend ever since....that is, until I grabbed one and made this design, from the original! Yes, that includes manually editing each letter because no fonts were a perfect match.

My intent was to launch it on Nanami's birthday on the 8th, however one of our two workhorse computers just fried (RIP Anthy's mobo, processor, and RAM, 2012-2026 honestly a great run tbqh) and welp OBVIOUSLY we now need about six trillion dollars to get enough RAM to run Firefox and Hades II and Photoshop.

So here's the deal! For the next week, until her birthday, the shirt is marked up by a significant amount, about $35 each. If you wanna help us out a little, that's an easy way to do it! If you want the shirt but not the extra out your wallet...just give it a week! After that point I'll drop the margin for us back down to the $5-10 we usually use.

That's all! Thank you, drive thorough! :)

Hello there! Only two more days to pay too much for this t-shirt. :) Thank you so so much to those of you that have already chipped in! <3

GOGAI, GOGAI!!!! Freshly cleaned cover to cover kibbles just in time for Adolescence of UTENA, playing in the North American theaters this weekend!!!!

Art of UTENA - 'Revolutionary Girl Utena' Making of Visuals Book

This 112 page color and black and white combined artbook from 1999 celebrates both the series and movie artwork and production process!! You can now peruse the totally reasonable copy above on the Empty Movement forums, or you can go hit the Internet Archive for the bonkers 8k pixels across per page version!!

One of the interviews featured in this book has already been translated, should you want to read more from Juugo Kazayama about script and storyboarding the series!

This artbook was an early source of some of the rarer pieces of Utena art, and has been part of the Empty Movement gallery for over 20 years! I'm hyped to finally share a copy of it that I think gets across the 'experience' of the book in person as best I could manage! The images have been descreened and selectively cleaned for legibility..a miserable process given the annoying repeating background that the scanner choked on. But my work is your win! Check it out, download it, share it, and enjoy it!!!! :D

happy utena movie dayyyyyyyy

GOGAI, GOGAI!!!! Freshly cleaned cover to cover kibbles just in time for Adolescence of UTENA, playing in the North American theaters this weekend!!!!

Art of UTENA - 'Revolutionary Girl Utena' Making of Visuals Book

This 112 page color and black and white combined artbook from 1999 celebrates both the series and movie artwork and production process!! You can now peruse the totally reasonable copy above on the Empty Movement forums, or you can go hit the Internet Archive for the bonkers 8k pixels across per page version!!

One of the interviews featured in this book has already been translated, should you want to read more from Juugo Kazayama about script and storyboarding the series!

This artbook was an early source of some of the rarer pieces of Utena art, and has been part of the Empty Movement gallery for over 20 years! I'm hyped to finally share a copy of it that I think gets across the 'experience' of the book in person as best I could manage! The images have been descreened and selectively cleaned for legibility..a miserable process given the annoying repeating background that the scanner choked on. But my work is your win! Check it out, download it, share it, and enjoy it!!!! :D

Empty Movement's Discord mod teasot recently acquired a stack of copies of production materials from the Utena movie. Out of 90 odd images, 37 were specifically of this kiss. I can't really sum up the vibe better than that!! Uploads coming soon. Amazing preview above!

NOW GO SEE THE MOVIE IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND

"...how boring reality would be if we lacked the sensitivity to recognize beauty in beautiful things."

Mitsuhiro Oikawa & Chiho Saito for H! Rockin' On Japan Magazine, July 1999

That's right! Did you know this movie manga artwork, that graced many a wall in the early 00s, is based on a real photo of movie Akio's voice actor and mangaka Chiho Saito, taken at the iconic Meguro Club Sekitei love hotel? Well, it is!

And you know what else? We translated the interview it came with! H! Rockin' On Japan is a music-oriented magazine, covering the Utena movie more from Oikawa's perspective. The queer vibes in the interview are off the charts, and it's clear as day that the shift in Akio's visual style from the series to the film is in no small part in response to Oikawa's involvement. This interview is a really neat look into the context around that change, and it's all thanks to translation by Nagumo and editing by Ayu Ohseki! I did not work this interview into the magazine pages, since they are text-dense anyway, so you can read the interview here at In the Mouths of Babes, or you can look at the high resolution magazine scans, complete with magazine cover and table of contents, here at the Bibliothèque! And as always, there's a ton more new Utena stuff to check out at Empty Movement proper!

GO SEE THE UTENA MOVIE IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND

Movie Version "Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse" DVD Jacket, March 3, 2000. By Shinya Hasegawa.

Scan from page 161 of the Hardcore of UTENA - Illustration Side, a massive tome I'm scanning cover to cover, slowly, in 6k, for Empty Movement's Bibliothèque, a scanned archive of print media relating to Revolutionary Girl Utena. When the entire book is finished, you'll be able to grab it in even larger 10k from Empty Movement's account on the Internet Archive!

GO SEE THE UTENA MOVIE IN NORTH AMERICAN THEATERS JUNE 21 AND 22, THANKS TO GKIDS!

Revolutionary Girl Utena, Episode 37: The One Who Will Revolutionize the World Production Process Scans of Shot 269: Utena's choice to be the fool.

Thanks again to Thanatos_26 for these scans and permission to clean, organize, and host them! Early drafts, initial sketches, and correction sheets are organized, layered on top of one another, and given additional comparison shots to the animation by me.

This is an incredible shot, one of the most emotionally loaded expression shots in the entire series, so it's awesome to get a peek behind the curtain of its creation. The stray hair just a little out of place seems so right, like this is a choice she pulled at it making.

Gogai, gogai!!! New chibis this way!!

Marakuji's Volume 3 collection, titled Masquerade, finally comin' at you hot off the scanners of feste and I, who once again worked together to get you the whole fleet of miserably expensive blind swaps! (The first volume, Tea Time, and the second, Birdcage, are of course also available there!)

What's different this time?? Well, the gallery systems on ohtori.nu no longer work in the backend. The time has finally come for me to retire the effort of maintaining a decades old gallery program and begin migrating the existing structure into a static website that I can hopefully keep up indefinitely. That will be a huge personal clusterfuck and miserable undertaking, but I'm currently working with some more modernly savvy Utena fans to make that happen! In the meantime, I certainly have no plans whatsoever to stop hosting new Utena artwork, and so that these new scans have a happy little landing site (more chibis on the way!) I uploaded them to the gallery system within the Something Eternal forum, which will now be the main space I add new scans.

Because chibis are something there aren't actually that many of to document, I went back and organized them by release, and added context about the merchandises they're attached to and more specific release information! So go visit these adorable new chibis and their full acrylic plates here, along with all their friends, in The Chibi Gallery!

Thanks again to feste for helping getting these scans collected up! I hope y'all enjoy them, and wish us all luck as we try to figure out how the fuck to make a static site out of galleries that are tens of thousands of imagesewhfuiywegfduyewgfdew