Revolutionary Girl Utena is a 1997 Japanese anime television series
created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko
Ikuhara. The series follows Utena Tenjou, a teenaged girl drawn into a
sword dueling tournament to win the hand of a mysterious girl who
possesses the "power to revolutionize the world". Ikuhara was a director
on the television anime adaptation of Sailor Moon, and conceived Utena
in response to a lack of creative control in directing an adapted work.
Utena has been described as a deconstruction and subversion of fairy
tales and the magical-girl genre, making use of avant-garde and
surrealist elements to comment on themes of gender, sexuality, and
coming of age. The series received domestic and international critical
acclaim, particularly for its treatment of LGBT themes and subject
material, and has influenced subsequent animated works. In 1999,
Adolescence of Utena was released as a follow-up film to the series.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Girl_Utena>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to
launch an invasion of Isle de France, now known as Mauritius.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Isle_de_France>
1963:
Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-
Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831>
1972:
Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one
of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the
arcade and home-console markets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong>
2012:
In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted
to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
precipitant:
1. Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty,
impulsive, rash.
2. Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
3. (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast,
rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
4. (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid
in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
5. (archaic) Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong
manner; with foolish or rash haste”)
6. Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event;
specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental
or physiological condition.
7. (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a
dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precipitant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
--Rosalynn Carter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter>