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I'll try to keep up with this. I watched the first 4-6 eps like half a decade ago and just never got back around to it. It was alright....I did not like chu chu though.
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I don't have much to say on the plot at this point, as a lot of it is symbolic and thematic without all of the necessary puzzle pieces being revealed to the viewers yet. Kiryuu Touga being voiced by Takehito Kotasu was a pleasant surprise. I like Wakaba, she's just a normal girl. Still not a fan of chu-chu existing, but I can appreciate how it gets used for slapstick and to fill screentime while characters exposit at each other. While a lot of the metaphorical stuff is definitely happening in the narrative itself, I do wonder how much of it is just chunnibyou bullshit the characters are making manifest: The student council definitely just feels like a group of adolescents who have gotten an ounce of authority and have deluded themselves into thinking that they are all-knowing, all-powerful, and destined to "break the world's shell" and cause "a revolution". While in actuality just playing stupid games as puppets to a higher authority (The World's End). The visuals are fun, and as others have said the shadow girls in every episode have been fun. I wonder if they're supposed to act like muses for the story, while functioning as a bit of a comedic element .
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For once, I actually caught up on time! Just a few general thoughts:
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EP 13 is a clip show. You've gotta do what you've gotta do sometimes when it comes to television anime on small budgets. With that said though, it's good to have this quick summary for all of the events so for going into the next arc, while also giving just a tiny bit of insight into Akio Ohtori/Dios(?). Also, would you look at that, he looks like the prince who helps Utena. It's also not lost on me that he shares the same name as the academy, Ohtori. The next two episodes seemingly set up the main framework for this arc, which as other posters have said, is pretty cool, having it framed as a confessional in a falling elevator, where the person confessing is urged to fall deeper and deeper into despair so they can be easily manipulated to do Mikage's bidding. Speaking of Mikage, his name seems really on the nose in terms of symbolism: kage, can be read as shadow or silhouette, and mikage can be read as "a spirit of the dead, a phantom". Lastly, the boy that Mikage wants to make the rose bride...is that just Akio putting on a girl's voice? They both look almost exactly the same  And yeah, it's seems obvious at this point that there is some sort of really gross incestuous relationship between Anthy and Akio, Doesn't seem very becoming of a prince to me!
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Unless you're European i guess
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ep 16 is just a really silly, fun time. not much I could read into it other than to clown on nanami and have some fun. ep 17 we revisit Juri's character, and while that's nice, it becomes pretty evident at this point that this season's duels feel hollow compared to the earlier ones: utena isn;t fighting for any virtue or character growth: she's just beating the villain of the week sent to kill her and Anthy. It feels like Ikuhara knows this, and is taking the piss out of it by having these duels wrap up very quickly, with no showy choreography or anything. Whether this is intentional or not, i'll leave it up to you to decide. I feel like that caries over into ep 18 too. And yeah, while the duel itself isn't really important, it feels like this episode might be a microcosm of the bigger themes in the series as a whole. It certainly feels like we are transitioning towards talking about more mature topics of sexuality at this point, having some really non-subtle gags including the banana one. Outside of that, i don't have much else to say. I forgot to mention it last time, but the change to the framing of the shadow girls and the dueling arena is nice, and especially how when the duelists are defeated, they fall into one of the body outlines signifying their defeat.
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Wakaba's desks had the leaf hair ornament on them. As others have said, eps 19 and 20 are a really good pair, and getting a wakaba/saionji focused ep was good payoff. I feel like i disagree with the analysis of the onion prince in the elevator confessional scene the other posters have said: they're saying he was rejected because he sucks or is "too normal". The way i interpreted it, with the butterfly on the wall not regressing, him saying he'll wait and that love will win out in the end, the elevator then reversing, and with mikage's words to him, is that mikage genuinely believes that he's a nice kid and doesn't deserve to be used as a tool for revenge. Ep 21 was kind of a nothing story to be honest, but i think it does a good job of reinforcing a central theme at this point, that people are willing to do anything, whether it be taboo, cruel, illegal, or irrational, in order to acquire what they love.
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