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03 Oct 2006

Goodnight, Utena!

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I’ve finally put Utena to bed… so to speak. 39 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena was a slog, but worth it - mostly. I don’t really see why it couldn’t have been 13, or at most 26.

Well beyond surreal into silly, a lot of the time, but within the limitations of what seems at times to be a parody of John Fowles, the story was quite good, and completely redeemed by the warped-but-powerful ending. Utena is a female lead with a lot of power, and very human without descending into a lot of angst.

Very mild ending spoiler ▼

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7:08 pm iain

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One Response to “Goodnight, Utena!”

  1. Obsessivity » Blog Archive » Current / recent viewing on February 2nd, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    […] At episode 13, we can’t really be sure that “our” girls are on the right side of the fight - except that we know the other side are killers. It seems both sides are pretty evil, but what they’re doing is still very cloudy. Hervé’s being voiced by Koyasu Takehito makes it very difficult for me not to see him as a villain - he’s Touga in Revoutionary Girl Utena. […]

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