Utena: The truth is, my protecting you was just for my own ego. And the night I learned about you and Akio, I thought that you had betrayed me. Even though you were suffering so much. After I had said we should help each other, come what may… I was the one who cheated you! I was the one who used you! I was the one who betrayed you!

When I was a little girl, my mama said to me, "You're the princess of the Onion Kingdom!" and I actually believed her. Tomato in the Mirror: Played with for Christmas Snow who gets the moment of revelation but it doesn't seem like it has sunk in yet. Eternity means lasting forever, right? For years, decades, centuries, millennia, eons, and on and on. My life may be just a moment, but.... Eternity means that this moment lasts billions of billions of years, without end. I.... I.... I want eternity.God Created Canon Foreigner: The Sega Saturn game was created by all the original TV series team, and so the two characters and the events in the game officially count as canon. Parental Abandonment: Charon was raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her by faking her death in a fire. Shout-Out meets Self-Deprecation when one of Starkweather characters insults Shadowgirls and it's creators here. Also, the artist tends to sneak in little Shout Outs to his friends in the art. Revolutionary Girl Utena - Wikiquote Revolutionary Girl Utena - Wikiquote Ever so gradually, however, ominous threads begin to appear – little creepy events that are perturbing in themselves, but don’t truly prepare you for the psychological roller-coaster that unfolds, as the novel resolutely morphs into a paranormal horror story. What Happenedtothe Mouse?: Christmas Snow being revealed as a half-human half-progenitor hasn't come up since the ritual near the end of Season One.Shrug of God: Director Kunihiko Ikuhara is infamously unhelpful — and sometimes deliberately infuriating— when it comes to explaining things about the show and even more so regarding Adolescence of Utena. Don't expect much in the way of straight Word of God. Probably best demonstrated with his statement about the difference between (Series) Utena and (Movie) Utena: "In the movie, she turns into a car."

The dub's first director, Jim Malone, allegedly knew very little about the show's story, characters, and themes, which explains the somewhat detached performances in the early episodes. The dub shows a marked improvement in quality once Anthony Salerno took over. People who like this comic also like: Lavender Legend, Cheer!, Metanoia, Cyantian Chronicles, The, Girls with slingshots

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The same booklet features an early design for Touga that had him depicted with short blond hair, while Saionji would wear glasses and have short green hair. http://www.brokenfrontier.com/headlines/details.php?id=3532 Broken Frontier Shadowgirls Anniversary report] I feel it’s hard for me to deal with a place where there are so many people. Somehow, they all start to look the same, and that frightens me.

leaving Ohtori] Now it's my turn to go. No matter where you are, I'll find you for sure. Wait for me, Utena. Hot Mom: Charon, and she uses it to her advantage. Chrissy as well, when she toned down the bitchiness. I found it an intriguing story because I wasn't really sure where it was going to go, which made it compelling. It's not very often that an avid reader gets a storyline that they can't see the likely outcome of. Birch writes the supernatural happenings in a way that is very believable - the way people react and behave felt like the way I might myself, if caught in a ghostly situation. Shout-Out meets Self-Deprecation when one of Starkweather characters insults Shadowgirls and it's creators here. Also, the artist tends to sneak in little Shout Outs to his friends in the art.Completely Different Title: Was released as Ursula's Kiss, its intended US title (see below), in various countries. to Akio] You really don't know what's happened, do you? By all means, stay in this cozy little coffin and continue to play the prince. But I have to go now. If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Played straight with Paul, who stopped Lin from killing the Bloodwatch member that almost Brainwashed him.

One day, Sally ventures (unauthorised, of course) up to the greenhouse on the roof alone. Or at least she thinks she's alone, until she sees Sylvia on the roof too. Sally hurries downstairs, afraid of Sylvia snitching, but Sylvia appears to be there as well. Good Is Not Nice: Played straight; one of the better examples is after Paul stops Lin from killing the Bloodwatch member and then hooks them up to their own brainwashing equipment before leaving. Said equipment is described to leave the victim in a frenzied drugged-out state. Parental Abandonment: Charon was raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her by faking her death in a fire.Good Is Not Nice: Played brutally straight, one of the better examples is after Paul stops Lin from killing the Bloodwatch member and then hooks them up to their own brainwashing equipment before leaving. Said equipment is described to leave the victim in a frenzied drugged-out state. Adults Are Useless: They're not. At least those that don't need to be rescued from a Fate Worse than Death. Or the ones working for the bad guys. In Memoriam: The anime's 15th anniversary DVD special edition was dedicated to lead VA Tomoko Kawakami, who passed away the previous year.