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TarsTarkas
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A Utena series without a real Utena or Anthony, doesn't sound real interesting to me at all. Utena was a hard series to watch, but I got used to its structure and really liked it. Not so much the movie.
But the real draw of Utena was Utena and Anthony. Without a real actual continuation of their story, there isn't much to draw me in. I am sure that there will be those that will love this, it's just not me though. |
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pachy_boy
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The biggest takeaway I personally appreciate is that the Juri/Shiori and Miki/Kozue relationship stories receive more satisfying resolutions. Juri spoiler[finds the resolve with her own strengths to move on from the girl who's clearly wrong for her without breaking down over it], and when Miki says his sibling relationship is still taking form, I took that to mean that while he can't return his sister's unhealthy affections he is equally unwilling to reject her either, and is simply willing to try to figure it out with her. And while a continuation of Utena/Anthy's story would have been intriguing, I found myself fine with not getting that--and what we do get between the two of them was still a lovely payoff in its own way.
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dm
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Reading this manga mostly just told me I need to watch the anime again (which was something I already knew, but this strengthened my resolve to do so).
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KENZICHI
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I know you say this isn’t a direct sequel, but I still wonder what you mean by save Anthy? She’s still stuck with Akio? She can’t leave the academy? And if she wasn’t saved then it’d seem to me we’d get a story about her too and what she’s up to. I’m still waiting for my volume so hopefully I get some clue. It makes me sad though to hear Utena becomes some sort of spiritual entity. That seems like such a sad and lonely existence, but I guess it’s bittersweet if that’s how she’ll save Anthy which was her main goal. Man I love Utena but I just wish I could get a definite answer on SOMETHING!
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residentgrigo
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I expected nothing as the original (well, not really) manga is mediocre but Chiho Saito did well this time. Or at least "Decent". I won´t pretend that this is canon to any version but she wrote a better and more coherent story than anything by Kunihiko Ikuhara since the TV version of Utena ended. Her art is also a winner, no complaints there.
Check the one-and-done out and don´t sweat the details but it´s kind of weird how 20 years pass but basically everyone regressed into empty husks. Juri got to re-fix herself by the end, I guess but we have been here before. All of this is hardly a sequel either which I am fine with. I have the feeling that no one who worked on Utena saw eye to eye on what the grand plot was by the end. The movie arguably proved that. Random stories in the world are all we can ask for at this point. |
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SHD
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I'm vaguely interested only because of Touga and Saionji... but that's about the extent of it. The Utena anime is one of my very favorite stories ever, anime or otherwise, but it's so self-contained and well-rounded, and ended so perfectly, that I never saw the need for a sequel.
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Arale Kurashiki
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There's also IIRC some weird implications of an unspecified disaster happening in the characters' childhoods? At least I think I didn't imagine that.
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GATSU
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Disagree with the review. Manga's absolutely unnecessary.
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