* Utena could have been so much cooler if she didn't fall under the sway of the bad guy. Also she suffers from becoming, like Mamoru and Tamahome before, the Bishounen Boyfriend. Which was kind of what she was going for.
In all honestly, I liked her, thought she was funny and suppoted her for challenging gender stereotypes, and then she basically becomes a cardboard cutout hero for a while, no longer the focus of her own series. She was like the mecha being piloted for the fight scenes and that's kind of it.
Quoting forever movie!Utena's "IT WAS YOU, WASN'T IT?!" though.
* Ugh. None, really? Maybe Dios, but it's more wanting to become him than wanting a romance with him.
* Well, Wakaba.
* Alas that my many unpopular opinions about this series are not really directly about Utena herself.
* Heh. I wish she'd killed Anthy and saved the Prince.
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Utena
Date: 2011-10-03 02:28 pm (UTC)In all honestly, I liked her, thought she was funny and suppoted her for challenging gender stereotypes, and then she basically becomes a cardboard cutout hero for a while, no longer the focus of her own series. She was like the mecha being piloted for the fight scenes and that's kind of it.
Quoting forever movie!Utena's "IT WAS YOU, WASN'T IT?!" though.
* Ugh. None, really? Maybe Dios, but it's more wanting to become him than wanting a romance with him.
* Well, Wakaba.
* Alas that my many unpopular opinions about this series are not really directly about Utena herself.
* Heh. I wish she'd killed Anthy and saved the Prince.