Revolutionary Girl Utena Review

Overall Rating 9.0 - Exceptional

Literary Fiction type of show. I recommend for thinking viewer.

Absolute Fate Apocalypse - Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku (Modified Version)

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This is more of an analysis that a review, but I feel I need to write it here.

This is more than just a show. It elaborates on what traits and qualities appeals to the opposite gender. That is what makes attracts people in the opposite gender and how Akio and Anthy exploit it. How you can exploit it as well. It is however discreet requires you read between the lines to get most out of it.

It will tell you about about the big lie that you need to overcome in order to obtain love. However you have to be listen carefully to its discreet message in order to understand it. This anime ahs a lot of wisdom to share with those who can listen.

This is a story of a witch, who stole the prince from all other women of the world. Her name is Anthy Himemiya. 

In a way she is like a metaphor to anime itself, that managed to attract so many people, turning them into otaku who pick waifus instead of chasing girls. However there is more to it then just that.

That happened because Anthy understood what qualities make men like women. Because of that knowledge she managed to become a Rose Bride and now men fight for control over her. Now she enjoys attention of all men, who all want to have her.

She also endures hatred and envy of all women, who can't bear see men prefer her to them. Other women cannot understand why men want Anthy. They think that they are better, more mature and sexier than Anthy and deserve attention way more than she does. They bully Anthy over that. They also fight in duels over her hoping to win and supplant her.

However they could not win, either in duels or in romance. Nanami, Kozue, Wakaba, Juri all failed. They do not have timidness and kindness, girliness if you like, that is needed to attract men.

Because none of the other girls managed to understand how men think. None of them managed to realize that it is not Rose Bride's status that grants her all this attention but the above-mentioned personality traits. These traits attract men and allow Anthy to be a Rose Bride. 

Men like this kind of innocent girls. Saionji, Miki, Touga, even Akio are all like that. Even I myself once fought and won a IRL witch like that and then lost her somehow sometime later.

Anthy can skillfully exploit that. For example she acted just like Miki's sister used to when she was younger. That made Miki fight Utena over Anthy. 

Kozue wanted Miki back but just could not understand what it takes, so she failed.

Anthy often looks like a victim in the story. However in reality she is not truly innocent. She feigns innocence, timidness and kindness to win men, discreetly looking for the best suitor and eventually finding one in Utena of all people.

Akio is the only one who knows that Anthy is faking innocence. Because of that he is not completely enamored with her, but instead watches melancholically Anthy's fate.

Akio, he is male equivalent of Anthy. A man whom all the women want and men want to be like him. He is the proverbial prince Dias, the 'prince-charming' of all girls' dreams.

This show lets you see inside his mind. This is not a fairy tale and Akio is not out there to 'make every girl a princess', as this show puts it. Instead he uses his charm for his selfish ends. Among other things he seeks a girl he would deem perfect for himself.

Akio plays 'End of the World' role both for himself and Anthy, to find a perfect suitors for themselves. I mean of course they are not content to just play perfect suitors for all this other people. They wish to find happiness for themselves, not just grant it to others. There is nothing wrong with that.

Other people may be love them, but this felling in itself is selfish. Just because you love does not mean you can be satisfy your suitor. Their 'victims' are not that innocent themselves.

Akio wants to find a truly innocent and naive girl and notices that in Utena. He decides to take her for himself, in some way he leads her towards himself and almost gets what he wants. That girly version of Utena in the very last ark is perhaps what his idea of perfect girl is. One of the times when she is female uniform. Pure, innocent, willing to please, unspoiled - a perfect girl.

Akio almost gets her, but in the end Utena rejects Akio in the end and says Anthy's 'prince' instead. 

Show does ask you if her becoming a prince herself was such a good idea? She choose that, you do not have to.

Anthy would make a good gf or wife, if she did not abandoned Akio at the end of it all and stopped being a Rose Bride.

Utena as well, if she chose the path of Akio's princess at the penultimate episode, but she picked up a sword.

Among other things it is also a story about what is it like to actually be an attractive person, whom everyone wants. Naruto for example is the opposite, trying to win affection of girls, peers and his superiors. 

Akio and Anthy have more than enough of this. They have love of everyone around them, but that does not make them happy, in some ways they even struggle with all this affection.

This show also shows that different perfect 'princes' deep inside are not such a nice people. After all life is not a fairy tale and the more perfect the prince is the more he wants from a girl in return. 

I know cause I am an evil prince myself and expect a lot from any girlfriend wannabe. It that regard I can actually relate to Akio. Any girl who wants to be mine has to be prepared for a lot of sacrifices. Sacrifices from her for my sake.

This is not a fairy tale, however one can learn something important from it all.

Time and history only goes forward. Anime, moe and kawaii cannot be defeated, you can only learn from it and become one. Go full anime.