09-19-2008, 01:40 PM
My favorite anime is Revolutionary Girl Utena.
The show is about a girl, Utena who, as a young girl, met a prince after her parents died. The prince comforted her and gave her a ring to remember him by. Utena decided from that day on that she wanted to become a prince of her own. Now she is in school and meets other people with the same ring who all duel for the hand of the rose bride.
The show sounds like it's going to be full of action and swordfights but it's not. With 39 episodes there's quite a lot of character development. There's a lot of taboo-ish stuff in the show such as incest, homosexuality, incest, ect. Throughout the show we learn each character's reason for dueling and who the rose bride really is. Utena is a story of self discovery and growing up. I seriously recommend this to anyone even if they aren't a shoujo fan.
The show is about a girl, Utena who, as a young girl, met a prince after her parents died. The prince comforted her and gave her a ring to remember him by. Utena decided from that day on that she wanted to become a prince of her own. Now she is in school and meets other people with the same ring who all duel for the hand of the rose bride.
The show sounds like it's going to be full of action and swordfights but it's not. With 39 episodes there's quite a lot of character development. There's a lot of taboo-ish stuff in the show such as incest, homosexuality, incest, ect. Throughout the show we learn each character's reason for dueling and who the rose bride really is. Utena is a story of self discovery and growing up. I seriously recommend this to anyone even if they aren't a shoujo fan.
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