Revolutionary Girl Utena 4
Posted: January 27, 2007 Filed under: Revolutionary Girl Utena Leave a comment »Yeah, this series makes much more sense this time through. Lots of action and the series kind of comes to a head in this volume, I suspect that volume five is just the final battle and stuff winding down. The one thing I kind of wish was that the relationships were a bit more developed. The two with the biggest bond are Anthy and Utena, but the relationships with Touga and Miki were never really fleshed out. Attempts were made with Touga, but they didn’t get much of anywhere, and it was established that Miki liked Utena, but there was nothing after that.
I did appreciate that Akio courted Utena. I liked that, even though Akio turned out to be a total creep. There is also obviously a strong bond between Anthy and Akio, but, you know, it was just there to kind of mess up.
I liked that Utena was forced into a kind of role reversal, but I was so sad that she didn’t wind up getting what she’d been shooting for. This wasn’t as dramatic as it could have been either, but that happened at the very end, so maybe it’ll get played up in the next volume.
I liked this one so much that I wanted to read volume 5 right after, but I knew I’d never keep them straight in my head unless I wrote about this one first. So now I can read volume 5 with a clear conscience! Hooray!
