Revolutionary Girl Utena 5
Posted: January 28, 2007 Filed under: Revolutionary Girl Utena 3 Comments »This was the last volume, and there were actually two bonus stories that I never read before. This was either because they didn’t actually appear in Animerica Extra or because I didn’t care to read them at that time. In either case, I read them and they were good (they featured characters who I assume were in the anime), but they weren’t part of the main storyline.
I understood the ending a lot better this time, and I still think it was really good. Apparently Akio, Dios, and Anthy are a race of… magical beings. Magical beings who watch over humans. This is never really explained further than that and has no actual bearing on the plot beside a link between Akio and Dios (which one suspects after Akio is introduced anyway), so I don’t feel like it’s a spoiler. The first time I read this I felt kind of betrayed since they spring that stuff on you at the end and it’s confusing, but this time I just kind of took it in stride. It makes more sense if you just take it at face value.
What happened to Utena at the end was what made me like it so much. The fact that the series had the strength to do that and still pull it off was what made me admire it the first time without knowing quite what was going on. One of the last lines of the series, Anthy’s search, made me like it a little less, but Anthy’s transformation and the fact that only Touga and she had memories… it was great.
Yes. I did like this series an awful lot. It was quite magical, and definitely a good girl’s series. Hooray for that.
ugh! thank you! im madly in love with the show, but no one has informed me on wether or not i should look at teh manga.
I’ve never seen the show to compare the two, but I did really like the manga mostly because of the ending.
I have seen the movie though, and I liked the story in the one-shot Adolescence of Utena manga better than the one in the movie. It’s been a while since I’ve seen either, but I remember them being almost unrelated save for the fact they were both alternate retellings of Utena.
hi! i now that this post was published 4 years ago but i just can’t find a way to read this manga, i mean this volumen of the manga i just finished the reading of cap 24 and its says “to be continued”… so i cant find the next chapter y i would love to read it, now do you know how can i find a way to read it online?