Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena
Revolutionary Girl Utena (both the manga and anime) focuses on
Utena, a strong, dynamic heroine who’s vowed to become a prince;
charging into battle and rescuing those in need. The Utena story
centers around her adventures at her new and very mysterious
school where students are fighting secret duels over a “prize,”
a girl named Anthy. The Utena story takes many of the familiar
manga tropes-è powerful girls, secret power struggles, and
complicated romance– to a rather dark and mysterious place. It
can also be very confusing, because the reader (or viewer) never
quite gets a complete picture of what is going on or why.  This
particular manga is a one-shot based on the Utena movie
(cleverly named Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie). The movie,
aimed at a slightly older audience, is separate from both the
original anime and manga. The movie is also rather strange.
Stranger, in fact, than the anime and that’s saying a lot. A
lot. (WIKIPEDIA has a rather compreh