Last week, I talked about Sailor Moon and also delved a bit into Revolutionary Girl Utena. Today I want to go into it a bit more. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a gloriously weird funhouse mirror of shoujo and magical girl tropes directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. In it, the titular character Utena acts as a girl […]
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