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The Revolutionary Utena PhenomenonChiho Saito has drawn sh?jo(girl’s) comics for two decades, but when she teamed up with anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara (Sailor Moon) and a group of talented creators for Ikuhara’s new project, it ignited a firestorm of creative and imaginitive storytelling from which anime and manga has yet to recover. Now see the story that started the ball rolling!
Elegance is a way of life at Ohtori Academy. For close to one hundred years, the elite boarding school has values tradition and ceremony above almost everything else.
Into this academic milieu walks Utena Tnjou, a short-stressed teenaged girl who favors trim-cut boys clothing. Almost immediately, she finds herself embroiled in sword duels, knotty romantic entanglements and a string of shady alliances. There’s a cloud of mystery hanging over the campus of Ohtori and everyone Utena meets harbors a dark and twisted secret.
A liberal adaptation of the movie by the same name, The Adolescence of Utena veers wildly from its original source. More direct than the anime and more mature than the original manga series, this version of Chiho Saito’s fractured fairy tale blasts Utena straight into the iconic stratosphere.
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