Retrospective of Utena - Part Une: Creating a Revolution & The Student Council Saga

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When you think of Magical Girl or Shoujo anime, you normally think of anime and manga's that focus of very stereotypical feminine archetypes in it's presentation. And for the most part that is right.

But there's one amongst all of them that came from the 90's, in a landscape that was slowly coming out of a post-Evangelion world, where many were trying to "re-contextualize" what it means to be apart of a certain genre, but only one of them would set about to revolutionize it's genre for the better.

That series was Revolutionary Girl Utena. And in this retrospective look on the series, we look at the entire mythos of Utena, every single aspect of it from not just the series but it's expanded universe as well to answer the question of why it's so important today?

Starting off in this part with a look at the first thirteen episodes, dubbed "The Student Council Saga" as well as looking into the creation of Be-Papas as a collective.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction Une - Why is Utena so Important?: 0:00
Bepapas’ Formation & The Creation of Utena - 2:59
Episodes 1-3 - Our Introduction & Saionji’s The Worst - 9:30
Episodes 4-8 - Miki’s Muse, Juri’s Yearning & Nanami’s Duality - 23:22
Intermission: The Complexities of Utena’s Character Narratives - 37:29
Episodes 9-13 - Touga’s Power Play & Utena’s Journey - 43:11
Endcard - 58:56
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