PanicInStatic

Welp. The moment the castle on wheels appeared I cried. Seeing it at such a massive scale really puts into perspective how terrifying of a presence Akio is in her life. She has to get past something so incomprehensibly large that a single wheel is at least three times the size of her own vessel. And yet she hits the gas and plows through it anyway, because the castle isn’t real. It’s a facade, and Akio doesn’t have power over her anymore. Not in the real world.

you know, if Utena got the tadc character development treatment, we would get the final episode where utena forgives saionji(and the previous couple episodes would be for some reason dedicated to the development of their borderline romantic relationship while anthy gets sidelined, only briefly acknowledged at the end as utenas "best friend") and everyone else's issues get resolved off screen, and there would be a credits montage, where all the sudents stay in ohtori academy and play beach volleyball and dnd with akio. and there wouldn't be any sword fights, just a couple of shots of juri sadly looking at the locket or smth