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== Utena Tenjou ==
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Voiced by: [[Tomoko Kawakami]] (JP), [[Rachael Lillis]] (EN)
The protagonist and namesake of the series, Utena Tenjou is a 14-year-old girl whose parents died when she was little. After a dashing prince saved her from depression, she vowed to become a prince herself. At the prestigious Ohtori Academy, she gets mixed up with a sinister and revolutionary dueling game played by the Student Council. She's very popular with the vast majority of the students at school, but not so much with the staff.
{{tropelist|Tropes revolutionized by Utena include:}}
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: More like accidental engagement though.
* [[Action Girl]]: Her duels take place almost [[Once an Episode]], and she's extremely athletic. And even outside of the duels, she's really tough both in personality and in physical ability. She can jump, she can punch, she's a demon on the basketball court, and she can beat trained duelists with broken swords, bamboo practice swords and a ''pitchfork''. And let's not get started on the truly ''epic'' move she pulls in the last episode...
* [[Badass]]
* [[Beginner's Luck]]: She has no experience in swordfighting but manages to beat Saionji, who's practiced kendo since childhood.
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* [[Blood Brothers|Blood Sisters]]: With Anthy.
* [[Bokukko]]: Refers to herself with the masculine pronoun "boku", fitting with her tomboyish nature.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Utena only wanted to become the prince she admired.
* [[Character Tics]]: Stretching, exercising
* [[Composite Character]]: In the anime, as a child, Juri witnessed her older sister nearly drown, causing a boy to attempt to save her but drown in the process; however, Juri's sister is saved by an adult. This backstory is given to Utena in the movie, but instead of an older sister, the drowning girl is a stranger (actually Juri, according to [[Word of God]]), and the boy is {{spoiler|Touga}}.
** In the movie-manga, {{spoiler|Utena ''is'' the girl who nearly drowned}}.
** And in the ''original'' manga, ''Utena'' is the "boy" who jumped into the river to save a girl and nearly drowned. {{spoiler|This is the one continuity where the rescuer actually survives}}.
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* [[Cool Car]]: Becomes this in the [[Gainax Ending]] of the movie.
* [[Custom Uniform]]: She says that she wears the boy's uniform, but no one in Ohtori has an outfit like hers.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: With the Shadow Girls in the Black Rose Saga.
* [[Determinator]]/[[Plucky Girl]]: In the last episode, she forces herself back up with her bare knuckles.
* [[Dreaming the Truth]]: In episode 34.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Ursula.
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* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]:
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]:
* [[First Kiss]]: After hearing Wakaba talk about this, she muses that hers must have been from Dios. In the manga and light novel, her [[Sacred First Kiss]] is stolen by Touga early on.
* [[Girl in a Box]]: At her parents' funeral. She finds a third coffin and hides in it, hoping to be buried herself.
* [[Godiva Hair]]: In the movie-manga {{spoiler|during her sex scene with Touga}}.
* [[Good with Numbers]]: According to Wakaba, she does quite well in math. Her grades start to slip, however, once she starts dueling.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Every time she gives her routine about wanting to be a prince so she can rescue princesses, she reiterates that she's still "Just a normal girl who wants a normal guy!".
* [[Hot Amazon]]: More of a "cute Amazon" since she's ''insanely'' dorky for a [[Tomboy]] aspiring to be a prince.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]:
* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]
* [[Innocent Inaccurate]]
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]:
* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]]: In the second ending sequence with Anthy.
* [[Magic Knight]]: Whenever she gains the power of Dios in a duel, or when Anthy powers up the sword.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "''Utena''" translates to "calyx", a set of specialized leaves that protect the petals of a budding flower. Note that Anthy's name means "flower".
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Her ring!
* [[Morality Pet]]: Arguably, Touga's. She seems to be the only person that he really cares about.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: At the very beginning, which doesn't make much sense since she's been attending Ohtori for at least one term prior.
* [[Once Upon a Time]]: "...there was a princess grieving over the deaths of her mother and father."
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Her Rose Signet, which she received few after being orphaned.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Her parents died when she was very young, leaving her an orphan.
* [[Passionate Sports Girl]]: Utena, a [[Tomboy]], naturally enjoys sports. Her personal favorite is basketball, and she's pretty damn good at hoops.
* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]: In the movie, she normally has short hair. When she transforms into her dueling outfit, her hair also grows out.
* [[The Promise]] Invoked with
* [[Proper Lady]]:
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: In the movie, which also has her hair being wavy as opposed to straight. It is also [[Compressed Hair]], as she keeps it under a hat when she;s not dueling.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]:
* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Not so much "sweetie" as "chivalric". That's what she wants to be.
* [[Save the Princess]]:
* [[She's Got Legs]]:
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:
* [[Take My Hand]]:
* [[Talking in Bed]]: She and Anthy frequently converse in their adjacent beds after they move into the planetarium tower.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]:
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl
* [[Underwater Kiss]]:
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Utena wears a pretty neat black-and-white suit and a matching dark hat in [[The Movie]]. She also wears her hair in a pixie cut instead of the series' long and wavy hair (though it does become long whenever a duel occurs for whatever reason).
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts?]]: She wears shorts as part of her [[Custom Uniform]], which is the part of her uniform the teachers seem to have the biggest issue with.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: The most naive character in the show.
* [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better]]: Brings one to her duel with Saionji. He shears it off, but she beats him anyway.
== Anthy Himemiya ==
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Voiced by: [[Yuriko Fuchizaki]] (JP), Sharon Becker (EN)
The Rose Bride of the dueling games, she becomes engaged to whoever can best her current betrothed in a duel. It is said that this person shall gain from her the power to bring the world revolution. She has little autonomy of her own and is unpopular with most students, but she is coveted by the duelists of the Student Council due to her role in their game.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Anthy include:}}
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]:
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* [[Barrier Maiden]]
* [[Beautiful All Along]]:
* [[Blood Brothers|Blood Sisters]]:
* [[Broken Bird]]
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* {{spoiler|[[But Now I Must Go]]}}:
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
* [[Compressed Hair]]:
* [[Damsel in Distress]]
* [[Designated Victim]]:
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Dios and Anthy crossed this in their backstories, which is what shaped them into Akio Ohtori the [[Magnificent Bastard]] and Anthy Himemiya the Rose Bride}}.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Her Rose Bride outfit is a sleeveless dress with detached cuffs.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Something that creeps out a lot of the people around her, especially her soon-to-be sister-in-law Kanae.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}:
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** And in the movie, {{spoiler|it's heavily implied that she was about to do this before Utena shows up in the Rose Garden before their dance}}.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Angie.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: She rarely shows any emotions other than a placid smile, and it's noted to be creepy by a few other characters. {{spoiler|Subverted, since she's more emotionally repressed than actually emotionless, and with all she's gone through it's not hard to see why}}.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: {{spoiler|Ha, ha, no. She only acts like one because she's resigned to that effectively being her role in the world. In reality, she's ''very'' opinionated and resentful of the way she's treated}}.
* [[Facial Markings]]:
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|The swords of hate, always stabbing her in every single uncovered inch of her body... combined with the understanding that taking them for Dios turned him into Akio, rendering all of her pain utterly pointless}}.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Subverted. The only safe thing she makes is shaved ice.
* [[Flower Motifs]]:
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]:
** Not in any over-the-top way, but she clearly has an affinity with animals, more so than with humans.
** It's also hinted that if you mistreat an animal, she'll calmly curse you [[Animals Hate Him|to be hated by all of them]]. You heard that, Nanami?
* [[Girl in a Box]]:
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]
* [[Godiva Hair]]:
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* [[Green Eyes]]
* [[Green Thumb]]:
* [[The Hecate Sisters]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Thanks to Utena' determination to save her, Anthy finally frees herself from Akio's endless quest for power via the dueling game and leaves him forever}}.
* [[Hidden Depths]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Human Pincushion]]: As a little girl, she was stabbed by dozens of townspeople for hiding Dios from them. As the Rose Bride, she's stabbed with a ''million'' swords in place of Akio while he tries to open the Rose Gate}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[I Will Find You]]
* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]:
* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]]:
* [[Lady in Red]]: Her Rose Bride attire. Anthy doesn't behave in a particularly sexual manner, but she is an object of desire for a few males in the cast.
** [[Woman in White]]: Her original Rose Bride attire in the manga
* [[Language of Magic]]
* [[Lethal Chef]]:
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Love Martyr]]:
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
* [[Meganekko]]: However, it's later revealed that she doesn't actually need glasses to see, implying that she only invokes this image.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]
* [[One-Note Cook]]:
* [[Perpetual Expression]]:
* [[Proper Lady]]:
* [[Purple Is the New Black]]:
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Moreso in the movie. The movie also renders her hair straight, whereas in the manga and anime, it's curly.
* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]}}:
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Shape Shifter]]}}:
* [[Shrinking Violet]]:
* [[Stealth Insult]]:
{{quote|'''Utena:''' Himemiya, you're type-AB, right? Let's see, type-ABs are elusive and seldom reveal their true feelings, huh?
'''Anthy:''' And you're type-B, right, Utena-sama? Type-Bs are self-centered and prone to misconceptions...
'''Utena:''' Yeah, sorry, okay.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[Strange Girl]]:
* [[Talking in Bed]]: She does this often
* {{spoiler|[[Tears of Remorse]]: Near the end for letting Utena get entangled so far and then stabbing her in the back}}.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]:
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Girly Girl to Utena's Tomboy.
* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]]: To the point that Kanae compares her to an alien, and Nanami thinks she's the scariest person she knows.
* {{spoiler|[[Walking the Earth]]}}: {{spoiler|With Chu-chu, after the [[Grand Finale]]. To search for Utena and for her real place in the world}}.
* {{spoiler|[[What the Hell, Townspeople?]]}}: Her backstory, where {{spoiler|the townspeople's response to her trying to protect her brother, who was pushing himself to the point of sickness in order to save everyone, was to ignore her crying and inflict the swords of hate on her. No wonder she's so messed up}}.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, again! She's more of a [[Broken Bird]]}}.
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]
* {{spoiler|[[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]}}: {{spoiler|Played straight and subverted, which tells you something about her character}}.
* [[Zero-Approval Gambit]]: Combines this trope with [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]. It turns out {{spoiler|she's an ancient Goddess-Princess who watched her brother, the God-Prince, being responsible for all the evil on earth. As a child, she decided to take the blame and let herself be punished by the world for all eternity. She subsequently spends the entire series serene and calm, while suffering the anguish and hatred of the entire world... for her now evil prince and the fear to change}}.
== Akio Ohtori ==
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a.k.a. {{spoiler|End of the World}}, a.k.a. {{spoiler|Dios}}
Voiced by: [[Jurota Kosugi]] (JP, series), Mitsuhiro Oikawa (JP, Movie), [[Crispin Freeman]] (EN, episode 13), Josh Mosby (EN, series and movie)
The highly attractive acting chairman of Ohtori Academy, as well as Anthy's brother. A powerful man who oversees the school from his tower.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Akio include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Affably Evil]]}}
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: To Anthy.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]
* [[Anything That Moves]]: If he can get results from sleeping with you, anything goes, and anything ''will'' go.
* [[Badass]]:
** [[Badass Baritone]]
** [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Usually in a red button-down shirt.
** [[Badass Long Hair]]
** [[Cultured Badass]]: In the anime.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: He's End of the World, the one who's been organizing the duels, forcing Anthy to be a prize in them, for the purpose of gaining her power. He ruthlessly manipulates Utena and his sister}}.
** {{spoiler|Also, [[Big Good]] as Dios}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: Of the two first arcs of the TV series}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Broken Ace]]: He once was the most generous and sweet person as Prince Dios, but his terrible experiences left him completely disenchanted and embittered. Now he's a [[Manipulative Bastard]] who manipulates everyone and everything... including Anthy, his little sister, who is pretty much trapped in a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], and ''he'' keeps her there}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Casanova]]: Basically anyone who's female and meets him is soon infatuated with him, which he invariably takes advantage of}}.
* [[Celestial Body]]: Used symbolically at the end of episode 25.
* {{spoiler|[[The Chessmaster]]: He's been directing the duels for who-knows-how long}}.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: ''Very'' deconstructed. {{spoiler|During his seduction sequences appears to be a ''perfect'' gentleman, but turns out to be the [[Enemy Without]] of a prince deity whose little sister Anthy has to suffer for his inability to cope with being divine. His seduction of Utena (including taking her virginity) is presented by him as the gentlemanly thing to do - kissing her feet, making her feel like a lady - it turns out it's all a ruse to make her into a very feminine, yet also completely passive bride for him to use in his cosmic plans, instead of her becoming a prince who could conquer him, and just like he did to Anthy}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]}}: {{spoiler|As Dios, which led to his downfall as he was unable to live up to the prince ideal}}.
* [[Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Or as fans dub it, the Akio Car.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]: In the movie. It's even taken one step further when it's suggested that his idealized self ''Prince'' Dios was never even real in the first place, but was just a creation of Anthy's magic}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil]]: He ''loves'' making these}}.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Dios and Anthy crossed this in their backstories, which is what shaped them into Akio Ohtori the [[Magnificent Bastard]] and Anthy Himemiya the Rose Bride}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Domestic Abuser]]: The entire series could be seen as a case study in how domestic abusers systematically destroy any resolve their victims have, eventually rendering them to the passive husks Anthy is at the beginning of the series. He undermines her confidence, treats her like property, cuts her off from any meaningful relationships, passes her around to any (potentially abusive) student that wins the duel, and rapes her weekly. Take out the duel aspect, and you could find the same behavior in a lot of domestic abuse cases}}.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Mike.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Sounds Deep]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Hero]]: He used to be a really nice guy}}.
* [[Foot Focus]]:
* [[Green Eyes]]
* {{spoiler|[[Instant Seduction]]: Have you met Akio? Congratulations, you're going to be having sex with him very soon}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}:
* {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard]]: '''Wow.''' Manipulates Anthy, manipulates Utena, manipulates the Student Council, manipulates a guy from fifty years ago so hard he ''creates an illusive reality''}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Master of Illusion]]: Uses the planetarium to create all the weirdness of the dueling arena}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Tells Utena he's named after [[The Casanova|Venus]], also known as the Morning Star, also known as ''[[Satan|Lucifer]]''.
* {{spoiler|[[More Than Mind Control]]}}: {{spoiler|His relationship with Anthy: on some level, he's emotionally twisted her into wanting to stay with him forever, even though both of them are perfectly aware she's utterly miserable. Tellingly, his ultimate defeat is Utena helping Anthy break out of his influence and realizing no, he needs her a lot more than she needs him}}.
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: With anyone he tries to seduce.
* [[Not So Different]]: In his speech to Utena in the penultimate episode.
* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Like Anthy, he seems to have been around since at least the Middle Ages}}.
* [[Renaissance Man]]
* {{spoiler|[[Samaritan Syndrome]]}}:
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Played for [[Fan Service]] and laughs.
* [[Sissy Villain]]: In the movie.
* [[Situational Sword]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: It's technically lavender, but still.
* {{spoiler|[[The Wise Prince]]}}: {{spoiler|As Dios}}.
== The Council members ==
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Voiced by: [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP), [[Crispin Freeman]] (EN)
The president of the Student Council and a notorious playboy. Touga Kiryuu leads each Student Council meeting with his signature speech, a permutation of a quote from the book ''Demian''.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Touga include:}}
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Would you wish a brother like him on anyone?
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Just as Saionji feels inferior to Touga, Touga is envious of {{spoiler|Akio's}} power (at least partly because he's glimpsed far more of that power than any other duelist).
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Touga is mostly into girls, but he also hits on Miki in an early episode, has quite a lot of subtext with Saionji, and {{spoiler|sleeps with Akio}}.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Kiryuus are very wealthy.
* [[The Casanova]]: He has many multiple girlfriends.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "[[Hermann Hesse|If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world's shell does not break, we will die without being born]]. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!"
** Also, in the Akio Ohtori Saga: "If your soul hasn't given up entirely, then you should be able to hear this sound, running about the Ends of the World. Now, come with us, to the world which you desire!"
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Touga seduces any girl he wants (three or four at a time), but cares for Utena, for his sister Nanami and for his friend Saionji. And yet, that doesn't stop them from being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] to them if the situation merits it. See the ending of Nanami's duel in the third arc for a truly horrific example of this.
* {{spoiler|[[
* {{spoiler|[[Disc One Final Boss]]: He's the main antagonist of the first arc and even defeats Utena in their first duel}}.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Tommy.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]
* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[False Friend]]:
* [[The Hedonist]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: In the manga.
* [[Hypocrite]]: In one of the fillers, he [[Mistaken for Gay|mistakenly believes Nanami to be a lesbian]] and gives a lecture that homosexuality is wrong. At this point, he is sleeping with
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]:
* [[Knife-Throwing Act]]:
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: With Utena. Also a [[Deconstruction]].
* [[Love Redeems]]: Somewhat in the anime. Played straight in the manga.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: In earlier manga illustrations, he has black hair with red bangs; this was later changed to red with a lighter front lock to match with the anime.
* {{spoiler|[[Not Blood Siblings]]}}:
* [[Rape as Backstory]]:
* [[Really Gets Around]]: He will sleep with any girl, it seems.
* [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [[Fan Service]] or [[Fan Disservice]], depending on how you see it, played up to the point of parody.
* [[Smug Snake]]: He ''is'' very handsome, charming, and manipulative... but ultimately, he's a horrendous [[Jerkass]] even to his sister, and he can't hold a candle to {{spoiler|Akio}}.
* [[Something About a Rose]]
* [[Student Council President]]: According to the game, it's only because he's the oldest.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]:
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Voiced by: [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] (JP), Mandy Bonhomme (EN)
An incredibly skilled duelist with high levels of political power over the students and teachers, and the captain of the fencing team. Despite her confidence, she is still a soft and vulnerable person on the inside.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Juri include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]: She's the captain of the fencing club and gives Utena a really hard time in their duels.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: In the manga.
* [[Badass]]: Just based on her performance against Utena, and contrasting that with everyone else's, one could argue that she's the best fighter in the whole series.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: Juri's typical attire is gender-neutral, and she does model gowns when not wearing the Student Council uniform, but her cool, icy bearing and fierceness arguably lead to her giving off this impression.
* [[Broken Bird]]: She's been carrying a torch for Shiori for a long time, even though Shiori has deliberately hurt her out of envy.
* [[Clingy MacGuffin]]: Subversion: {{spoiler|she throws her locket into a lake in one episode; by the end of that episode, it's back with her again. However, she ends up finding it because the locket was planted there, not by sheer chance}}.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Miki, at least.
* [[Death Glare]]
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* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Julie.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]
* [[Expy]]:
* [[Gray Rain of Depression]]
* [[His Story Repeats Itself|Her Story Repeats Itself]]
* [[It's All Junk]]
* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: Refuses to believe in miracles to try and hide her emotional weaknesses. She's pretty pissed when Utena wins their first duel with an ''insane'' coincidence.
* [[Lady of War]]: Her elegance and maturity elevates her to this rather than [[Action Girl]]. In her duel with Utena, she effortlessly parries the latter's attacks with a very casual expression.
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: In episode 7.
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]:
* [[Not So Stoic]]
* [[The Ojou]]: Implied to possibly be even richer than the Kiryuus, based on the way she casually one-ups Nanami at the beginning of episode 16.
* [[Princess Curls]]
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: In the movie.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption in the Rain]]: Utena unintentionally striking and destroying her locket in their second duel symbolizes the freedom from the most toxic, one-sided relationship in her life, where a heavy downpour of rain then ensues}}.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Shows up in her flashbacks.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]:
* [[Shower of Angst]]: Episode 17.
* [[Slave Collar]]:
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Juri/Jury.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]:
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]:
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Voiced by: [[Takeshi Kusao]] (JP), Jack Taylor (EN)
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Saionji include:}}
* [[Always Someone Better]]: No matter what he does, Touga just seems to be one step ahead of him.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: He claims to love Anthy, but his behavior is more in line with ''this''. In fact, he abuses her physically before Utena defeats him.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: In fillers, and [[Take That, Scrappy!|it's]] ''[[Take That, Scrappy!|cathartic]]''.
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: In every continuity, his physical abuse of Anthy is what spurs Utena to try to save her.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Kevin Simon.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]:
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]:
* [[Innocent Inaccurate]]
* [[Jerkass]]:
** [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: He's actually one of the more perceptive members of the main cast, but it's not like people listen to him (for understandable reasons)...
* [[Kendo Team Captain]]
* [[Loin Cloth]]:
* [[The Masochism Tango]]:
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Except for when he gives a [[Slasher Smile]].
* [[Pet the Dog]]:
* [[Purple Eyes]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]:
* [[Slasher Smile]]:
* [[Smug Snake]]:
* [[This Cannot Be!]]:
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Uke]]:
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: The younger Saionji we see in episode 9 wasn't halfway as horrible as the teen Saionji we met.
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Voiced by: [[Aya Hisakawa]] (JP), [[Jimmy Zoppi]] (EN)
A piano player and genius, and genuinely more friendly to Utena than the other members of the Student Council. He's constantly timing things with his stopwatch for unknown reasons.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Miki include:}}
* [[Character Tics]]: Timing his stopwatch. NOBODY KNOWS WHY, especially with Ikuhara's habit of leaving his answers vague or deliberately off-base. A good theory though is that he is timing the length of the dialogue from whoever spoke right before.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release makes Mickey his actual name.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: In the manga only, he kisses Utena while she's taking a nap.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Besides his fangirls, Touga hits on him as early on as the fifth episode, and his piano teacher is implied to have a less than savoury interest in him.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: To Utena. The rest of the Student Council comes around at some point or another, but Miki and her are buddies from very early on.
* [[Half-Identical Twins]]:
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]:
{{quote|'''Nanami:''' Hey, hey, by the way... how did it feel?
'''Miki:''' How did what feel?
'''Nanami:''' You know what I mean... did it hurt?
'''Miki:''' *
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]
* [[Just Friends]]: With Utena.
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: His friendship with Juri has some hints of this; fanon and fanfiction have been known to take this in non-platonic directions
* [[Lonely Piano Piece]]: He often plays "The Sunlit Garden" alone, remembering how he used to play it with Kozue.
* [[Loving a Shadow]]: At least in the beginning, his feelings towards Anthy stem from the fact that she reminds him of Kozue when she was younger
* [[Luminescent Blush]]:
* [[Nice Guy]]:
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[The Piano Player]]
* [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl|Shy Blue Haired Boy]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]:
* [[Signature Song]]: "The Sunlit Garden", which was composed by Miki [[In-Universe]]. It serves as more than that though: it's a leitmotif of the show, and played during key scenes that invoke certain memories, whether real or imagined.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Taking college classes in seventh grade!
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: "''Miki''" means "trunk" while "''kozue''" means "treetop".
* [[Twincest]]:
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]:
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
===
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Voiced by: [[Yuri Shiratori]] (JP), Leah Applebaum (EN)
A slightly late addition to the council, Nanami is the younger sister of Touga Kiryuu. Generally an immature person with a grudge against Anthy. Nanami frequently is the subject of the show's sillier episodes.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nanami include:}}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Being the younger sister of [[Student Council President]] Touga and an [[Ojou]], she constantly flaunts her superiority over others and has a [[Girl Posse]] to help her keep other students from crossing her.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]
* [[Animal Motifs]]: In one episode, she thinks she's turning into a cow. In the movie, she actually ''is'' a cow.
* [[Animals Hate Him|Animals Hate Her]]: Might be due to a curse laid by Anthy, the local animal lover.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Is tricked by Anthy into putting on a "fashion bell" that gradually turns her into a cow.
* [[Big Brother Attraction]]:
* [[Big Fancy House]]: They hold balls there.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Oh ''boooy'', does this girl have a bad day:
* [[The Cassandra]]:
* [[The Chew Toy]]: In fillers; even moreso than Saionji!
* [[Children Are Innocent]]:
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She's rather merciless to anyone she feels is getting between her and Touga.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]:
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Both a sword and a knife. {{spoiler|For whatever reason, she only has the sword during her duel in the third arc, however
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Nanette.
* [[Egg Sitting]]: For the egg that she apparently laid. She gets really attached to it.
* [[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry]]
* [[Evil Phone]]:
{{quote|'''Nanami:''' What time do you think this is, moron?
'''Nanami:''' Who is this? At least give me your name.
'''{{spoiler|Akio}}:''' The Ends of the World. Kiryuu Touga is waiting for you.
* [[Expy]]: Of Chitose Fujinomiya from ''[[Goldfish Warning]]'', of all people. A spoiled rich blonde girl {{spoiler|with dead parents}}, who declares herself head of the student council, who has all sorts of animal problems, whose classmates have attempted to make her wear a bell, and who is willing to take her desires to impress others to a farcical extent. Both are a little less [[Genre Savvy]] than their fellow cast members, but end up being made of sterner stuff than you'd think. Ikuhara worked on both series, so this isn't too surprising.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Becomes this in the third arc.
* [[Girl Posse]]: Aiko, Yuuko and Keiko.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: When Nanami is trying to embarrass Anthy [and win Miki's affection] by planting weird stuff in her room. She envisions each ploy going off without a hitch, only to have them fail because Anthy ''is'' already keeping weird stuff in her room. And Miki finds it cute.
* [[Important Haircut]]
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]:
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: When Touga gets hurt in the Student Council Saga, Nanami is quick to blame Utena and Anthy for her brother's injuries.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: When she takes care of an egg in the anime, she asks Touga if he prefers boys or girls [she's talking about the gender of whatever is inside the egg]. He believes that she is talking about his sexuality and answers "Girls, obviously", which then Nanami replies with "Really? Me too". Cue a lecture about "Homosexuality is wrong" by [[Hypocrite|Touga]].
* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]: Her signature laugh.
* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: When she takes over as [[Student Council President]], she gains a new, yellow, military-style uniform.
* [[The Ojou]]
* [[Rich Bitch]]:
* [[Show the Forehead]]
* [[Skintone Sclerae]]: It's a bit inconsistent in the first arc, however.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]:
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: She's a [[Rich Bitch]] who is used to being accommodated.
* [[Third Person Person]]:
* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]:
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]:
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]:
* [[Yandere]]:
==
===
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Voiced by: [[Yuka Imai]] (JP), Roxanne Beck (EN)
Utena's best friend at the onset of the series, Wakaba is an eccentric girl who has a clear obsession with the protagonist. However, it's her crush on Saionji that kicks off the plot.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Wakaba include:}}
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Poor girl is madly in love with a guy who is openly abusive to women.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]:
* [[Cute and Psycho]]
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Wanda.
* [[Genki Girl]]: To the point that she almost knocks Utena out of windows.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]:
* [[The Glomp]]: She does this to Utena a lot, almost knocking her out of a window.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Thinks she's not nearly as great as Utena is.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]
* [[Love Letter Lunacy]]: She sends Saionji a love letter. [[Kick the Dog|He scoffs it, and it ends up put on display and mocked by other students]]. Poor Wakaba collapses crying, and Utena steps in to defend her honor... via challenging Saionji to a duel.
* [[Ms. Exposition]]: Her role in the first arc is basically to introduce our main characters to Utena. Later on, she [[Character Development|becomes a more complete character]].
* [[The Nondescript]]: And she's painfully aware of it.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Stepford Smiler]]}}
===
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Voiced by: [[Chieko Honda]] (JP), Roxanne Beck (EN)
Miki's twin sister, a sexual and in her words "impure" girl who has a complicated and unhealthy relationship with Miki. She refuses to let him become romantically involved with anyone, but intentionally tries to get with everyone in order to aggravate him.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kozue include:}}
* [[Attention Whore]]: Deconstructed: her inferiority complex with regards to her brother makes her think that negative attention is the only kind she can get, hence her promiscuous behaviour.
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Kozue in the manga was a very different character from Kozue in the anime, and nowhere near as warped. Basically, she was just bratty and overprotective of Miki, and she certainly didn't act promiscuous or hurt anyone who would get close to him.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: In the manga, and overtly so.
* [[Creepy Twins]]: Miki is not creepy at all (unless you're the type to [[Fridge Horror|overthink some things...]]), but Kozue ''more than makes up'' for that!
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Becomes one of these in the manga and light novel, forcing Miki (who, in these versions, had been completely opposed to the dueling game beforehand) to duel against Utena in order to save her.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Show attention or attraction to her brother around her, or worse, hurt him? You're in for it big time.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Chris.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: When Miki was unable to attend their recital, not only was it revealed Kozue was a sub-par player on her own, but being alone in front of the crowd clearly traumatized her. And while Miki is the series' [[Nice Guy]], he hasn't treated her with the same affection since she stopped playing the piano and [[Loving a Shadow|projects her childhood self]] onto Anthy. No wonder the girl has [[Yandere|issues]].
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Don't take her brother's attention from her. Just... don't.
* [[Half-Identical Twins]]:
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother|Knight Templar
* [[The Nondescript]]:
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: See Miki's section. Kozue isn't exactly fond of their parents.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: She invokes this to get Miki's attention.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]:
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: "''Kozue''" means "treetop" while "''miki''" means "trunk".
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Twincest]]: Implied, particularly in the movie.
** More blatant in the 20th anniversary manga. Wherein Kozue is openly attracted to her brother, going so far as to try kissing him in his sleep (she was rejected), and actually kissing him when she came to him in the middle of the night, claiming that her husband had abused and potentially sexually assaulted her, claiming she was in love with another man. It was to the point that, after the second mentioned rejection by her brother, she went into a state of catatonia.
* [[Yandere]]: Over [[Twincest|Miki]].
===
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Voiced by: [[Kumiko Nishihara]] (JP), [[Lisa Ortiz]] (EN)
A girl who Juri has a crush on. Shiori, on the other hand, has a bizarre resentment for Juri, and desperately tries to gain power over her in any possible way.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Shiori include:}}
* [[Attention Whore]]: Shades of this in her character, though it's more like she just wants positive attention from someone who can actually make her feel good about herself.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Due to her cripplingly low self-esteem.
* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]:
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: When she {{spoiler|loses her Black Rose duel}}.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: In the movie. While trying to ram Anthy off the road, she doesn't seem to notice that she's about to crash into a fork in the road.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Sally.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]:
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Truthfully, this is the ''least'' of the problems between Juri and Shiori.
* [[It's All About Me]]: In the movie, when, after she becomes a car, she rants to Anthy that the only who deserves to escape from Ohtori is "beautiful me. Me. Me. Me! Me! Me, me, me, me, ME!!!".
* [[The Nondescript]]: Considers herself to be plain in comparison to the beautiful Juri.
* [[Pure Is Not Good]]:
* [[Purple Eyes]]
* [[Red String of Fate]]: As seen in Juri's past memories of her in episode 7.
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: When Juri tries to warn her away from Ruka because she's worried about her, Shiori misinterprets her words as jealousy and thinks she's awful for it.
* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: In the movie, as she's recounting her so-called relationship with Touga
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]:
===
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Voiced by: [[Ai Orikasa]] (JP), Elizabeth Tarpon (EN)
Akio's fiancee and the heir to the bloodline Ohtori family. Although she loves Akio, she is highly disturbed by Anthy, seeing a lot of passive-aggressiveness in her behavior towards Kanae.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kanae include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Her mother, who seems to care for nothing but herself {{spoiler|and sleeps with Kanae's fiance}}.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: To Akio.
* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|At the end of her duel}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]] → [[Cute and Psycho]]: When this girl snaps, she ''snaps''. Being practically {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape]]d by Mikage and Mamiya}} did ''not'' help.
* [[Dark Mistress]]: Heavily deconstructed.
* {{spoiler|[[Disposable Fiancé]]: She's introduced as Akio's fiancee, but Akio uses her power, cheats on her with everyone including her mother and maybe even literally disposes of her}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Out of all the duelists, Kanae is the only one not shown in the [[Book Ends]] montage towards the end. The last we see of her is, well... see [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]] below}}.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Kate.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]:
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]:
* [[The Ojou]]: The [[Spoiled Sweet]] type.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: She's really paranoid about Anthy due to the latter's [[Stepford Smiler]] nature.
===
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Voiced by: Akira Nakagawa (JP), Mandy Bonhomme (EN)
The second-in-command to Nanami's [[Girl Posse]].
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Keiko include:}}
* [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]]: Arguably her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Cinderella Circumstances]]: Subverted. At first, Keiko seems to follow this tale straight to the point of parody, Nanami being a sorta "evil stepmother"... {{spoiler|But then her attitude to her "prince" appears to be much more "rose-bridish" than "cinderella-esque". And as she gets close to Touga at last, she switches roles with Nanami, starting to humiliate her. To crown the subversion, she ends up beaten and "princeless"}}.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: After snapping.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Kelly.
* [[False Friend]]: Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
* [[Girl Posse]]: A member of Nanami's posse, along with Aiko and Yuuko.
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: Does this once after Nanami makes her miss out on seeing Touga at a party.
* [[The Nondescript]]: Taken to new heights when the audience realizes that Utena doesn't even know her ''name'' after she duels her. The other two members of her [[Girl Posse]] have similar names as she does also.
* [[Together Umbrella]]:
===
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Voiced by: [[Akiko Yajima]] (JP), [[Ted Lewis]] (EN)
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mitsuru include:}}
* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Deconstructed, as his innocence ends up being quite creepy at times.
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[The Chew Toy]]:
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: {{spoiler|In his Black Rose episode, he attacks Utena before she can even draw the Sword of Dios; he also puts to good use the intrinsic advantages of dual-wielding against someone with a single weapon
* [[Creepy Child]]: Has a cheerful demeanor, but initially places Nanami in a series of deadly situations [[Rescue Romance|so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''. {{spoiler|Also qualifies during his tenure as a Black Rose duelist
* [[Dual-Wielding]]:
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Mitch.
* [[Indirect Kiss]]:
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]:
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: A clipshow episode shows Tsuwabuki following and spying on Nanami since the start of the series. Which leads to him plotting to make her fall in love with him. Surprisingly for this anime, it's only played for laughs.
* [[Yandere]]:
===
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Voiced by: [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] (JP), Frank Frankson (EN)
A boy who Wakaba knew when she was younger. After he arrives at Ohtori during the events of the series, Wakaba continues referring to him by the nickname of "Onion Prince", much to his embarrassment.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Tatsuya include:}}
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: To {{spoiler|Wakaba}}. {{spoiler|Upon hearing him confess, Mikage rejects him for the Black Duels and sends him home}}. And immeduately afterwards, {{spoiler|he uses said knowledge to put Wakaba as the next Black Duelist in line}}.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: "Prince Onion". To clarify: in Japanese, referring to something as onion-make means it's shoddy or second-rate.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]:
===
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a.k.a. {{spoiler|Professor Nemuro}}
Voiced by: [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] (JP), [[Dan Green]] (EN)
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type III]].
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: Of the Black Rose
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]: Possibly. It isn't clear whether or not he died in the fire he started at Nemuro Hall years ago, though the fact that he hasn't aged since then may indicate that he's a ghost of sorts}}.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]:
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Madness]]}}: {{spoiler|Seeing his beloved Tokiko seduced by Akio and the death of Mamiya made him crack, ''big time''}}.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Sonny.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: Nemuro Memorial Hall. He does his thing in an elevator decorated with pictures of butterflies (in different stages of development) and a leaf, which leads to a massive underground mausoleum where the bodies of a hundred duelists are stored.
* [[Expy]]: Of Fiore from the ''[[Sailor Moon]] R'' movie, which Ikuhara also directed. In addition to their appearances and role in the narrative, they also have the same seiyuu [[Hikaru Midorikawa]].
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Memories]]: His memories of Mamiya and what really happened to Nemuro Hall}}.
* [[Foil]]: To Utena, pink hair and all. Utena is straightforward and well-meaning; he is manipulative and cruel. They have some similarities too: see [[Shadow Archetype]] and [[Spear Counterpart]] below.
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: This is reversed with him, who is unable to clearly perceive things ''after'' he loses his glasses.
* [[I Am What I Am]]
* [[Indirect Kiss]]:
* {{spoiler|[[I Reject Your Reality]]}}
* [[Loving a Shadow]]:
* [[MacGuffin]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: How he creates Black Rose duelists.
* [[Mind Rape]]: How he manipulates the Black Rose duelist candidates, via making them tell him their deepest traumas and frustrations and using said knowledge to recruit them to his side. It's a frighteningly good use of the "Mundane" methods.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: His entire shtick with the black roses.
* [[Not So Different]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: ''Maybe''. The end of the Black Rose Saga suggests he was [[Dead All Along]], but reality seems to get overwritten at that point. It's theorized that he might be a self-propagating mental projection, though you may as well just call that a ghost. More confusingly, his flashback scenes don't even match up with what we know about the timeline from elsewhere}}.
* [[Pet the Dog]]
* {{spoiler|[[Playing with Fire]]}}:
* [[The Professor]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Ret-Gone]]}}:
* [[Rose-Haired Girl|Rose Haired Guy]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Shadow Archetype]]:
* [[Signature Move]]:
* [[Single Tear]]
* [[Spear Counterpart]]: To Utena: pink hair, attached to a submissive person in an engagement type of situation (whose looks and names are quite similar) motivated by idealized memories.
* [[Spooky Photographs]]
* [[The Stoic]]:
* [[Teen Genius]]: A professor at just 18.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Man could ''really'' have used one. He also functions as a twisted version of a therapist in the Black Rose Saga, urging the students who visit him to confess their psychological problems. Of course, having Mikage listen to your issues is ''really'' not a good way to solve them.
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}:
===
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Voiced by: [[Maria Kawamura]] (JP), [[Liam O'Brien]] (EN)
Mikage's associate who is assisting him with the growing of roses for his duelists. His purpose is to be the new Rose Bride in Anthy's place.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mamiya include:}}
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Impersonation]]}}:
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Miles.
* [[Facial Markings]]:
* [[Green Eyes]]
* [[Identical Stranger]]:
* [[Ill Boy]]
* [[Spear Counterpart]]:
* [[The Stoic]]:
* [[Unperson]]:
===
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Voiced by: [[Noriko Hidaka]] (JP), Tara Jayne (EN)
Mamiya's older sister, who brought Mamiya to Ohtori several years ago in order to try to cure his fatal illness.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Tokiko include:}}
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: To {{spoiler|Nemuro, once she sees him burn down a certain building}}...
* [[Beauty Mark]]
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]:
* [[Promotion to Parent]]:
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
== Other characters ==
=== Mrs.
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Voiced by [[Yoko Soumi]] (JP)
Kanae's mother, the chairman's wife, and {{spoiler|yet another person in the series sleeping with Akio}}.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mrs. Ohtori include:}}
* [[Christmas Cake]]: A ''harsh'' deconstruction of one.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: In a series that loves playing with princess tropes, she represents what happens when the princess grows up, gets older {{spoiler|and is still unfulfilled}}.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: We never see her eyes while she's on screen.
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: An almost textbook version of this trope, since she's an older woman trying to reclaim what's left of her girlhood in the worst possible way.
* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]:
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]:
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]:
===
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Voiced by: [[Nozomu Sasaki]] (JP), [[Wayne Grayson]] (EN)
A former member of the student council who left due to a severe illness. After the Black Rose Duels end, he returns to Ohtori with a plan in mind.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Tsuchiya include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Back for the Dead]]: He's terminally ill when he returns to the school}}.
* [[The Casanova]]
* [[Hands-On Approach]]: He corrects the fencing students in a very suggestive way.
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: He loves Juri. Juri is a lesbian. Do the maths.
* {{spoiler|[[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: To Juri, even if it means making her hate him}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Jerkass Facade]]}}: ''Maybe''. In retrospect, every action he took was to {{spoiler|free Juri from her unhealthy bond to Shiori}}, and there's a good chance he was {{spoiler|making Juri hate him on purpose}}; however, not all fans feel that the ends justified the means, especially given that his actions include {{spoiler|''sexually assaulting Juri''}}.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Between him, Shiori and Juri.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Subverted. At first, we're led to believe he's another manipulative prick just like all the other male leads, but by the end of Juri's duel, it's revealed that {{spoiler|everything he did was to discredit Shiori and free Juri from her self-destructive obsession with the girl}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]}}: {{spoiler|Knew that he'd die and had his days numbered, but he still used this to his advantage to force Juri out of her vicious cycle}}.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
===
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Voiced by: [[Maya Okamoto]]
The antagonist of the "Someday My Revolution Will Come" Sega Saturn game. Chigusa is very masculine and hates the idea of girls being passive, as she prefers strong and powerful girls.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sanjouin include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]: Unlike Mikage, whose status was ambiguous, Chigusa is explicitly stated to have died in the fire at the fencing hall 15 years ago
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Gets her share of squealing from fangirls when she's in class, and Kozue is even seen dating her at one point.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Completely subverted in her mind. Chigusa ''hates'' passive girls that she perceives to be "princesses
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[God-Created Canon Foreigner]]: The Sega Saturn game was created by all the original TV series team, and is officially counted as canon.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Chigusa identifies with the Evil Queen from
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: If the protagonist asks her if she has a girlfriend at one point, Chigusa says that she only likes regular boys. Then she goes on a date with Kozue a few scenes later.
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Based on her height next to Touga, Chigusa is at least 6'1".
* [[Informed Attribute]]: Chigusa is supposed to [[Bifauxnen|look very masculine]], to the point where she feels the need to specify her gender when she introduces herself to the class, but it doesn't show at all in her character design.
* [[Lady of War]]: In contrast to her masculinity she's an elegant fencer.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: {{spoiler|The fencing team's sponsor
* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: In a way similar to Mikage}}.
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: On her duelling outfit and the pommel of her sword.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair
===
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Voiced by: [[Maria Kawamura]] (A-Ko), [[Satomi Koorogi]] (B-Ko), [[Kumiko Watanabe]] (C-Ko, JP); Mandy Bonhomme (A-Ko), Sharon Becker (B-Ko), [[Lisa Ortiz]] (C-Ko, EN)
'''A description of the characters goes here.'''
{{tropelist|I wonder, I wonder, do you know what their tropes are?}}
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: C-Ko is the only one of the Shadow Girls to be transplanted into the movie, with A-Ko and B-Ko being replaced by E-Ko and F-Ko.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Their leitmotif is even named "Aliens from the Planet [[Catch Phrase|Kashira]]".
* [[Combat Commentator]]: In the movie, the Shadow Girls broadcast live footage of Anthy's car chase to the outside world, providing commentary on "who's in the lead", and actually being able to communicate to her through the car radio.
* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: They're not actually nerds, but A-Ko and B-Ko have the nerve to say that C-Ko is "a little strange" compared to them, and that she has no friends. In C-Ko's words, "you guys are ones to talk
* [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]:
* [[The Faceless]]: When they finally appear in person, they're only shown from behind.
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Invoked. Several of their plays are perfect allegories of the events of the episode. Then there are the plays that involve a monkey-catching robot and a wife who thinks you can eat tires for dinner.
* [[Funny Background Event]]:
* [[Genki Girl]]: What they're trying to say [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|is sometimes ambiguous]], but they're always very enthusiastic about it.
* [[Girl Posse]]
* [[Greek Chorus]]: They comment on the duels and/or act out allegorical plays that reference events in the episode.
* [[The Hecate Sisters]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Aliens from the Planet [[Catch Phrase|Kashira]]".
* [[Once an Episode]]: Their shows.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]
* [[Planet of Hats]]: If [[Word of God]] and fan interpretation is to be believed, the Shadow Girls come from a planet called Kashira. The movie supports this, somewhat, with the reveal of an entire news studio of shadow girls.
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* [[School Play]]
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