Revolutionary Girl Utena/Ho Yay: Difference between revisions

* Chiho Saito (the mangaka and one of the writers) has said that people should consider Utena and Anthy to be like a married couple. This becomes especially noteworthy when you consider that Saito had originally been against the idea of Anthy/Utena being a romantic couple.

** While Saito is heavily maligned by the ''Utena'' fandom for her initial stance on Anthy/Utena, her manga still has its share of [[Les Yay]] at times. In the third volume, Wakaba starts to become jealous of Utena's closeness to Anthy, so Utena has to reassure her that she still considers her to be a dear friend. Wakaba then asks, "Then what about Anthy Himemiya?!", to which Utena says that she's kind of like family... which doesn't please Wakaba at all, because she thinks that's something ''married'' people would say!

* There's also Wakaba's loud and public crush on Utena, which she mainly expresses by glomping Utena and going for rides on her back later on.

** And the fact that the titular Utena has a [[Even the Girls Want Her]] status. The first episode starts off with a long montage of her being invited to join various sports clubs, and of being swooned over by both sexes, including a horde of fangirls at Ohtori. And she elicits these reactions whether dressed as a boy or wearing the Ohtori female uniform, as proved by the episode coming after her loss at the hands of Touga, which she tried to cope with by acting like a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]. And yes, the other girls were still seriously wet for her.