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== The Series ==
* A few moments are quite scary, most of them involving Anthy and Akio.
* The first real example of nightmare fuel came with the first episode of Black Rose arc, showing us how [[Mind Rape|Mikage and Mamiya recruits the Black Rose Duelists]]. Akio's fiancee Kanae, goes to Nemuro Memorial Hall for her interview. She enters an elevator and, in anguished tears, divulges her attempts to make friends with Anthy as the elevator speeds past strange plaques ({{spoiler|actually mausoleum plots}}). Meanwhile, someone over a loudspeaker tells her to go [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"Deeper. Even deeper"]] as the elevator accelerates more and more as it descends. Finally, [[Despair Event Horizon|poor Kanae reaches her breaking point]] and Mikage appears behind her from the door, telling her she has no choice but to revolutionize the world. '''And''' then before she can react, Mamiya stabs her in the chest with a black rose. [[The Woobie|Poor Kanae!]]
** Pretty much any time anybody goes into the elevator and crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]].
*** To add some extra [[Fridge Horror]] to that, {{spoiler|the Mamiya we see throughout most of this arc, including this scene, is an illusion acted out by none other than Anthy; in other words, ''Anthy'' is the one who stabbed Kanae!}} Brr.
*** Not to mention you can hear {{spoiler|the 100 dead boys ''kicking around inside their coffins''.}}
* Some of the later shadow girl plays sneak into this territory. There's even a borderline [[Gory Discretion Shot]] when one of the shadow girls ''breaks the other one in half''. [[Hell Is That Noise|A disturbingly realistic squishy, snapping sound is included, of course]], and somehow, B-ko's deadpan "ow" afterwards makes it even worse.
* [[Hell Is That Noise|The sound of the Ohtori academy bell ringing]].
* In the first episode, Utena recognizes Dios's scent on the Rose Bride. Later, we find out that {{spoiler|Dios became the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Akio and has been [[Rape Is Love|forcing himself]] on his [[Brother-Sister Incest|sister, Anthy]] aka the Rose Bride.}} It only gets worse when Akio, after having seduced Utena, comments the three of them are {{spoiler|like ''family''}} and [[Brain Bleach|AFFFGH.]]
** Oh, and there's also the fact that {{spoiler|Akio}}, who is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], is posing as the principal of a high school where he frequently coerces the students into sex in the back of his [[Cool Car]]...''while he's driving''. He even slept with three students on-screen and was engaged to one of them (whom he {{spoiler|had POISONED. Again, poor Kanae.}})!
* Utena and Anthy [[Freaky Friday Flip|switch bodies]] in one episode. The switch lasts for at least a couple of days, if not a week. And once a week Anthy goes to visit her brother... {{spoiler|Therefore, it's highly likely that Akio got a taste of Utena far earlier than even she thought. And without her consent.}}
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* Also from the novel: Kozue's breakdown at the piano, where she keeps slamming on the keys and screaming for Utena to get out of her and Miki's special place.
 
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