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** Abuse isn't always apparent or easy to identify. Also you often can't rescue someone from an abusive relationship- they have to do it themselves.
** Don't hate on women, and double if you're a woman yourself. Because a woman who hates other women '''will never be able to love herself'''.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]:
** Akio's... ''makeover'' for the movie was not well received, to say the least. There's some [[Fridge Brilliance]] in his more pathetic portrayal, but try telling that to the rabid Akio fans...
** Movie!Anthy's redesign has also gotten some flack, including accusations of whitewashing due to the changes in her hair and skintone (though she's still clearly not white or Japanese; her slightly paler skin is an unfortunate side effect of the altered color palette, and her straight hair contrasts with movie!Utena's wavy hair as an indication of their subtle role reversal).
** Though the issues surrounding her skin might lie more on the fact that a clearly darker skinned character—in the series—being lightened quite a few shades more to fit a type of palette insinuates the fact that dark skin couldn't fit the color scheme of the movie and for many, finding dark skinned women characters shown in a positive light in media is already difficult is as, making the flack pretty understandable.
** The movie itself gets this, too. While there are plenty of legitimate criticisms, a lot of reasons for ''Utena'' fans hating it can be summed up as "it's not a carbon copy of the series".
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The dark-skinned girl is the resident [[Butt Monkey]] and is usually in a subservient position to the other characters. Not only that but she is also sought after almost as an object by the members of the Student Council. Similarly, most of the male characters act towards the female characters in ways that would never, ever be acceptable or appropriate in real life. Of course, knowing Ikuhara and his love of [[Deconstruction]], this was entirely deliberate.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Yes, Miki is a guy, regardless of his [[Cross-Dressing Voices|incredibly feminine]] [[Aya Hisakawa|voice]].
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