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Shadow: Extra! Extra! Extra!
Shadow: At last, at last, it's finally raining!
Shadow: Whenever it rains on a sunny day, we have to hurry and get married.
Shadow: That's the custom of us fox-girls.
Shadow: You guys are so lucky.
Shadow: You see, we can't get married until it snows on a sunny day.
Shadow: That's the code of us bunny-girls.
Utena: What's wrong with not getting married?
Wakaba feels that she is not "special". She isn't one of the unique people like Utena who
draw others through their charisma. Because she feels she isn't special, she isn't.
But finally, Wakaba gets her chance. By chance, Saionji lands in Wakaba's dorm. Because
Wakaba holds the secret of her crush dorming with her, she suddenly feels that she is
"special".... so she becomes special, and flourishes like never before. Saionji falling
into Wakaba's dorm is rain on Wakaba's sunny day: Now she can be special!
Marriage is something that makes you special to another person. As long as Saionji stays
in Wakaba's dorm, she is special to him. But if he leaves...
Utena asks what's wrong with not getting married. In the end, it is not another person
viewing you as special that makes you special, but your own view of yourself. Utena
asks if you can view yourself as special without someone else's approval.
Then, of course, there is also the option of getting married whenever, instead of just
when it rains on a sunny day. But Wakaba could never approach Saionji normally - she felt
she was too far from him, a *very* popular boy with many other female admirers.
It's also interesting to note that Utena herself cannot view herself as special without
her own "marriage" to the Rose Bride. Though she comments on not getting married, she needs
that bond as much as Wakaba needed her relationship with Saionji.
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