Shadow Play Analysis


Episode 17: "Thorns of Death"

"My Secret: Woolen Panties"

C-ko: Extra! Extra! Extra!
C-ko: I'm done for! They all found out my secrets!
C-ko: There's nothing to worry about.
C-ko: I'm dying!
C-ko: No one thinks of it as embarrassing.
C-ko: Is that so?
C-ko: Sure it is! Everyone wears things like woolen panties.
C-ko: But who would wear three pairs of them?
C-ko: So I am done for then.
C-ko: Even though I'm considered a fashionable, nice dresser, I'm wearing woolen panties!
C-ko: And three pairs, even!
C-ko: I'll never get married this way. What should I do?
Utena: Take 'em off?

If there is one thing Juri keeps absolutely hidden and secret, it is her love for Shiori. If anyone finds out about it, she is crushed - one might deduce that Juri is somewhat ashamed of her weakness in the situation and doesn't want to let on.

A secret love is one thing that lots of people hide - like woolen panties - but Juri is far more protective of her secret than most. She considers her secret even worse than the others' - like three pairs of woolen panties - and she makes it worse by obssessing about it.

Juri is a respected and even feared student at Ohtori - what would happen to her reputation if people found out she "wears woolen panties." Utena pointed out the obvious solution to C-ko - "take them off." But Juri is incapable of letting go of her obssession with Shiori.

Once Shiori "found out all her secrets" Juri definitely did not take it lightly. Now that everyone (or Shiori, who might as well be everyone in Juri's eyes) knows that she wears woolen underpants, Juri's life might as well be over.


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