Shadow Play Analysis


Episode 23: "Qualifications of a Duelist"

"But I Was My Class Rep!"

C-ko: Extra! Extra! Extra!
C-ko: Your pop was a class rep at your age.
C-ko: Wow, that's great, Pop!
C-ko: Hey, you, what's with this paperwork? It's terrible!
C-ko: Shit, even though I was a class rep back when!
C-ko: Honey, you can't just leave your socks here when you take them off, it's terrible!
C-ko: Shit, even though I was a class rep back when!
C-ko: Well, I'm off to school, Pop!
C-ko: Wait! Give me that school backpack! Your pop'll go to school!

One of the things that links nearly every single one of the duelists is, like Mikage, they all have "precious memories" to protect. Be it Utena's Prince or Miki's Sunlit Garden, all of the duelists want to "change the future according to their memories" - they want their lives to be as they were.

Of course this is impossible. The chick cannot go back into the egg. Even Akio wants to go back into his egg - he wishes to aquire the power that he had as a prince.

So, though Mikage (or practically any other character in Utena) used to be their class rep, they're still living in their memories of being class rep, and are totally messing up the present, in desiring to return to the past.


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