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shadow: Gallop gallop gallop. Lo, give ear to the sound if ye be afar!
shadow: And behold if ye be close at hand!
shadow: For I be a Prince upon a white horse!
shadow: My! A Prince of white horses!
shadow: This flowing mane, these splendid forelegs...how magnificent!
shadow: See here, that's not the Prince of white horses, that's the white horse of the
Prince.
shadow: The Prince is me.
shadow: But, does that mean you're not a human Prince?
shadow: I'm human, but I'm called a "Prince upon a white horse."
shadow: Well anyway, you're a Prince too right? How wonderful!
shadow: Do you really want a horse Prince?
shadow: Of horse!
Touga's feelings for Utena have always been very debatable. Certainly he began pursuing her
precisely because she scorned him, and we all know that Touga loves a good chase.
But by the end of the series, Touga's feelings have taken a bit of a change. What does he
really see in Utena?
Possibility A: Touga is genuinely in love with Utena.
Possibility B: Touga believes he's in love with Utena, but in truth he only wants to take
something away from Akio, because he finally realizes that he's been used.
Possibility C: Touga admires Utena's strength and nobility of character, and acknowledges
her as an amazing person.
Personally, I tend to lean towards C. At the end of the manga, Anthy asks Touga about his
feelings for Utena, and he says that he "admired her as a person". He knows that she's
a one-of-a-kind. He doesn't believe that Akio should posess someone like that, and knows
that Utena deserves better.
Touga might be a bit in love with Utena. But more than that, he's in love with what she
represents. Touga lives in a world of deceit and manipulation. Utena forced him to "rethink
the way he lived his life", and in the end, he became a better person.
Touga is in love with the horse/principles that the prince stands upon, not the prince
herself.
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