Just started watching Utena. I’m confused, are Wakaba and Utena already dating? Is… is Utena going to cheat? That doesn’t seem great

Nah wakaba just refers to Utena that way as a “joke”, they’re legitimately just Bros. I don’t like the manga much but there’s a panel where wakaba even says that since anthy and Utena now seem married, she’ll be the “mistress”

That said anthy/wakaba/Utena is real and good and has heavy janeroxcallie energies. The thing about Utena is that she is very much a John-esque protagonist, heroic but clueless and oblivious, especially about her sexuality.

She finds both wakaba and anthys addressing her with romantic terms odd, if not off-putting early on. This is part of the point

On the off chance we get the Epilogue tomorrow, here’s my guesses on how it’ll likely go down

From most to least likely:

-The Beta kids pop outta the juju, LE is pocketed in the black hole. This basically already happened so its an easy guess.

-John probably picks up the Alpha kids from the Masterpiece, now reunited with Lil Seb meaning the kids have the bunny back! yay! someone put him back in the box

-Terezi confronts Vriska and probably forces her to Remem8er (Vriska’s) memories, or somehow merges their two selves. This might involve a kiss in a reversal of the “Kill her | Kiss her” dichotomy Slick and Sn0wman faced.

-Jane will probably revive the remaining ghosts in the army, effectively becoming the savior of the dreaming dead.

-Davepeta might, maybe, if we’re lucky, steal the national treasure known as Arquis out of LE. Who knows if it’ll happen, I just think Davepeta’s classpect gives them the possibility. And Arquis kinda deserves a happy ending imo.

-If all of that comes to pass, maybe Tavros will come across Gamzee’s half-corpse and take pity, prompting Gamzee to be revived and Gamtav to be pseudo-canon. Gamzee may be truly redeemed or may just be an antagonist on Earth C, who knows.

I’ve posted a much longer version of these thoughts on Patreon already, I just thought I’d condense it into the core crystallized guesses I have. Wonder if I’ll be right about any of it? Well, we probably won’t find out tomorrow honestly. Just thought I’d take the opportunity to lay this all out since I was in the mood.

keep rising!