Today is the day for Lesbian Comic Sequels

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I went in looking for the last RG Veda omnibus, I came out with "Strangers in Paradisce XXV" and "Revolultionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution". I read the latter, and it was surprisingly good, standing next to the original manga. How much of that is because it clearly ties to the anime can likely be debated, preferably by someone who knows the conception history of the manga vs. the anime and that person is not me.

I really liked seeing what became of the duellists in the future - I thoroughly enjoyed it, for all of them. Kind of weird to have Saionji depicted as someone heroic but from how I remember the anime, he was honestly one of the more sympathetic characters left in the end. I might've said Juri's part was the weakest, possibly because it was pretty much a frank re-telling of the Ruka episode of the anime, only framed somewhat differently. Still, even that one I really liked for the Juri backstory about how she became the fencing champion who is also a model.

The part that touched me the most, though, was absolutely Miki's - or Miki and Shiori's, because she was absolutely no little part of it. Part of that was probably the context - I spent the last two days reading all of "Lady Georgie" which does colour one's view on not-quite-platonic brother-sister relationships. With spoilers unsaid, it is Miki's story that gets to bring some little completion to Utena's story in this volume, and it does so through a visual depiction of music which by coincidence I read while someone else in the room was listenint go something very suitable on youtube.

All in all, it was a quick read coloured by floating castles and rose petals and girls with swords, and it was utterly satisfactory even though it probably isn't that deep.