83 reviews for:

Utena, tome 1

Chiho Saito

3.68 AVERAGE


so so lovely. cute, simple story and beautiful art! looking forward to the next volume
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Reading this with pretty awful scanlations isn’t helping enjoying the story, even if I’m already pissed off by female characters being slapped by men every 15 pages…

Tbh I like the manga's story even more than the anime's version of it!

reread: Um 2.5? I am glad I watched the anime b4 reading the manga.
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional fast-paced

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I like the theme of this manga. A girl who goes against the whole "all girls need a prince to protect them" thing and decides to be her own prince and save herself. That had to be good, right?! But there are a lot of things that are unclear and bizarre to me. Maybe they get explained better in the other volumes, which I'm not sure I will continue.
emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was not what i was expecting! I thought this was about a lesbian fantasy romance, which it kind of is, but really it’s about a weird student council and a boarding school. I love Utena and I’m excited to continue!