If you liked
Shoujo Kakumei Utena
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...then you might like
Sonny Boy
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Is similarly allegorical and symbolic with its own setting, however, unlike SB, does not outright assault the viewer with the surrealist imagery, rather preferring to start out normal and literal, before easing the viewer into more and more surrealist plotlines by using episodic formula's involving repetitive imagery, and deconstructionist plotlines examing tropes from shojo anime and fairy tales, and overall ramping up the symbolic and allegorical imagery slowly, arc by arc until the final one, where it is a symbolism storm that expects the audience to understand most of it by using the prior described methods. Both are surrealist coming-of-age stories involving a couple of youths' experiences involving their own adolescence, while sequestered from the outside world in a highly allegorical setting representing the education system. The nature of youth and adolescence and how it relates to society as a whole is explored via plotlines involving symbolic imagery.