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Kakeochi girl might be my favourite manga. rather than just being about a cute romance, it's actually quite dark, talking about abuse and lgbt+ acceptance. The characters are far from perfect, they each have their flaws and strengths. In the end, they act in a very human and emotion-driven way which is comforting somehow. The story doesn't tell the reader that victims of abuse are perfect cute little traumatised people, it doesn't tell anyone to endure hardships juste because the person imposing them has lived through a lot themselves. It just paints a picture of multi-dimentional characters with varying degrees of agency and the way ... they try to better themselves. The kind of lesbian story you know was written by a lesbian <333

I don't understand when people say the manga is not gay, because it very much was for me. I mostly interpreted the story about being about Utena's abandonment issues, and the fight she had going on between her intuition to find a "strong man" (in short her compulsory heterosexuality), and her will to be her own strong man and emancipate herself and Anthy from the shackles of patriarchy. But maybe I am biased h. I liked that in the ending (spoiler) she actually manages to revolutionise the world and free herself and Utena (I think?). However, the whole was too chaotic, plot-points and magical abilities ... are just revealed like that without any previous indications or structure, but I guess that's part of the fairytale retelling. I might be dense but because of this I didn't catch all of the details of the ending.