Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Sonny Boy Recommendations

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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   read more
report Recommended by Zmathepa
Similar themes of finding your own place in the world, simultaneously both accepting it as it is and rebelling against set patterns of life. Both shows take place in somewhat absurd worlds and use allegories and symbolism in their storytelling, just in slightly different ways.
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