Rebel Prince wrote:

I think that makes Akio a tease. Ride in my hot car, bathe in the glory of my piercing eyes and sunkissed complexion, but bitch don't touch.

He's truly a creature of pure evil, fit for partnering with the evil mastermind genius that is Wakaba. Just not Wakendo Shinokari.

Various Members of IRG wrote:

SCREAMS OF AGONY CAUSED BY MY WAKENDO PICCY

Heh! Gurochan has nothing on me! BWHAHAHAHAHA!

Remember this Boys and Girls, if I ever feel the need for revenge, Sea Urchins coated in heat balm and rammed up the anal passage would be far less painful than what pain I can cause..., WAKENDO is only a sample of my evil.
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Last edited by Tamago (04-10-2007 04:12:14 AM)

Wakaba may be Utena's best friend, but she is not healing in the same way Anthy is. Wakaba and the other fan girls have actually trapped Utena in her role as the school tomboy. She is responsible for acting out their fantasies of feisty womanhood so they don't have to do it themselves. It's not all bad being a role model, but they don't really like Utena for herself but for what she symbolizes to them. Anthy surely must see that and understand all too well.

That's all shown more clearly in the first manga, but in the series notice that Utena is hardly ever serene with Wakaba in the way she often is with Anthy.

Maybe it's because Anthy is, after all, the Rose Bride. She is supposed to play the role of whatever is most suitable for the Victor, in Utena's case - she's supposed to be playing the princess role. Ironically, this is the role she would have wanted to have and yet Utena doesn't really seem to accept Anthy's role because that's what she's offering - a mere act. I doubt Utena was entirely aware of it, but she must have noticed that the Rose Bride thing was not all there was, that Anthy is much more than that underneath it all. That's also why she tried to reach beyond Anthy's Rose Bride facade and while doing so got closer to her. From Anthy's point of view, such a thing should've never happened, she was supposed to be nothing more than the Rose Bride. Note that Utena's own role keeps changing towards the end and thus Anthy doesn't really know how to respond to it, which also makes more way to Utena to reach out for what's under those masks. Maybe Wakaba never really worked for her because she had nothing to "hide" which could have made her a bit , I do believe that Wakaba and Utena were very close, except Utena's and Anthy's relationship went deeper.

And as for what Utena told her in the end: "Himemiya, you still don't know my happiest days were the days I spent with you." It could be explained that Utena had got attatch to Anthy whenever she could see something else than the Rose Bride. You can probably interprete the quote in different ways, it can be that Utena has even deeper/stronger feelings for Anthy than just friendship, or she could think of her as a friend. Except, isn't that something you normally say to someone who you love very much?  Not that anything's normal in SKU...

seriously she is the evil master mind.
1: she goes with akio on a car ride and you never know what happened, unless you use your imagination.
2: utena, anthy, akio, and wakaba are the only people that can see the shadow girls.
3: you never see wakaba at any of the school dances in the anime, and you see her after the dance in the manga.
4: she is the only one locked in her dorm during the fire in the manga, and utena goes to save her, and she's not there, and magically akio shows up and they jump out the window, and wakaba is climbing out of the same window that utena and akio jumped out of. WTF!!!
5: in the manga wakaba knew who professor nemaru was and the story behind him.

so is she the evil master mind behind all the duels and the evil stuff going on at ohtori. i think so!

Shinolala2 wrote:

2: utena, anthy, akio, and wakaba are the only people that can see the shadow girls.

Tokiko and the three boys see them too, don't forget.

I don't know if I can agree with this whole thing 100%, but I think this makes for an interesting idea for a fic or something (and I'm not really one for fan fiction). It does give serious food-for-thought about the relationship dynamics that aren't entirely shown.

Black, I think there is already a crack fic about Wakaba pwning Akio somewhere in that ancient Utena fanfic archive ran by Alan Harnum.

This ting about Wakaba keeps disturbing me since last week
I can´t just accept it Y_Y

crystalwren wrote:
I'm half inclined to write up an essay arguing for Wakaba's hidden epic evilfull mastermindery. But given that I've already got a half written Tokiko essay moldering for the last three months, I somehow doubt it'll ever come to fruition...

If you are to exchange the word "essay" with "fic", I'd so go into fangasm!