I always thought it might have taken her a while to figure it all out herself, and then to work up the balls to leave. Anthy might have been revolutionized, but she's still her core character, hesitant and calculating. She was probably trying to come up with an idea of what she was going to do to find Utena and all of the details before she up and walked out. That's my headcanon at least

BlackBeforeRed wrote:

I always thought it might have taken her a while to figure it all out herself, and then to work up the balls to leave. Anthy might have been revolutionized, but she's still her core character, hesitant and calculating. She was probably trying to come up with an idea of what she was going to do to find Utena and all of the details before she up and walked out. That's my headcanon at least

Thread Necro for the week here.

So -- my take on this is that Anthy, as BlackBeforeRed mentioned, took time to figure things out. I believe there was no precedent for her to try to determine where someone was outside of the campus.

This has been brewing in my mind a lot recently because I want to know what happened to Utena after the swords of hate got to her. So the swords take her out. Being that this is Ohtori and nothing really actually happens kinda sorta... does Akio snap out of it inside of the planetarium (where the duel took place) and see a passed out Utena and Anthy then immediately ushers Utena out of the school all together via his connections? I'd suspect that he shipped her off/out and she managed to get to a hospital to recover then on her merry way. Meanwhile, Anthy is still coming to terms with what is going on. She is unaware of what Akio has done to "graduate" Utena so she would spend her time gathering resources around the campus to determine where Utena went. Which Hospital? What family did she have left? Who were her parental guardians as it were?

Akio mentions it was a short time after the event, so i suspect it was a month(ish?) later and Anthy had gathered what information she needed to go and pursue Utena.

Anthiena wrote:

This is a nice theory but she didn't graduate. In fact, it's remarked that she was expelled. She ceased to exist to that world. She was carried anywhere, she was ejected by the school itself.

Yes! Incorrect word choice. I apologize!


I guess my confusion still stands as to what happened immediately following Utena being hit by the swords of hate. I presume her actual sword wound though still stands? right? Similar to how Touga took a real hit from a sword when he was hurt -- as that wasn't a part of the illusion.

She ceased to exist in the world-- so i'm curious, i guess do they just Harry Potter style disapparate?

Definitely, Anthy needed the time to confirm her feelings and determine what her next steps were. I'm sure she underwent some type of grieving process too. Coming to terms with the fact that the girl who truly loved her is gone. I'm sure that wasn't easy, so processing all of that had to be rough.

I have so many questions that lead up to Utena and Anthy reuniting. I just assumed there was some sort of process to being expelled / kicked out / otherwise. Mikage also vanishes and his memory is gone, but did he really exist to begin with is a different discussion. The difference here is that Utena's memory was still slightly there.

My headcannon says Akio got up from revolution duel illusion with an angry face and snapped his fingers to be rid of Utena when her purpose had dried up which caused Anthy some sort of struggle to figuring out where exactly to go from this coffin she has lived in for so long. Honestly, what is the outside world like anymore?