Quick question - Does anyone know the names to all the duels? so far I have this:


Saionji – Friendship
Saionji – Choice
Miki – Reason
Juri – Love
Nanami – Adoration
Touga – Conviction
Touga – Self

Kanae - Alienation
Kozue - Attachment
Shiori – Inferiority
Mitsuru – Impatience
Wakaba – Limit
Keiko – Inferior
Mikage – Resolution

Saionji – Posessiveness
Ruka – Lamentation
Nanami – insecurity

Suyo wrote:

Quick question - Does anyone know the names to all the duels? so far I have this:


Saionji – Friendship
Saionji – Choice
Miki – Reason
Juri – Love
Nanami – Adoration
Touga – Conviction
Touga – Self

Kanae - Alienation
Kozue - Attachment
Shiori – Inferiority
Mitsuru – Impatience
Wakaba – Limit
Keiko – Inferior
Mikage – Resolution

Saionji – Posessiveness
Ruka – Lamentation
Nanami – insecurity

I think the only ones officially named (i.e. in series) are those of the first arc. I'd desperately love to know all of the oficial names, if they exist, for the sake of icon-making. And I love the French names. They seem to fit with the series, and give this overarching feel to all of the duels... as if a real record was being kept somewhere.

Oh man, definitely Wakaba's. When she's screaming about special people thinking they can walk all over everyone else? Ouch. OUCH. OWWWWWWWWWWW

Also, in a more general sense, Saionji's. I suppose specifically the third. Possession and pride. Yep, that's me.

When I was in High School, I would say that Keiko's duel really reflected my feelings. But now the duel which makes me cry from watching it has to be Nanami's final duel. It makes me feel so bad when she says the she couldn't bare to be like everyone else, another one of Touga's unanswered phone calls.

Though the Ruka/Jury duels leave me speechless. So pretty and so deeply upsetting.

I actually find that I sympathize with Utena, especially with her behavior in the first episode- the duel for friendship. Leave it to a naive muskateer like me to waltz in and threaten to kick the Kendo team captain's butt. Especially for the sake of a friend.

Time and again, anyone watching my life can see that my claws come out quickest when someone special to me is treated unkindly. And, with my short fuse, it's been known to be a blood bath at times. (bad archer...bad!)

The other duel in which I most identified with Utena was her duel with Mikage. "Meet me tomorrow in the dueling arena, and I'll show you I'm nothing like you" Many of the major decisions in my life have been made to prove to people that I'm better than them. And that they couldn't possibly identify with someone like me.

Only to realize sometime later, that we're more alike that I want anyone to know. Utena's quest for a noble heart is something I've desired my whole life. Not to be the one to save princesses, but for the sake of being noble itself.

Most times people will say they connect with the main character, but in my case I realized that in many ways I was Utena-like. Naive, romantic, idealistic, quick to fight for the under dog, and caught in that strange paradox of wanting to be both a prince & a princess simultaneously.

Well just getting out of High School and into the some what more real world, I think I more attached to the final duel: Revolution. Which I guess everybody, in a way, is somewhat connected with it. It was the duel in which both Utena and Anthy got their freedom from Akio, who was trying to stay attached to his coffin world so he probably didn’t have to deal with the real horrors of the outside one.

High School was in the perception that nothing else mattered but their petty little lives. ‘Oh I must date him because he throws the most amazing parties!’ or ‘I must have a Kate Spade or Dooney and Bourke purse because they are the it thing.’ (I shall not comment on the fact, that either of the purses are a real waste in the Fashion industry.) But the real heart breaker of the entire thing was that I was so afraid of being an outcast in school that I wanted to secure a place in the hierarchy, and I did . . . well at least got to a point where people didn’t mess much with me.

But towards the end I discovered there was more to life then beer and badly quilted bags. (Like Couture Gowns and Skyy.) So I revolutionized my life and got out of there, not lamenting those halls like I thought I would.

I'll third Archer in the relating to Utena comments... as in, jumping into the duel with Saionji. My most personally cherished personality trait would be loyalty, it's how I define myself. I *must* defend my loved ones.

Wakaba's duel breaks my heart. Such a sweet person need not feel so unloved. Which, unfortunately, there are so many sweet people in real life suffering the same way.

Although it is not a duel, it does seem like a mild 'fight', the Utena-pulling-Anthy-from-falling-to-her-doom scene, where, instead of grabbing Anthy and coddling her, "Poor baby," she kind of screams at her that, "You'd better get back here and face this!" That's what I do, yank self-destructive friends up by their collars and spur them forward. (out of love) I hope it's helpful... which brings me to Revolution duel, the mind game, in the before the start of the duel, when Akio questions Utena's nobility & points out her mistakes. She thought she was a good person, striving for a noble goal, but didn't that prideful attitude count against her? I treasure my ideals so much, I rarely notice the holes and who knows if they would crumble if they were challenged? By the end of Revolution, Utena's "code" was challenged, she dropped all pretense and found freedom. I can only hope that I'll have the same result.

Wakaba's duel always gets me in tear mode and Juri's last, why must they be so sad!?!?!

I would say Kanae's duel, many times I've lent things to people only to have them ruined plus when someone bugs me, they really bug me

Also Mitsuru's duel cause people baby me alot and don't take me seriously.... its quite patronizing

Millionthing the Wakaba duel. I burst out into tears in the middle of it-- during the part where she says something like 'You use the gifts you were born with to walk all over everyone else!' It was chilling. I started to cry.

Strangely enough, I used to relate very well to Utena's second duel with Touga. That sense of fighting to recover something that was important to you will be a constant companion for me, I think.

I can relate a lot to Wakaba and Shiori, especially during college times.
I can never understand why I am to be looked down upon just because my principles and beliefs don't match with the ones who most people would consider as the "Elite" of this dumb social food chain. And, the friends I made in college, they would be nice to me, but it made me feel disgusted because in doing so, they treat me as an inferior who can't do anything myself. Their kindness, then, no matter what their motives are, immediately turns into something of a pitiable charity in my eyes, not because they're doing this because they like me, not that I'd ever know.

And, I second Yasha's comment about Utena's second duel about getting back the "Soi". But, I personally like the most the final duel of the series because that is when Utena can actually live outside herself as her motive changes from being a prince to freeing someone else who's suffering. I wish I can be able to do that for someone else some day.

Last edited by Hiraku (03-17-2007 03:45:39 PM)

dollface wrote:

Suyo wrote:

Keiko – Inferior

Keiko's duel was 'Dependence', for the record.

Actually, there is no accepted set of duel names for the BRS. This question has come up before, and I could not find the fanfic writers' version of the duel names, but I do have an artbook with what appear to be duel names for the BRS. I'm not sure whether you want to consider them canon or not.

The duel names from the artbook are:

Kanae - alieation
Kozue - attache
Shiori - jalousis
Tsuwabuki - impatience
Wakaba - limite
Keiko - dependance

Reposted from this thread.