Hello everyone!

     I have just finished my first rewatch of SKU, so I feel kinda like I have just officially entered the fan realm. But I guess the first rewatch is just an initiation for the next countless others, I suppose? We'll see.

     Anyway what I wanted to read your thoughts on is this point I find rather interesting in the series, which is the contradictions inherent to many of the characters, and maybe all of the important ones.
While it's interesting to define the characters in fiction by certain archetypes, simple, positive ideas, one of the things that makes the series interesting, rich meanings, possibilities of interpretation, but at the same time makes it hard to understand what's going on and what those characters are, that is, represent, especially on the first watching, is this inherently contradictory aspect of them, which does not amount to [moral]* flaws in character, but rather that the conflicting points are simultaneous, inseparable, that the contradiction makes an organic - and thus non-contradictory - character.

     Plus, what makes it more interesting is the fact that this isn't done in a cheap way, as in formulas like "human duality" or "two sides of a coin". Would it be right to say that Akio/Dios is the prince and the devil, as if saying sometimes he's a prince, as when he's courting Utena or triying to safe the Witch/Rose Bride, and sometimes he's the Devil, as then he's fucking his sister or making her stab her Utena prince. The idea that Sekai no Hate had at some point been Dios, a pure, brilliant, shining prince, and at some point in the duration of time ceased to be, seems to me equally imprecise. Rather, I'd think the two contradictory aspects of the same character are somehow the same, and thus, one should say not 'Akio is the prince and the devil', but rather the prince is the devil, even though in this context these words work as contraries, that is, it's like sayin "black is white", "good is bad", "p= non-p". That goes for other characters as well, as Anthy is a priestess, a priestess which is a whore*; Utena is at the same time the strongest and the foolest, a prince and a damsel; and so on.

     In the end, in looking at those characters, we don't exactly know what to make of them, right? Do we like them? Are their actions correct? Questions that, if we think straight, we see they're are absolutely inadequate, but that we can't help but ask.

     So I ask (TL;DR)
     1) Do you think there are characters that are simple but that make a great work? Or do you think a work to be great needs its characters to be complex or even to have this kind of contradictory character, which is of course not an exclusive SKU trait?
     2) Is it fair to say that complex or organically contradictory characters, like some characters in SKU, are always better or more interesting than simple, positive, staightforward, characters?
     3) Do you agree that these characters can be two opposite things at the same time, or do you think they have to be sometimes one thing, sometimes the other? Why?
     4) What other opposing aspects of certain characters do you find interesting?

Sorry for making the post so long or making it look like a school assignment, I wanted to make it look like it had something to be discussed about. Ty all.

*I'm not saying some of them are not immoral, but rather that immorality isn't of the essence, neither is pointing it or judging it.
*Please, I'm not condemning any behaviours represented, it's only figure of speech.