C-ko is mine and mine alone!

My favorite couples would have to be...

Utena/Anthy - classic, magical, beautiful.

Saionji/Touga *unrequited* - because I love to watch Saionji suffer, but in a good way!

Mikage/Mamiya - forgetting that Anthy is Mamiya, it's just so romantic and fucked up.

Tatsuya/Kanae - THEY DESERVE LOVE. Don't judge them.

Ruka/Juri *unrequited* - he's an asshole, but it's the thought that counts. Not the ends. Or the means. Or the death.

And lastly Touga/Miki in a purely sexual way. No love, just experimentation.

I'd actually love to see Shiori/Miki now. She starts using him as a way to get back at Juri then starts forming an inferiority complex around him too. Then Kozue pushes her down a flight of stairs... Poor Shiori. At least Juri visits her in the hospital.

Edit: I forgot Tsuwabuki's unrequited love for Touga! My old passion...

Last edited by NajiMinkin (08-24-2008 07:52:18 AM)

hmm...my favorite would probably be Nanami/Saionji. They'd be good together, eventually.

I'm also a fan of Wakaba/Tatsuya, as cliche as that would be.

Anthy/Utena, of course. And yes, I do mean the movie version. Fuck you Saito.

A-ko/B-ko is a good one though, not sure about A-ko/B-ko/C-ko, but then, why the hell not?

I'm gonna have to piss some people off by saying I do like Ruka/Juri, though I'm pretty sure that she's actually gay. So this is kind of anti-canon, them ever being together, but I do like the pairing.

Back to something vaguely plausible, I like Juri/Kozue an awful lot. Yeah, they'd be fucked up together for a while, but I think they could take care of each other maybe.

Also, Miki/Shiori is one I'm fond of as well, good call there Naji.

NajiMinkin wrote:

C-ko is mine and mine alone!

You may have her, but keep your paws off B-Ko.

Utena/Anthy: Not just my favorite pairing in this show, but one of my favorites of all time.  I personally like that it was left ambiguous as to whether they were getting it on offstage or just close friends edging toward something more, because honestly? That doesn't matter.  What matters is Utena's attempts to understand Anthy and determination to treat her like a human being no matter what, and Anthy frantically trying to force her friend away from the dueling game as the end draws near.  What matters is the trust and betrayal and confusion and sacrifice and the way that they work together, help and look after each other, and come so close to saving each other.  And, of course, what matters is, "The tea is poisoned."  "So are the cookies."

Wakaba/Saionji: Because she was kind to him, and he was able to focus his dedication and fragile sense of fairness, even honor, in order to return her kindness.  Because I'm a horrible sucker for Good Girl/Bad Boy pairings - but, I hasten to add, not the type that are based on corruption of the Good Girl or the complete and straightforward redemption/woobification of the Bad Boy.  We did glimpse her well-hidden dark side (though that was turned against Saionji, not towards him) and his rarely-seen considerate side, but both of those things evolved naturally from what had already been displayed or at least hinted at.  They weren’t different people when they were around each other, just more of the same people… both for better and for worse, as Saionji discovered when he made the deal that would return him to his own life.  Their relationship was very tentative, very one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back, and they never got a chance to strengthen that fragile connection and acceptance, move past the idea of what they could give each other and toward the possibility of the real thing.  And that makes me sad, but not devastated, because I’m not entirely opposed to…

Wakaba/Tatsuya: Because they’re cute, and much more stable than any of the other relationships in the series, which is probably why canon didn’t spend a whole lot of time on them.

Ruka/Mikage: Well, yes.  They never actually get a chance to meet in canon, and my fondness for this pairing is probably a result of – among other things - having read Jamais Vu a few too many times.  But even in the series timeline, they have very similar worldviews, with just enough discrepancies to keep things interesting.  I think that they’d get each other, appreciate each other’s intelligence and determination, in the way that few other characters would get either of them… and, either despite this or because of it, be able to both accept each other’s scheming tendencies and keep them in check as needed.  I think that Ruka would be up to the challenge of mediating between Mikage and approximately the rest of humanity – also as needed – and Mikage would be a good test of Ruka’s ability (I am firmly convinced that it’s in there… somewhere) to care for someone without trying to “fix” him.  Also, it would be hot.

Jellineck wrote:

Chu-Chu/The Frog

I totally spaced! SKU OTP 4EVA!

Duelist Megu wrote:

Coco Melancholy wrote:

Shiori's been hanging out with Utena a lot in my head lately, I would like to see Shiori hanging out with Utena since Utena is convinced she's the pinnacle of goodness and deserving of forgiveness, and I'd like to see Juri and Anthy's reactions to it.

I suspect that's precisely why they don't hang out.  Like, Shiori's got the whole "if only they could see my inner dark side, if only they knew the real me" thing going on; she'd just interpret it as a wildly deluded view of Utena's rather than reflecting any actual positive qualities on Shiori's part.  This would be ineffective for Shiori's morale at best, and a match thrown on a powderkeg at worst.

I think that's the exact reason why I'd love to see it happen, I could see Utena approaching Shiori out of concern for her when seeing her looking down or all alone and trying to be her friend while convincing Juri on the side that she's "a nice girl" at heart and "you should give her a chance" all the while being estrangled from Juri means that Shiori could well feel close to Utena (the girls pretty damn endearing) and the likeness between the two might prove an attraction, the thing that makes it hilarious is that it's probably worse than JurixShiori with Utena's obliviousness and all, and Anthy and Juri's passive agressivessness might make for some interesting reactions, especially since Shiori is in the same position Anthy is in regards to Utena/Juri and that Anthy being the possessive girl she is might not like another student stepping on her terrirtory.

Also, C-ko is

Neva Caruso wrote:

Utena/Anthy: Not just my favorite pairing in this show, but one of my favorites of all time.  I personally like that it was left ambiguous as to whether they were getting it on offstage or just close friends edging toward something more, because honestly? That doesn't matter.  What matters is Utena's attempts to understand Anthy and determination to treat her like a human being no matter what, and Anthy frantically trying to force her friend away from the dueling game as the end draws near.  What matters is the trust and betrayal and confusion and sacrifice and the way that they work together, help and look after each other, and come so close to saving each other.  And, of course, what matters is, "The tea is poisoned."  "So are the cookies."

Wakaba/Saionji: Because she was kind to him, and he was able to focus his dedication and fragile sense of fairness, even honor, in order to return her kindness.  Because I'm a horrible sucker for Good Girl/Bad Boy pairings - but, I hasten to add, not the type that are based on corruption of the Good Girl or the complete and straightforward redemption/woobification of the Bad Boy.  We did glimpse her well-hidden dark side (though that was turned against Saionji, not towards him) and his rarely-seen considerate side, but both of those things evolved naturally from what had already been displayed or at least hinted at.  They weren’t different people when they were around each other, just more of the same people… both for better and for worse, as Saionji discovered when he made the deal that would return him to his own life.  Their relationship was very tentative, very one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back, and they never got a chance to strengthen that fragile connection and acceptance, move past the idea of what they could give each other and toward the possibility of the real thing.  And that makes me sad, but not devastated, because I’m not entirely opposed to…

Wakaba/Tatsuya: Because they’re cute, and much more stable than any of the other relationships in the series, which is probably why canon didn’t spend a whole lot of time on them.

Ruka/Mikage: Well, yes.  They never actually get a chance to meet in canon, and my fondness for this pairing is probably a result of – among other things - having read Jamais Vu a few too many times.  But even in the series timeline, they have very similar worldviews, with just enough discrepancies to keep things interesting.  I think that they’d get each other, appreciate each other’s intelligence and determination, in the way that few other characters would get either of them… and, either despite this or because of it, be able to both accept each other’s scheming tendencies and keep them in check as needed.  I think that Ruka would be up to the challenge of mediating between Mikage and approximately the rest of humanity – also as needed – and Mikage would be a good test of Ruka’s ability (I am firmly convinced that it’s in there… somewhere) to care for someone without trying to “fix” him.  Also, it would be hot.

I am glad I am not the only one who supports RukaxMikage I fully agree on the worldviews take on why they would be good for each other. Their complicated relationships would make for another valid reason, too. As far as ability goes, the psychological workings of their minds as well as their desire to protect the people they really care about as well as birth reasons to gain "eternity" makes for another reason these two would work well together. Yes, I, too, agree that this couple is hot.

Trench Kamen wrote:

Miki/Mikage

Think about it.

Love it!

Utena/Anthy is pretty much the only anime "couple" I've ever felt emotionally invested in.  Maybe the only fictional couple.

I don't think they were ever sexually/romantically involved during the series, though.

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

Oh god, my favorite?

While Saionji/Touga is always good and fucked up, I'd have to concede to Saionji/Akio.  There is just way too much fun there.

I'm involved in a Utena RPG on Gaiaonline that has quite a bit of Akio/Saionji action in it. I play Saionji, of course.

Um well here are mine
Utena/Touga
Utena/Mikage(Weird yes,but as he said they were similar.)
Utena/Saionji(Odd I know but really she ws the one who made him want something eternal.)

Chigusa looks cool but I don't know much about her personality,and Ruka loves Juri anyway,though I'll admit he is a player like Touga,only he goes one at a time where as Touga likes orgy's.