Grrr, none of the ones I've thought of quite capture the spirit of what you're doing. They're all answers to questions actually posed at least indirectly in the series, like my feeling that Kozue is as good a pianist as Miki, or at least used to be. The Saionji playing poker thing is pretty cool, though. Well, here's one.

Juri is a complete philistine where food is concerned. She enjoys cheese whiz on triscuits as a snack and often eats at McDonalds. She's very sensitive about this.

sigh...that was lame, I know, but it's pretty early. Sorry.

I have ideas... they're just kind of amorphous in my head and I need to find a way to put them into words so I can share them. I think this is a really fun idea for a thread and I definitely want to contribute.

When Wakaba goes out into the town, she likes to visit local dives and score some extra cash hustling games of snooker.

Tanaka, Yamada and Suzuki once attempted to make it big in the music world by starring in a boy-band called The Megane 3... their debut song never got any higher than 139th on the music charts and was disbanded soon after.

Tsuwabuki loves yellow Mentos and always has one before breakfast and one after tea-time.

It's not suprising that Shiori and Mari look alot alike, they are first cousins after all as Shiori's father and Mari's mother are in fact fraternal twins.

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Miki's obsession with clicking his stopwatch was the side effect of an accident when a headless nail from an exploding shed pierced the side of his head and lodged into his brain when he was 9 years old.

Despite of her reputation, Kozue is in fact still a virgin. 

Ragnarok wrote:

Movie!Utena is Mikage and Tokiko's daughter.

There, fixed that for ya!

Series!Utena is either Chibii-Usa from an alternate universe or they were switched at birth.

She also has an actual pair of red pants in her closet...but never wears them.

Anthy doesn't own any actual clothing aside from that pink outifit from the end of the series.

Tamago wrote:

Tanaka, Yamada and Suzuki once attempted to make it big in the music world by starring in a boy-band called The Megane 3... their debut song never got any higher than 139th on the music charts and was disbanded soon after.

Brilliant!

Was the song called "Pao! Pao! Pao!"?

1. Kozue is every bit of the prodigy that Miki is, genious and all. It her actions that lead people to believe she is the more 'normal' of the twins. Also, her talent lies in writing and drawing.  The visual genius to Miki's musical one.

2. Miki is probably proficient in another instrument, probably violin, but prefers the tone of the piano.

3. Saionji is probably a SHIMASEN HERO! It fits with the whole japanese traditionalist thing

4. Nanami probably has subscriptions to every high profile foreign fashion magazine evar, because she's that shallow.

5. Wakaba is an excellent singer. She just is full of stage-fright.

In Episode 9 of SKU, the real reason that Utena told the young Saionji and Touga that the third coffin was meant for her was that she had in fact died in the car accident but due to a secret govenment project involving alien DNA, Utena was brought back to life.

That explains the MiB types that took Utena away.

The alien DNA also explains her super-human athletic prowess and endurence as she can climb all those stairs and not even be slightly puffed out.

Miki has a 'Prince Albert'.

The snails inside of Anthy's pencil case are the lost souls of the 100 duellist that were killed in Nemuro Hall.

Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

Was the song called "Pao! Pao! Pao!"?

Quite possibly!

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Tamago wrote:

Despite of her reputation, Kozue is in fact still a virgin. 

You know, that wouldn't surprise me.   I kinda always thought Shiori was the sort of person who slept around, considering her inferiority complex and need to be needed.*

*rather than Kozue, I mean

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Though that was never mentioned in the manga, Dios actually had an evil twin sister, who is known in the anime as... Mrs Ohtori (BTW: In Polish edition of the manga In the prologue, when Utena desribes her meeting with her prince, she refers to him as "Lollipop") Poptarts for the translators

Juri's older sister was actually in the same grade as Saionji, and when they were in kindergarden, she pushed him into the sandbox and stole his toy firetruck. This is why Saionji is so passionate about keeping Anthy in her place, and also why he is so angered by Utena's strong nature. Deep down, his resentment towards Touga stems from his desire for that shiny red firetruck just out of his reach. Poor, poor Saionji.

And it isn't really personal, since other's have fancied the idea as well, but I'm in the camp of Nanami-as-Saionji's-sister fans.

Kozue and Miki experimented when they were kids. That is why there is such tension between them. There I said it.