First, allow me to express my amazement at the fact that this thread doesn't already exist.

Anyway, here goes:

Utena: She's a travel writer.

Anthy: Either a veterinarian or a cultural anthropologist.

Touga: Works at the family business, but "work" mostly consists of meals with clients and dating their eligible daughters.

Nanami: Taking up Touga's slack at work.

Miki: Theoretical physicist. Still fences because Juri would have his head if he ever stopped. Spent a year studying piano under some of the greatest pianists in the world, and now he plays for the local symphony.

Saionji: Whatever makes his family proud of him, but he really wants to study Japanese history.

Juri: Tried out for the Olympics in fencing but never made the team. However, it got her enough notoriety to boost her modeling career, and she landed a contract with an athletic wear company as their brand ambassador.

Wakaba: She spent a year or two as an Office Lady before getting married and starting a family.

I will not look at the old thread. I will not look at the old thread. I will not...


Utena: High school teacher.

Anthy: Housewife, in the Peg Bundy mode.

Juri: High school gym teacher with an office full of awards and citations that should imply she has a better job.

Touga: Black sheep of family. Paid to stay out of sight.

Nanami: Professional diarist.

Wakaba: Video rental store clerk. Wait, they don't have those any more. Hobby shop manager.

Miki: Office worker with a weekend band he plays keyboard in.

Shiori: Television morning show presenter.

Saionji: Political speaker. Some sort of nostalgia-based MRA arts and crafts and self-respect Iron John stuff.

Utena: Probably an author of life experience books. Or a feminist darling, of course.

Anthy: I don't see this one doing much, maybe an assistant or something. Or something interesting like a garden designer.

Touga: Surely the CEO of a company.

Juri: Something authoritative like an ambassador or a director.

Miki: Composer. Or a mathematician and mathematics professor.

Nanami: Probably a designer of some kind and own a charming shop.

Saionji: Something simple and dull, of course. Maybe a kendo teacher.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Saionji: MRA

Hey. HEY.

That's going too far.

....If it must be so, let him at least never have a fedora and neckbeard.

Lilac wrote:

Though curious, why exactly did you think those careers would suit Saionji?

He's trying so hard to be a classical Japanese manly man. It's more than just posturing, from dress to hobbies to decision-making, it's a lifestyle for him. And, he's creepy dismissive/obsessive with girls like he should be hosting a PUA show on VH1.

Once Touga's gone out of his life, what's he going to have? Pretty much, he'll have venting. And, that kind of venting, it seems to me, would take him straight on the men-helping-men-by-spiting-everything circuit.

Plus, he's self-aggrandizing enough to go for it. Whereas, Utena seems, to me, to have enough self-doubt and sense of perspective to stick to something smaller but hopefully useful.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

He's trying so hard to be a classical Japanese manly man. It's more than just posturing, from dress to hobbies to decision-making, it's a lifestyle for him. And, he's creepy dismissive/obsessive with girls like he should be hosting a PUA show on VH1.

Once Touga's gone out of his life, what's he going to have? Pretty much, he'll have venting. And, that kind of venting, it seems to me, would take him straight on the men-helping-men-by-spiting-everything circuit.

Plus, he's self-aggrandizing enough to go for it.

Yes, you are right about those reasons, he is conservative and would want to live in a traditional way. Though even his angst and bitterness can help him like you said, it may also be the opposite, as he might be visceral and egotistical and he is not a very incredible leader. So, I'd say this would be more of one of his desires, that tragically won't come true, of course.

Mikage as a therapist.
Just think.

Nocturnalux wrote:

I always imagined Saionji becoming a chef, probably a highly traditional sushi chef. But I actually think he would be remarkably skilled at it and even become famous. Chefs are known for their temper and given the borderline militaristic organization of a sushi kitchen, he would be right at home. I would expect much foaming at the mouth at any culinary innovation (trigger warning whenever someone as much as mentions 'California roll' in his presence).

He would end up getting a lot of media attention and be flooded with female fans only to find it all hopelessly disgusting and go on some soul searching journey to perfect his sushi skills.

Headcanon accepted.

I honestly think that Saionji, outside of Ohtori, would be one of the most successful characters. I think the Saionji that hangs out with Wakaba and the Saionji that offers to make Nanami some eggs when she is upset is the Saionji he would be outside of the school. He's hard-working, really dedicated and takes pride in what he does.
Now if he can just stop knocking girls around he'd be a real winner.

A shot near the end of the last episode always made me imagine Saionji and Nanami owning a conservative tea shop together. Maybe married. It's a natural partnership: they share a common interest, after all.   They would challenge each other just enough, I think. And Touga would think it was just the cutest thing. Nanami teaches the traditional tea ceremony on the side, but her classes are usually a thinly veiled opportunity to exchange gossip.

If he continues on his current trajectory, Tsuwabuki will grow up to be Ernest Hemingway. Or else a private investigator, or maybe, deploying his inexplicable hand-to-hand combat prowess, a bounty hunter. Then again, he might mellow and become an office guy. He's hard to read.

I can't guess what Utena will become. I feel like the events of the show are so transformative for her that I don't have a good sense of what kind of person will emerge from them. A good person, I think. But that's adolescence for you, I guess. Gun to my head, I think she'll work with her hands, take a low-prestige job where she can fade to the background. A mechanic, maybe, or a carpenter. I feel sure that she won't be happy unless she is doing the kind of work where she can point to it at the end of the day and say "I did that." Whatever she does, she will take pride in it. That's just intuition, though.

I think it's very clear on what they're gonna become lol.

1.) Utena-Hard to say, because we never saw her after she admitted that she can't "become a prince." She's still probably figuring out stuff and planning her future from scratch since she's ironically the one out of everyone she's saved who realized too late that there are no miracles. But I see her in a position in which she helps out others, or someone in athletics.

2.) Anthy-Obviously a gardener, florist, or landscape architect! She's always taking care of flowers in her free time. She may travel frequently as well since she never got to see the world due to Akio tying her down all those times.

3.) Juri-This is an easy one. She's clearly going to be in a powerful position, seeing as she can easily make the school staff suck up to her. She's the one who's most likely to succeed out of everybody. I feel like fencing would be sort of a hobby for her instead of a career. We see that she's really into fashion modeling and good at being a general role model for staff and students.

4.) Touga-He may either fully escape Ootori and find his own path, take over the family business or stay Akio's slave. I doubt that he would stay with Akio after all that though.

5.) Miki-Obviously a composer, pianist, and famous musician overall lol.

6.) Saionji-Probably gonna blunder around his whole life. He's gullible and horrible at managing his conflicts. But if he were able to keep a job, possibly something traditional like painting. I mean the fact that he carved things and stuff showed that he was good at crafts and hand related work in general.

7.) Nanami-Something fancy? Anything that won't require labor haha

8.) Wakaba-She's just a simpleton that I see her having a family with two kids XD But you may never know since she does keep emotions hidden well. She may become someone "special" as she dreamed!

9.) Kozue-Probably joined her brother again in music and could possibly join Miki in the future as a duo.

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