Well I was curious which three you would pick! THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME ONES TO CHOOSE FROM. Although I do admit that none of these choices surprise me at all. But some of them could've gone otherwise. :p
Utena: ummm. See, I am handicapped because web_of did the same canon up there, and she picked awesome ones, and I am torn between agreeing with her entirely or picking different ones partly out of pure contrariness!
Anthy: She starts out such a cipher -- and she stays one, in some ways, but she's so complicated, and there's a young woman under all that weight of role and allegory. I love her for her spite and her stubbornness and her cruelty and the way she giggles at elephant flip books and adopts snails. I love that she starts out being the damsel, and turns out to be the witch who wouldn't be a princess, and turns out to just be Anthy.
Juri: She is so messed up. So messed up. And she knows that so is everyone else around her and so is the system, but she can't break out of it anyway. She's in love with a dead guy and a girl who toys with her for fun, she says she doesn't believe in miracles but she fights to find one, and she's the only person who ever loses a duel on her own terms.
Nanami: I very nearly did Utena, because I adore her, but Utena's the protagonist and I'm contrary. The thing about Nanami is that she's an irritating, emotionally incestuous laughingstock with no sense of proportion and no sense of reality, and her plotlines reflect that -- until suddenly she isn't, and they don't, and she's one of the most human characters on the screen and it's her eyes we're seeing through. It's Nanami's viewpoint we're agreeing with when she says no, that's fucked up, that's WRONG, NO, and suddenly you find yourself caring about her very real desperation. And that's a kind of table-turning I love.
(See how I'm being good and stopping the chain there?)
I have an appropriate icon now!
Utena: ummm. See, I am handicapped because
Anthy: She starts out such a cipher -- and she stays one, in some ways, but she's so complicated, and there's a young woman under all that weight of role and allegory. I love her for her spite and her stubbornness and her cruelty and the way she giggles at elephant flip books and adopts snails. I love that she starts out being the damsel, and turns out to be the witch who wouldn't be a princess, and turns out to just be Anthy.
Juri: She is so messed up. So messed up. And she knows that so is everyone else around her and so is the system, but she can't break out of it anyway. She's in love with a dead guy and a girl who toys with her for fun, she says she doesn't believe in miracles but she fights to find one, and she's the only person who ever loses a duel on her own terms.
Nanami: I very nearly did Utena, because I adore her, but Utena's the protagonist and I'm contrary. The thing about Nanami is that she's an irritating, emotionally incestuous laughingstock with no sense of proportion and no sense of reality, and her plotlines reflect that -- until suddenly she isn't, and they don't, and she's one of the most human characters on the screen and it's her eyes we're seeing through. It's Nanami's viewpoint we're agreeing with when she says no, that's fucked up, that's WRONG, NO, and suddenly you find yourself caring about her very real desperation. And that's a kind of table-turning I love.
(See how I'm being good and stopping the chain there?)