Revolutionary Girl Utena/Fanfic Recs

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These are recommendations made by Tropers for Revolutionary Girl Utena fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.

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Authors and Websites

Symphony of the Sword by Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

• Recommended by User:Looney Toons
• Synopsis: In her second year at Worcester Prep, a prestigious private school on Earth, fourteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hutchins acquires a new roommate—a pink-haired girl with haunted eyes, named Utena Tenjou. Although both are wounded in their souls they bond, becoming fast friends—a friendship which ultimately changes the fates of many worlds.
• Comments: Probably the Most Triumphant Example of an Utena Continuation fic to be found anywhere on the Net. This is a story that takes a post-series Utena from Broken Bird to Warrior Prince and beyond, as one of a group of teens who are clearly growing into the future movers and shakers of the galaxy. Filled with moments of Awesome, Funny and Heartwarming, and is never untrue to the flavor of the series, even when it ranges far, far beyond it. The Mega Crossover nature of Undocumented Features, the greater overall story cycle of which it is part, may be off-putting for some readers, but if one persists, it fades into the background and you just accept every new element that comes along without thinking about it.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

Archimage by Jude McLaughlin

• Recommended by User:Looney Toons
• Synopsis: Years after the events of the series, Utena and Anthy have finally reunited and now live together. But Akio's not yet ready to let go of them yet, and events seem to conspire to force them to gather together the rose duelists to confront him one final time.
• Comments: Very well written, narrated by a wonderfully characterized Utena who seems to view her life with that mix of amazement and amusement that you can sometimes see in the eyes of the animated version. This story is complete.

Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Ten Years After by Chris Davies

• Recommended by User:Looney Toons
• Synopsis: Ten years after the events of the television series, Juri Arisugawa receives a mysterious, anonymous invitation to a reunion of those involved in the Rose Duels that lifts the fog over her memories of the Rose Tournament. Curious, she attends—but no one whom she meets there admits to being the one who sent the invitations, and both Anthy and Utena are missing...
• Comments: Although part of a much larger story cycle, Ten Years After does not require familiarity with that cycle and stands well on its own. It has awesome and tear-jerking moments equal to anything in the series, which is quite an accomplishment for so short a fic.

Ma Vie Et Roses by Scott Johnson and Scott Jamison

• Recommended by User:Looney Toons
• Synopsis: What would happen if you got self-inserted into an anime you knew almost nothing about? Ma Vie Et Roses attempts to answer that question and subvert the Self Insert paradigm at the same time. Anime fan Skyler Sands wakes up to find himself the newest Rose Duelist at Ohtori Academy—not that he knows that at first. All he knows is that he's been involuntarily shoved into an anime; he eventually works out which one, but he's damned if he can figure out why, or what he's supposed to do there.
• Comments: Fun subversion of the self insert fic genre. One of the authors, who was genuinely unfamiliar with the series at the time, wrote the actions of the pseudo-Author Avatar Skyler Sands, while the other wrote the rest of the fic around him. Acting out of true ignorance, Skyler manages to thread his way through the main action while still ranging far afield (such as ending up joining the Shadow Girls' avante-garde theatre group). Skillful execution on the parts of its authors — and ignorant yet Genre Savvy Skyler — make this an entertaining read. Sadly it's (everybody in chorus now) a Dead Fic, abandoned some twenty years ago. Even so, there's about half a megabyte of inspired work there.

Jaquemart by Alan Harnum

• Recommended by SuddenFrost
• Synopsis: Utena and Anthy are living together in relative peace in Hokkaido, when Utena learns from a newspaper article that a young boy has been killed in a duel in Ohtori Academy. Realizing that Akio is continuing his old work she is determined to stop him, but Anthy is unwilling to ever get involved with Ohtori's affairs again. Going after the enemy alone, Utena manages to gather unlikely allies from some former members of the Student Council, while Anthy discovers painfully that the past isn't willing to let her go, and decides to take reins in her own hands.

Beneath the Skin by Alan Harnum

• Recommended by Glasswalker
• Synopsis: This fic sets its focus on Nanami, who struggles to redefine herself in the wake of the series finale, and finds inspiration in an unexpected source. Well-written and -characterized, this fic also does what few other fanfics manage: presenting a post-series Akio as a redeemable figure without putting him in leather pants.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

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