Revolutionary Girl Utena: the Manga Reaction!
Chapter Two: Reaction HARDER!
The two women recieved the new magazine with MUCH more wariness than the last one.
"So it stars Juri and Shiori, right?" Utena asked.
"And Ruka is on the cover," Anthy noted glumly. Ruka was a HEAVY spoiler of yuri. Both of them were well aware of THAT.
"How bad could it be?" Utena tried to be optimistic.
"Chiho Saito," Anthy reminded her, the manga author having been much more inclined to hetero couples. And yaoi shipping.
"Well, let's see," Utena sighed and they sat down to read. A few moments later, they both had fairly dubious expressions.
"What," Anthy finally muttered.
"They... kinda swiped the bit from the movie," Utena noted. "Ruka 'died' saving Juri, and haunted her?"
"Which makes no sense with any canon," Anthy shook her head. "And I see Shiori is still a bitch. Dumping Juri for a better duelist and model?"
"And Juri just kind of wins randomly at the end, with the castle from the TV movie appearing," Utena added. "And WHY do I appear as a little girl?"
Anthy shrugged eloquently. "Fuck if I know," she sighed.
Utena shucked the magazine on the table. "Ugh."
"It would have been nice if Juri had at least been left happy," Anthy said as she cuddled closer to Utena on the couch.
"Think she and Shiori were...?" Utena wondered as she put an arm around Anthy.
"I don't know," Anthy sighed.
Suddenly a loud banging came from the front door.
Anthy and Utena looked at each other. "Were you expecting company?" Anthy asked.
"No," Utena said as she strode to the door. She opened it, then blinked in surprise.
Juri was standing with Shiori beside her. "Do you know how HARD it is to track you down?" Juri demanded.
"That IS kind of why we settled here," Utena noted mildly.
Juri just ignored that as she said, "We're here requesting asylum from our manga author."
"WHAT." both Utena and Anthy blinked, Anthy having followed Utena to the doorway.
"She keeps trying to ship me with MEN!" Shiori groaned. "Please!"
"I suppose you can have our spare room until they stop doing new stories," Utena decided after silently communicating with Anthy.
To be continued...
Notes: When I saw it was a Juri and Shiori story, I actually kinda hoped we might see a happy resolution with them.
BWA HA HA HA HA! BWA HA HA HA HA! BWA HA HA HA HA! BWA HA HA HA HA!
Yes, clearly I was an idiot. I was also faintly surprised at how BLATANT the swipe was from the Utena movie. Which, it should be noted, wasn't even made by her and is therefore stealing someone else's work. Huh.
There is apparently a third manga chapter coming! So expect one more of these. Unless it's SO bad I go 'Fuck this' and don't do it.