my absolute favorite piece of extra-canon material are the cd's with the little in-character interviews that came with those anthy and utena dolls. not just for the certified butch utena moment and anthy being silly and funny as always but also the little pieces we get told about utena's childhood after her parents' death. where she did stuff like blowing shit up and getting lost in caves (if i remember it correctly) and also training her "princely sword skills" by swinging a baseball bat a thousand times. such charming pieces of characterization that we never get anything like in the show where we're only told things that are Important to the Narrative. but i love thinking about utena doing dumb shit as a preteen
I'm so excited to see someone bring these up in the wild!!! For those that don't know, there are audio drama CDs packaged with the two Sega figures of Utena and Anthy. Nagumo translated them, and I (Vanna) decided to put the audio to assets from the video game to make videos! I'm really proud of these and I think they're a fun way to expose more people to this kind of smaller meta content. <3
