Can any weebs help me out here? I'm watching revolutionary girl Utena, and about 15 minutes into episode 35 chuchu is wearing this eye mask.
and I was like... wait I've seen that someplace before... where have I seen that. And then I remembered a relatively obscure anime from the early 2000s called Karas. Which has a character Yurine, with the same one eye open style mask.
Just based on the release dates, it seems like the Karas one was inspired by this Utena one, but I can't seem to find any definitive answers about their correlation. Maybe they are both based on something else? They are somehow related for sure. Too fucking similar to not be. I just can't find any correlation myself.
I will keep looking and report back if I find anything.














