LAST EDITED ON Aug-02-01 AT 00:13 AM (EDT)

>Juri's duel: YES! YES! YES! Juri is tremendously cool. Though I will
>note that this scene was the first time I actually felt like I was
>missing something by not having seen most - heck, 36 episodes - of
>Utena. I presume the part where she disarms Eliza is a reference to
>one of her duels in the series?

Yes. It's how her first duel with Utena ended - with the Sword of Dios, having been flung into the sky by a violent disarm maneuver, plummeting down and neatly nicking the rose off Juri's chest while she was busy telling (a clearly defeated but not yet roseless) Utena what a lousy swordfighter she was. Remember Utena musing that she'd never really beaten Juri, and that her first win was just plain dumb luck? Well, there you go.

>Mia's parentage: Oh my. Who's the mother? I presume the full story
>will be told at some point? It had better be, otherwise you're liable
>to be running for your life from a group of crazed otaku.

Crazed otaku don't bother me much anymore. Neon Exodus Evangelion cured me of that.

As for Mia's background, I don't know about the full story - when do we ever get the full story on anything? - but there is more information that will be coming along as she gets to know the others better.

>Nothing further for now. Great work, as always. (And I really enjoyed
>the cue for "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku." It wouldn't be a Rose Duel
>without it.)

That cue's kind of tongue-in-cheek as it appears there - the concrete steps down the bank from the main campus to the football field at WPI ain't exactly the Forest of Secrets - but I'm glad I thought of putting it there, anyway.

I submit that it's not really a Rose Duel without a Rose Bride, either, but hey. :)

--G.
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