>>"Being obvious was the whole idea," Corwin told her. "Keep
>>people looking at the spectacle so they don't notice the real chicanery.
>>Think of the guy who ran that Black Rose thing... "
>
>On my initial read, my first thought here was "Huh. They remember
>that?". I mean, Akio did a pretty thorough job scrubbing out the Black
>Rose arc of SkU from everybody involved except himself and Anthy.
>Hell, he went so far as to use the weird-ass time warping nature of
>the ongoing failed Tournament to mess with the physical nature of the
>campus. I suppose there have been a lot of opportunities for those
>blocks to get popped off during the Symphony (Utena has been through,
>what, two, three different apotheosis events since then?) but damned
>if I can recall when and if that was made explicit.

If we're talking about the same blocks (to forget Utena and the failed tournament), there were gaps in them, especially among those who knew Utena and took part in that tournament. For example, they did work on Miki - until he saw Utena after she inadvertently brought him across that first Christmas to help Kate. They didn't work on Juri at all - IIRC, she had a photo (or something like that) of Utena and never forgot her in the first place. Juri said she'd been asking people at Ohtori what had happened to Utena, until people, not remembering Utena, started thinking Juri was nuts, at which point Juri stopped asking.

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