>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.

We're not, actually. Akio slapped people with two sets of mindwipes over the course of SkU; the big whammy came at the end, when people either forgot Utena or didn't quite remember things involving her the way they happened. Those aren't the ones I mean.

But there was a second set of blocks he set up within the series itself; after the Black Rose arc ended, he made everyone forget it. Not only did he make them forget it, he altered the physical configuration of the campus literally overnight; after Mikage "graduated," Nemuro Memorial Hall went from Mikage's secret lair of mindfuckery to a burned-out shell, and it's implied that Akio managed to make it so that it always had been a burned-out shell.

From her in-series perspective, Utena jumps straight from her second duel with Touga to her third duel with Saionji, with no Black Rose stuff in-between.

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