I felt it perfectly apropos. Nobody's expecting her to be a great fighter, but she'll never again end up in a tight spot like the one she just got out of, that's for sure.

>Saionji, student of the Shadow Arts!
>PJM

Saionji is ten ninjas?

>2670 I was shocked by the number of readers who didn't get this
>joke. Babylon 5 was blue, Babylon 4 was green - doesn't anybody teach
>the rainbow spectrum in grade school any more?

I'd always learned it as ROY G BIV, and while close, purple is not exactly the same as indigo. But eh, they can't all work out for everyone.

>3043 In retrospect, this whole Valiant thing fails on a
>few levels. Don't get me wrong, it led to some satisfying moments,
>but it's such a huge and abrupt departure from what's gone before that
>it jars the sensibilities, not to mention that it has a tendency to
>stretch many readers' credulity.

I thought it worked out fine. Utena's hardly the type to stay idle; I remain convinced that if you hadn't given her something outrageous to do, she'd have found something outrageous anyway.