History Characters / RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheBlackRoseDuelists

* FalseFriend: Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself. This, however, tends to go both ways, as Nanami makes it clear that she views Keiko as more of a servant than a friend and will have her blacklisted if she deems her disloyal, with the other two in the posse [[FairWeatheredFriends following suit.]]

* FalseFriend: Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself. This, however, tends to go both ways, as Nanami makes it clear that she views Keiko as more of a servant than a friend and will have her blacklisted if she deems her disloyal.

* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Eventually turns on Nanami [[spoiler:after Touga feeds her a horrible pack of lies, most prominently the "fact" that he and Nanami aren't related]].

%%* CuteAndPsycho: After snapping.
* FalseFriend: Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself.

%%* GirlishPigtails

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Thinks she's not nearly as great as Utena is.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English), Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiekoHonda (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English), Creator/MonicaManjarrez (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Nakagawa (Japanese), Amanda Goodman [[note]] credited as Mandy Bonhomme [[/note]] (English), Socorro de la Campa (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/TedLewis (English), Creator/IrwinDaayan (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiOrikasa (Japanese), Elizabeth Tarpon (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Nakagawa (Japanese), Mandy Bonhomme (English), Socorro de la Campa (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), Frank Frankson (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NorikoHidaka (Japanese), [[Creator/TaraSands Tara Jayne]] (English)

* ArmorPiercingSlap: The girl can leave a mark. Just ask [[spoiler: Utena]].

* ArmorPiercingSlap: To [[spoiler:Nemuro, once she sees him burn down a certain building...]]

* HotScientist: She became one to try curing her little brother's life-threatening illness. [[spoiler:She failed, and Mamiya ultimately died when Nemuro Hall was burned down.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Wakaba believes the only way she counts as a special person is by keeping Saionji in her room, since he now relies on her. She doesn't realize how important she is overall to the narrative of the story, and isn't [[SocialCircleFiller phased out of the story once the main character becomes associated with the other main characters]], nor does she recognize how many people besides Utena already liked her. When Wakaba becomes a duelist, she is the ''only one'' Utena won't draw the Sword of Dios on and slashes Wakaba's rose using her own strength without ever letting Wakaba fall, something she never does with any of the others. She's the only Black Rose duelist to remain as a supporting character throughout the show without being regarded as a complete SatelliteCharacter, her storyline receives a proper conclusion by the last episode, and in the movie she proves pivotal in helping Utena and Anthy escape from Ohtori.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the SocialCircleFiller characters like Naru from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Wakaba is driven by a desire to be special like Utena and Saionji and knows they have something she doesn't. [[spoiler: So when she finally acquires that special something through Saionji living with her, she begins to enjoy her new status until she realizes it's not permanent. Her happiness turns to rage and, when she becomes one of Mikage's duelist, she doesn't hesitate to try and ''kill'' Anthy and almost murders Utena while screaming about what it's like to get trampled on by the actual special people of the world.]]

* DreadfulMusician: Downplayed since she's not outright terrible, but when Kozue plays the piano in the present day, it's quickly made evident that she's rather mediocre compared to Miki, making a lot of mistakes as she plays. While Miki remembers Kozue being just as skilled as he was when they played duets together, there's clearly some heavy NostalgiaFilter at play.

* PolarOppositeTwins: With Miki. She's rather blunt, tends to sleep around and isn't very good at playing the piano while Miki is polite, a model student and a skilled piano player.

* IllBoy: Had some kind of [[YourDaysAreNumbered terminal illness]], which brings up the question of how he's still around. Of course, the truth is that he died of his illness some time ago and the Mamiya we see now is actually Anthy.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NorikoHidaka (Japanese), Tara Jayne (English)

%%* BeautyMark

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Explicitly calls Utena "my one true love" several times, but this seems to be more of an inside joke between the two of them.

[[folder:Wakaba Shinohara]]
!!Wakaba Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English), Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish)
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Utena's best friend at the onset of the series, Wakaba is an eccentric girl who has a clear obsession with the protagonist. However, its her crush on Saionji that kicks off the plot.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Poor girl is madly in love with a guy who is openly abusive to women. Due to missing the {{Aesop}} of her storyline in the Black Rose arc, it's implied that she will continue with similar romantic obsessions in the future.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: With Saionji, though [[spoiler:by the end of the series she's gotten over him.]]
* ArmorPiercingSlap: The girl can leave a mark. Just ask [[spoiler: Utena]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In the movie, she becomes a car as well allowing the Student Council to help Utena and Anthy. If not for Wakaba, the Locust Cars would've crushed the duo before they could escape.]]
* CoolCar: [[spoiler:Becomes a car]] in the movie. [[spoiler:Hers is much less cool than the other characters' cars, though, possibly representative of her story arc in the series.]]
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Out of all the female Black Rose Duelists, she's the most brutish. She literally rips Saionji's sword ''out of his chest'', and handles Utena like a rag doll in their duel, nearly dragging her friend by her hair.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the SocialCircleFiller characters like Naru from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Wakaba is driven by a desire to be special like Utena and Saionji and knows they have something she doesn't. [[spoiler: So when she finally acquires that special something through Saionji living with her, she begins to enjoy her new status until she realizes it's not permanent. Her happiness turns to rage and, when she becomes one of Mikage's duelist, she doesn't hesitate to try and ''kill'' Anthy and almost murders Utena while screaming about what it's like to get trampled on by the actual special people of the world.]]
* DrivenByEnvy:
-->'''Wakaba:''' [[spoiler:[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "You (Utena), that (Anthy) girl, and the Student Council too! You all look down on people like me! Without a care in the world! You use the special gifts you were born with and without a second thought...trample the rest of us!]]]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: By the end of the series she's no longer pining over Saionji, her friendship with Tatsuya seems to be in a better place (but they don't appear to be lovers) and she now has a new best friend who dotes on her the way Wakaba doted on Utena.]]
* GenkiGirl: To the point that she almost knocks Utena out of windows.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Smacks Utena out of her self-pity when she's going through a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after losing to Touga]].
* TheGlomp: She does this to Utena a lot, almost knocking her out of a window.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Thinks she's not nearly as great as Utena is.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Some analysis declare this is her deal with being in love with Saionji. She sees him as a TroubledButCute guy that just needs [[ThePowerOfLove someone to shows him true love]] [[LoveRedeems to change]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A deep analysis of her character reveals that, as she's conscious that she's just an average girl, she can only feel special when around special people. As Wakaba is an innate nurturer, she feels special when special people, like Utena, rely on her. [[spoiler:When Saionji was freeloading in her room, it was her dream come true: the troubled special guy was relying on her and appreciating her. When she believes that Anthy steals him away, her elevator confession reveals that she felt she was close to becoming special herself but her chance was foiled.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Wakaba believes the only way she counts as a special person is by keeping Saionji in her room, since he now relies on her. She doesn't realize how important she is overall to the narrative of the story, and isn't [[SocialCircleFiller phased out of the story once the main character becomes associated with the other main characters]], nor does she recognize how many people besides Utena already liked her. When Wakaba becomes a duelist, she is the ''only one'' Utena won't draw the Sword of Dios on and slashes Wakaba's rose using her own strength without ever letting Wakaba fall, something she never does with any of the others. She's the only Black Rose duelist to remain as a supporting character throughout the show without being regarded as a complete SatelliteCharacter, her storyline receives a proper conclusion by the last episode, and in the movie she proves pivotal in helping Utena and Anthy escape from Ohtori.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:When she duels Utena, and ''how''. This trope describes all of the Black Rose Duelists, but most of them already had something wrong with them; Wakaba was very innocent and her personality as a duelist is very aggressive.]]
* LoveLetterLunacy: She sends Saionji a love letter. [[KickTheDog He scoffs it, and it ends up put on display and mocked by other students]]. Poor Wakaba collapses crying, and Utena steps in to defend her honor... via challenging Saionji to a duel.
* PaintingTheMedium: During her CharacterFilibuster as a Black Rose duelist, a variation on the theme music associated with the main characters plays, but strained and in a lower key, implying that even though she is doing better than usual, she is still [[TheBeautifulElite not up to par with the more "meaningful" characters she admires]].
* MsExposition: Her role in the first arc is basically to introduce our main characters to Utena. Later on she [[CharacterDevelopment becomes a more complete character]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:The trigger Mikage used to break her was having Saionji give him the handmade hairpin he was planning to give to Wakaba and instead giving it to Anthy. Thinking Saionji gave it to her, Wakaba became a Black Rose duelist and was the only one who actively tried to kill Anthy in the dueling arena before the duel even started.]]
* TheNondescript: Subverted. She thinks she's this and it causes her distress, but she stands out far more than she believes and proves to be a good friend to Utena even if she's not aware of the dueling game.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:During the movie, she took the initiative to transform into a car so Juri, Miki and Saionji could help Utena and Anthy escape Ohtori even though the four of them aren't ready to leave just yet.]]
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Explicitly calls Utena "my one true love" several times, but this seems to be more of an inside joke between the two of them.
%%* StepfordSmiler
* TakeThatAudience: During the Black Rose arc, her character is meant as an indictment of bored, dissatisfied fans who wish they had adventures like those of anime and manga protagonists.
%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Utena's Tomboy and Tomboy to Anthy's Girly Girl.

[[folder:Kozue Kaoru]]
!!Kozue Kaoru
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiekoHonda (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English), Creator/MonicaManjarrez (Latin American Spanish)
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Miki's twin sister, a sexual and in her words "impure" girl who has a complicated and unhealthy relationship with Miki. She refuses to let him become romantically involved with anyone, but intentionally tries to get with everyone in order to aggravate him.

* AmbiguouslyBi: In episode 26, she flirts with Anthy while the two of them are in the car, and even looks like they at least make out. This ends up making Miki lose his focus while he's dueling Utena for the second time. What makes it ambiguous is whether Kozue was sincere in her flirting or just trying to get a rise out of Miki, or was she brainwashed by End of the World, or was she an illusion.
* AscendedExtra: From the manga to the anime, where she gets more fleshed out and a near total personality overhaul.
* AttentionWhore: Deconstructed; her inferiority complex with regards to her brother makes her think that negative attention is the only kind she can get, hence her promiscuous behaviour.
* CharacterExaggeration: Kozue in the manga was a very different character from Kozue in the anime, to say the least. Basically, she was just bratty and overprotective of Miki, and she certainly didn't act promiscuous or shove anyone down flights of stairs.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In the manga, and overtly so.
* CoolCar: [[spoiler:Shows up as one in End of the World's garage]] in the movie.
* CreepyTwins: Miki is not creepy at all (unless you're the type to [[FridgeHorror overthink some things...]]) but Kozue ''more than makes up'' for that!
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue eyes and hair.
* DamselInDistress: Becomes one of these in the manga and light novel, forcing Miki (who, in these versions, had been completely opposed to the dueling game beforehand) to duel against Utena in order to save her.
* DefiledForever: Subverted in ''After the Revolution'', she thinks this is why Miki isn't interested in sleeping with her. He doesn't actually care about that. It is his aversion to {{Twincest}} that stops him.
* DemotedToExtra: In the movie, she doesn't have much of a role compared to the anime.
* DreadfulMusician: Downplayed since she's not outright terrible, but when Kozue plays the piano in the present day, it's quickly made evident that she's rather mediocre compared to Miki, making a lot of mistakes as she plays. While Miki remembers Kozue being just as skilled as he was when they played duets together, there's clearly some heavy NostalgiaFilter at play.
* FauxActionGirl: [[spoiler: As a Black Rose Duelist and the wielder of Miki's soul sword, her poor repertoire is very apparent in her battle with Utena. This refers to the fact that she's nowhere near as competent as her brother, and also a nod to her subpar piano skills in comparison to his.]]
* FreudianExcuse: When Miki was unable to attend their piano recital when they were younger, not only was it revealed Kozue was a sub-par player on her own, but being alone in front of the crowd clearly traumatized her. And while Miki is the series' NiceGuy, he hasn't treated her with the same affection since she stopped playing the piano and [[LovingAShadow projects her childhood self]] onto Anthy. No wonder the girl has [[{{Yandere}} issues]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Don't take her brother's attention from her. Just... don't.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: With Miki; she looks almost identical to him aside from her hair being slightly longer and a different shade of blue. When Utena sees both of them together for the first time, she even comments on how similar they look to one another.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Show attention or attraction to her brother around her, or worse, hurt him? You're in for it big time.
%%* TheNondescript: When she was younger.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: The reason why she puts herself in great danger [[PetTheDog to save an abandoned bird nest placed in the branches of a tree that was about to be cut down]] is that she saw herself in the birdies, as they were abandoned by their bird parents
* ParentalAbandonment: See Miki's section. Kozue isn't exactly fond of their parents.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Miki. She's rather blunt, tends to sleep around and isn't very good at playing the piano while Miki is polite, a model student and a skilled piano player.
* ReallyGetsAround: She invokes this to get Miki's attention.
* SatelliteCharacter: She is only relevant in episodes that heavily focus on Miki.
* ThemeTwinNaming: "''Kozue''" means "treetop" while "''miki''" means "trunk".
%%* TroubledButCute
* {{Twincest}}: Implied, particularly in the movie.
** More blatant in the 20th anniversary manga. Wherein Kozue is openly attracted to her brother, going so far as to try kissing him in his sleep (she was rejected), and actually kissing him when she came to him in the middle of the night, claiming that her husband had abused and potentially sexually assaulted her, claiming she was in love with another man. It was to the point that, after the second mentioned rejection by her brother, she went into a state of catatonia. She does [[CharacterDevelopment make an effort]] to develop a healthier relationship with Miki by the end of the manga, though.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Miki certainly thinks so, and he holds her up on it big time despite the fact that his childhood memories are... biased, to say the least.
* {{Yandere}}: Over [[{{Twincest}} Miki]].

[[folder:Shiori Takatsuki]]
!!Shiori Takatsuki
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KumikoNishihara (Japanese), Creator/LisaOrtiz (English)
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A girl who Juri has a crush on. Shiori, on the other hand, has a bizarre resentment for Juri, and desperately tries to gain power over her in any possible way.

* AdaptationalSexuality: There's [[AmbiguouslyGay decent evidence]] in the series that Shiori is a deeply-closeted lesbian. Shiori in the movie is genuinely attracted to Touga ([[LovingAShadow or her perception of him]]), and shows no sign of reciprocating Juri's feelings.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She has repressed feelings for Juri.
* AscendedExtra: She was only ever really important to the episodes focusing on Juri. [[AdaptationalVillainy She graduated to one of the villains in the movie]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: While no peach in the series, the movie upgrades her to an even more destructive force in Juri's life. [[spoiler: Because she implies Juri was the girl her "prince" drowned trying to save, she manipulates Juri's affections towards her to force Juri to be her prince instead]] and uses this to manipulate her into a duel with Utena.
* AttentionWhore: Shades of this in her character, though it's more like she just wants positive attention from someone who can actually make her feel good about herself.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: A soft-spoken girl capable of extreme cruelty.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Due to her cripplingly low self-esteem. Utena initially thinks Shiori regrets what she did to Juri and nags Juri about forgiving her so they can be friends again, not realizing [[spoiler: Shiori ''is'' upset but only because she used the wrong tactic to hurt Juri.]] She plays this up further in the movie where she's soft spoken as she tries to manipulate Touga into dueling Juri, then manipulates Juri into dueling Utena.
* CoolCar: [[spoiler:Turns into one and attacks Utena]] in the movie.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Utena makes rather quick work of her in their duel.]]
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:As a Black Rose Duelist.]] And in the movie [[spoiler:as a car]].
* DefiledForever: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that she and Ruka [[AutoErotica had sex while in Akio's car]] and because of this and her low self-esteem, it's implied that her over-the-top begging for Ruka to not dump her is because she feels that now nobody would ever want her.]]
* DisturbedDoves: When she [[spoiler:loses her Black Rose duel]].
* DontYouDarePityMe: She rejects Juri's attempt to console her after [[spoiler:Ruka dumps her]]. She's also convinced that the only reason Juri was friends with her in the first place was because she felt sorry for her, which has made her ''extremely'' bitter.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In the movie. While trying to ram Anthy off the road, she doesn't seem to notice that she's about to crash into a fork in the road.
* DrivenByEnvy: Her jealousy of Juri is what first drives her to duel.
* EvilAllAlong: Played with. [[spoiler: Her confession in the elevator reveals she's secretly hated Juri since they were kids, out of jealousy and a sense that Juri only pitied her. She also reveals she purposefully tried to steal that boy when she believed Juri loved him for the sake of hurting her. And once she finds out Juri loves her, she gets pleasure out of knowing how miserable Juri is and wonders where she can take it from there. What stops Shiori from going full on evil is that, deep down, she's really not happy with this situation at ''all'' and wonders why things have to be this way. Mostly because she realizes her biggest problem is that she knows what she's doing is wrong, but is too weak to avoid the temptation.]]
* EvilKnockoff: [[spoiler: As a Black Rose Duelist and wielder of Juri's sword soul; Utena comments that Shiori fights ''exactly'' like Juri, but easily defeats her, referring to Shiori's jealousy of Juri and being second-best compared to her.]]
%%* TheFourLoves
* {{Gayngst}}: Depending on interpretation, part of the reason for her self-hatred is her internalized homophobia towards herself over her feelings for Juri.
* GreenEyedMonster: Believes that Juri was always better than her at everything, and that she was only pretending to be friends with her in order to look down on her.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Truthfully, this is the ''least'' of the problems between Juri and Shiori. [[spoiler:Actually subverted; it's strongly hinted that she has her own romantic feelings for Juri, and this has been confirmed by the director. Their relationship also appears to have improved by the end of the series.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While not exactly acting "superior" she certainly acts a lot more confident than she actually feels, mostly to hide a horrible self image.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Juri calls her "cruelly innocent", referring to the fact that Shiori hurt her without realizing that ''she'' was the person Juri was in love with. Even so, she ''is'' willing to do deliberately harmful things because of her inferiority complex.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In the movie, when, [[spoiler:after she becomes a car]], she rants to Anthy that the only who deserves to escape from Ohtori is "beautiful me. Me. Me. Me! Me! Me, me, me, me, ME!!!"
* LackOfEmpathy: In the movie, while Touga [[spoiler: talks about how he was sold into sexual slavery as a child]], Shiori barely seems to care as she keeps trying to convince Touga to duel Juri while saying how "Disgusting" Juri is because of her locket and the rumor that started because of it. She seems to think what Juri's done to her (how she "Killed" Shiori's prince, the locket) is on the same level as [[spoiler: the horrible abuse Touga was put through]].
* MacabreMothMotif: In the movie. She technically becomes a Cabbage White butterfly, but the disturbing context of the scene as well as what the butterflies represent (mainly parasitism and cruel innocence) are more in line with this trope.
* TheNondescript: Considers herself to be plain in comparison to the beautiful Juri.
* NonUniformUniform: Downplayed in the film, where her uniform is almost the same as the other female students', but with many frills added.
* TookALevelInKindness: In ''After the Revolution'', she's mellowed out considerably over the last twenty years and is now Juri's close friend and manager.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Granted she does try to communicate once and Juri isn't the easiest person to talk to but a lot of her and Juri's relationship issues could be eased if they talked to each other. Shiori's tendency to bottle up her bitter feelings to a festering point really doesn't help her case.
* RedStringOfFate: As seen in Juri's past memories of her in episode 7.
* SatelliteCharacter: She's only relevant in episodes that explicitly focus on Juri. She moved out of this in the movie where she began associating with Touga and even fought Anthy and Utena on her own [[spoiler:and lost]].
* SelectiveObliviousness: When Juri tries to warn her away from Ruka because she's worried about her, Shiori misinterprets her words as jealousy and thinks she's awful for it.
* SelfDeprecation: To the extreme; she calls herself "useless" and cannot believe that anyone could genuinely like her.
* SelfServingMemory: In the movie, as she's recounting her so-called relationship with Touga [[spoiler:before his death]], she mentions that "My Prince and I were going to go steady." Considering he was still in a relationship with Utena at the time, chances are she's either lying or that's how she remembers it. (On the other hand, Touga could very well have been two-timing, even at that young age. This ''is'' [[ReallyGetsAround Touga]] we're talking about, after all, and we only get so much insight into his character in the movie.)
* ShrinkingViolet: She appears friendly on the inside but deep down she suffers from a lack of self-confidence. She doesn't let this trope out until Ruka breaks up with her.

[[folder:Kanae Ohtori]]
!!Kanae Ohtori
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiOrikasa (Japanese), Elizabeth Tarpon (English)
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Akio's fiancee and the heir to the bloodline Ohtori family. Although she loves Akio, she is highly disturbed by Anthy, seeing a lot of passive-aggressiveness in her behavior towards Kanae.

%%* ArrangedMarriage: To Akio.
%%* BigNo: [[spoiler:At the end of her duel.]]
* ContraltoOfDanger: [[spoiler:As a Black Rose Duelist, her sweet and soft voice becomes virulent and gruff.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: When this girl snaps, she ''snaps''. Being practically [[spoiler: {{Mind Rape}}d by Mikage and Mamiya]] did NOT help.
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:The very first one introduced in the Black Rose arc. Her fight with Utena was short, given she's not a Duelist at all, but she does provide Utena with a bit of stress.]]
* DarkMistress: Heavily deconstructed. [[spoiler:She's nothing more than another pawn, as Akio uses sex to control anyone he can; it's even heavily implied that he kills her later, just to demonstrate how ultimately unimportant she was to his plans.]]
* DisposableFiance: She's introduced as Akio's fiancee but [[spoiler: Akio uses her power, cheats on her with everyone including her mother and maybe even literally disposes of her]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Out of all the duelists, Kanae is the only one not shown in the BookEnds montage towards the end. The last we see of her is, well...]]
* MealTicket: [[spoiler:The only reason Akio is with her is so he can stay as the acting chairman and have the planetarium for his personal use.]]
%%* {{Ojou}}: The sweet type.
* PrincessClassic: Kanae is the daughter of a wealthy family, beautiful, elegant, charming, gentle, and seemingly endlessly pleasant. However, it's deconstructed when [[spoiler:her elevator confession shows that she can't handle her darker emotions (like her deep dislike of Anthy), which causes her to be manipulated by Mikage into becoming a Black Rose Duelist. In addition, like many helpless princesses in fiction, Kanae has little power or control over her own life, and is little more than a manipulated pawn for Akio; it's even implied late in the series that he ''kills'' her once she's no longer useful to him.]]
* SanitySlippage: She's really paranoid about Anthy due to the latter's StepfordSmiler nature.
* TeachHerAnger: [[spoiler:Her elevator confession is all about realizing that, no matter how much she tries to like her, Kanae actually ''hates'' Anthy.]]
* TemptingApple: In the third arc, [[spoiler:Akio and Anthy feed a [=BSODing=] Kanae an apple pin-cushioned by forks. It is strongly implied that they're poisoning her, and the apple also obviously stands for Anthy's swords of hate. One of the background music tracks, which normally plays during [[BrotherSisterIncest Akio and Anthy's familial bonding]] is called "Fruit of Sin", as well. Make of that what you will.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Being engaged to Akio gives him the status as the chairman of Ohtori Academy. However, she's nothing more than another pawn, as Akio uses sex to control anyone he can; it's even heavily implied that he kills her later, just to demonstrate how ultimately unimportant she was to his plans.]]

[[folder:Keiko Sonoda]]
!!Keiko Sonoda
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Nakagawa (Japanese), Mandy Bonhomme (English), Socorro de la Campa (Latin American Spanish)
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The second-in-command to Nanami's GirlPosse.

* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Eventually turns on Nanami [[spoiler:after Touga feeds her a horrible pack of lies, most prominently the "fact" that he and Nanami aren't related]].
* BetaBitch: It's clear that Keiko is the one who leads Aiko and Yuuko, judging by the fact that she's often to one to slap Anthy, is usually at the front of the group, and the one who has the most lines and focus.
* BossBanter: [[spoiler:Though most Black Rose Duelists usually ramble on about their means of undergoing corruptions, Keiko's is the most talkative. Granted, none of them were to begin with and their temporary competency comes from the Soul Swords they wield which came from the Council members, but Keiko barely makes an effort to fight Utena and just goes on about her love for Touga.]]
* CinderellaPlot: Subverted. At first, Keiko seems to follow this tale straight to the point of parody, Nanami being a sorta "evil stepmother"... [[spoiler: But then her attitude to her "prince" appears to be much more "rose-bridish" than "cinderella-esque". And as she gets close to Touga at last, she switches roles with Nanami, starting to humiliate her. To crown the subversion, she ends up beaten and "princeless".]]
%%* CuteAndPsycho: After snapping.
* FalseFriend: Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself.
* ForgettableCharacter: Taken to new heights when the audience realizes that Utena doesn't even know her ''name'' until after she duels her and Anthy mentions it to her. The other two members of her GirlPosse have similar names as she does also.
* GirlPosse: A member of Nanami's posse, along with Aiko and Yuuko.
%%* GirlishPigtails
* LettingHerHairDown: Does this once after Nanami makes her miss out on seeing Touga at a party.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: She shares an umbrella with Touga, which enrages Nanami.

[[folder:Mitsuru Tsuwabuki]]
!!Mitsuru Tsuwabuki
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/TedLewis (English), Creator/IrwinDaayan (Latin American Spanish)
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A young boy from Ohtori's elementary school division who has a [[StalkerWithACrush crush]] on Nanami. Being so young, he contemplates the difference between being a child and being an adult.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Deconstructed, as his innocence ends up being quite creepy at times.
* AmbiguousInnocence: He is an AdorablyPrecociousChild who has a crush on Nanami. He also has been stalking her and, at one point, he placed her in a series of deadly situations [[RescueRomance so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''.
* BadassAdorable: Sure, the main characters spend pretty much all their free time having sword fights to bring about the World Revolution (whatever the heck ''that'' means), but all they ever really do is [[ClothingDamage try to knock something off each other’s shirts]]. Nine-year-old Tsuwabuki, on the other hand, gets jumped by ''three'' high-schoolers, and he takes them all. That kid has got ''spunk''. [[spoiler: His duel with Utena lasts longer than Nanami's first, since he utilizes Nanami's blade and dagger combo much earlier than Nanami did. In fact, the only way Utena could beat Tsuwabuki was by first getting the bigger sword out of his hands and ''then'' cutting the rose off.]]
* TheChewToy: His horrible luck is played for utter comedy, even in [[spoiler:his Black Rose episode.]]
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler:In his Black Rose episode he attacks Utena before she can even draw the Sword of Dios; he also puts to good use the intrinsic advantages of dual-wielding against someone with a single weapon.]]
* CreepyChild: Has a cheerful demeanor, but initially places Nanami in a series of deadly situations [[RescueRomance so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''. [[spoiler:Also qualifies during his tenure as a Black Rose duelist where the amount of stress and frustration he was dealing with most likely led to that destructive desire.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Tsuwabuki is practically Nanami's lackey, but he's happy with just being by her side and being useful to her. [[spoiler:In his Black Rose episode, he wants to be more than that and snaps.]]
* DualWielding: [[spoiler:Wields Nanami's sword and knife as a Black Rose duelist.]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He first saw Nanami when she was little and he was at kindergarden.
* IndirectKiss: His chocolate bar, which had a bite taken out by his friend Mari.
* JustAKid: [[spoiler:His Black Rose episode]] make him realize he's still a kid, so he desperately wants to be an adult to be at the same level as Nanami.
%%* LetsGetDangerous
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: When the object of your affection is ''Nanami'' of all people, you have issues.
* ObliviousToLove: To push the tragedy of his one-sided attraction to Nanami further, Tsuwabuki is presumably oblivious to the fact that a girl closer to his age named Mari is through several blatant hints to liking him. He's so focused on [[JustAKid trying to become an adult]] he's ignorant to Mari's feelings and pass off her interactions with him as Mari making fun of him.
* TheOneGuy: The only male student that was lured by Mikage that actually became a Black Rose duelist.
* SatelliteCharacter: For Nanami, serving as her personal lackey and attendant ever since his first appearance.
* StalkerWithACrush: A clipshow episode shows Tsuwabuki following and spying on Nanami since the start of the series. Which leads to him plotting to make her fall in love with him. Surprisingly for this anime, it's only played for laughs.

[[folder:Tatsuya Kazami]]
!!Tatsuya Kazami
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), Frank Frankson (English)
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A boy who Wakaba knew when she was younger. After he arrives at Ohtori during the events of the series, Wakaba continues referring to him by the nickname of "Onion Prince", much to his embarrassment.

* BaitAndSwitch:
** He was sure that [[spoiler:Wakaba]] still had feelings for him like he still has for her, and the ambiguous conversation they have about "being true with your feelings" make it look like they're going to end up together. Then [[spoiler:Wakaba hopes him to found someone special as she thanks him for his advice and goes to see her ''true'' prince, Saionji.]]
** His elevator scene in Nemuro Hall, which ends [[spoiler:with Mikage rejecting him as a candidate to be turned into a duelist]]. This could be because he is [[spoiler:the only visitor who blames himself for his problems, while the other Black Rose Duelists blame someone else]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: To [[spoiler:Wakaba.]] [[spoiler:Upon hearing him confess his self-hatred for not being good enough for Wakaba to love him, Mikage calls him "a genuinely good person" and sends him home instead of turning him into a Black Rose Duelist.]] And immediately afterwards, [[spoiler:Mikage uses this new knowledge to target Wakaba as the next Black Duelist]].
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Prince Onion", since in Japanese referring to something as onion-make means it's shoddy or second-rate.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Over Wakaba. Despite this, he is rejected as a Black Rose Duelist... possibly because he doesn't blame ''her'' for not loving him, but blames ''himself'' for not being good enough for her]].
* NiceGuy: [[spoiler:A theory says that, unlike others, Tatsuya wants a healthy relationship with Wakaba instead of forcing her into being with him, and that's why Mikage said that he's truly a nice person. Others believe he is a "Nice Guy" in the sense he is typical of the type of men who exist in the world and already benefit from the way society treats women, whereas all the other Duelists were told they had to "revolutionize the world" in the sense they must destroy the world as is to get what they want.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To [[spoiler:Wakaba. His frustration with being this and not getting [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend the story ending he wanted]] is what drives him to visit the Mikage Seminar.]]

[[folder:Souji Mikage]]
!!Souji Mikage/[[spoiler:Professor Nemuro]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (Japanese), Creator/DanGreen (English)
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The mysterious head of the Mikage Seminar, an popular institution at Ohtori Academy. Souji has developed a method of creating counterfeit Duelists (called "Black Rose Duelists"), and wishes to use them to overthrow the Rose Crest Duels and End Of The World, in the hope of installing Mamiya Chida as the Rose Bride. Souji uses the student counselling service at the Mikage Seminar to brainwash vulnerable students and transform them into Black Rose Duelists.

* ArcVillain: Of the Black Rose arc.
%%* BuryYourGays: In the manga. Could be [[spoiler:Bury Your Bisexuals]] in the anime.
* TheChessmaster: Of the Black Rose arc. He poses as a counselor to make vulnerable students into opponents for Utena.
* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: Utena realizes that he's responsible for the Black Rose duelists when she discovers that he kept [[spoiler:pictures of all the people he'd brainwashed, in their brainwashed state, and openly displayed them on the walls of Nemuro Hall.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Possibly. It's unclear exactly who "Souji Mikage" is and how he relates to "Professor Nemuro". Souji could be Nemuro's ghost; or a kind of living memory manifested by Nemuro's lingering and idealised memories of childhood, and refusal to accept his actions in burning down Nemuro Hall]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Weaponized, sorta. He approaches young people who are in their lowest emotional states with promises of a chance to change their worlds and end what's making them suffer by defeating Utena: it's specially obvious in the cases of people like [[spoiler: Kanae, Wakaba, Keiko, or Tsuwabuki.]] And then we learn that [[spoiler:Mikage himself also went past the DEH in his backstory, and is pushed even further in the last episode of the Black Rose arc.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: All the duels he enables are this, and usually for a small or perceived slight. [[spoiler:Mikage himself was guilty of this in the past, too; he burned down Nemuro Hall, killing a hundred people in the process, just because he saw the woman he liked making out with another man.]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:Seeing his beloved Tokiko seduced by Akio made him crack ''big time'', and Mamiya's death made things even worse.]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Nemuro Memorial Hall. He does his thing in an elevator decorated with pictures of butterflies (in different stages of development) and a leaf, which leads to a massive underground mausoleum where the bodies of a hundred duelists are stored.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied even he was [[spoiler:creeped out by Tatsuya's declaration that Wakaba will always come back to him no matter how she gets treated and only told him he was a "Good person" just to get him out of Nemuro Hall.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Fiore from the ''Anime/SailorMoon R'' movie, which Ikuhara also directed. In addition to their appearances and role in the narrative, they also have the same seiyuu, Creator/HikaruMidorikawa.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:His memories of Mamiya and what really happened to Nemuro Hall.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Utena, pink hair and all. Utena is straightforward and well-meaning; he is manipulative and cruel. They have some similarities, too-see ShadowArchetype and SpearCounterpart below.
* TheGlassesComeOff: This is reversed with him, who is unable to clearly perceive things ''after'' he loses his glasses.
%%* IAmWhatIAm
* IndirectKiss: Tokiko's LipstickMark on his cup.
%%* IRejectYourReality
* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler:"Mamiya" is actually Anthy in disguise.]]
%%* MacGuffin
* ManipulativeBastard: How he creates Black Rose duelists. He rips them down to their basest instincts and desires, and at their lowest form he convinces them the only way to get what they want is by "revolutionizing the world," under the idea they are horrible and monstrous and can only get what they really desire by destroying the world that frowns upon them.
* MindRape: How he manipulates the Black Rose duelist candidates, via making them tell him their deepest traumas and frustrations and using said knowledge to recruit them to his side. It's a frighteningly good use of the "Mundane" methods.
* MoreThanMindControl: His entire shtick with the black roses.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:''Maybe''. The end of the Black Rose arc suggests he was DeadAllAlong, with Nemuro's lingering memories and regret so powerful that they brought Souji and the Mikage Seminar (and everyone's memories of them) into existence. He may also be a self-propagating mental projection, though you may as well just call that a ghost. More confusingly, his flashback scenes don't even match up with what we know about the timeline from elsewhere.]]
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:The reason Nemuro Hall burned down.]]
* PsychoPsychologist: Poses as a therapist and then brainwashes his patients to try and kill Anthy.
* RealityWarper: The reason for his continued existence: [[spoiler: he treasured the time he spent with Tokiko and Mamiya so much that it essentially paused him in the same state forever, both physically and mentally. Unfortunately for him, Akio and Anthy are also {{Reality Warper}}s]].
* RetGone: [[spoiler:After the Black Rose arc, everyone but Akio and Anthy forgets he was ever there.]]
%%* RoseHairedSweetie: InvertedTrope.
* SanitySlippage: In the final episode of the Black Rose arc. [[spoiler:He's run out of duelist candidates, he realizes he's been Akio's pawn, Utena sees through his bullshit, and he starts hallucinating that she and Tokiko are the same person]].
* ShadowArchetype: Of Utena. Both of them are living their lives to memories whose details are so far-off that they've grown blurry and idealized (Mikage's love for Tokiko, Utena and her Prince). It opens up the question of how healthy Utena's desire to be a prince is and if she's in danger of slipping down a dark path for her pursuit of the past. [[spoiler:Though they both suffer the same fate (vanishing from the school and being mostly forgotten), Utena's has a far more positive twist than his]].
* SignatureMove: He's ambidextrous.
%%* SingleTear
* SpearCounterpart: To Utena--pink hair, attached to a submissive person in an engagement type of situation (whose looks and names are quite similar) motivated by idealized memories.
** Driven home even further by the ''After the Revolution'' manga, in which Utena's role (of drawing her old peers back into the dueling arena to confront their problems) is a benevolent reversal of Mikage's.
%%* SpookyPhotographs
* TakeThatAudience: You know how [[ThisLoserIsYou some adult anime fans]] watch series with teenage protagonists, thereby living vicariously through an idealized and romanticized version of their younger years that they never quite had? And you know how by staying at Ohtori, Mikage continues to exist by living in a fantasy world built around an idealized and romanticized version of his younger years? ''Yeah.''
* TheStoic: Was described as being akin to a "human computer."
* TeenGenius: A professor at just 18.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Man could ''really'' have used one. He also functions as a twisted version of a therapist in the Black Rose arc, urging the students who visit him to confess their psychological problems... Of course, having [[PsychoPsychologist Mikage]] listen to your issues is ''really'' not a good way to solve them.
%%* TomatoSurprise
%%* TragicVillain
* UnwittingPawn: His plan is to overthrow End Of The World and seize control of the Rose Crest Duels. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Akio has been using him from the very start to research ways to develop stronger Duelists and Soul Swords, and as a scapegoat for the dirtier parts of the research (such as murdering one hundred children as fodder for the creation of the Black Rose Duelists)]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has pinkish white hair and gets people to duel by pushing them to their breaking point.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Inverted with Mikage convincing the Black Rose Duelists that their baser, worse instincts are who they really are and thus they are ''worse'' than they think they are. The black roses then freeze the duelists in their respective horrible aspects and thus they try to "revolutionize the world" so it is okay for them to keep existing as these people.

[[folder:Mamiya Chida (Spoiler Character)]]
!!Mamiya Chida
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariaKawamura (Japanese), Creator/LiamOBrien (English)
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Mikage's associate who is assisting him with the growing of roses for his duelists. His purpose is to be the new Rose Bride in Anthy's place. He's a WalkingSpoiler, so all entries for this characters are unmarked.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has dark skin and a bindi despite having a fully Japanese name. It turns out that the real Mamiya had a lighter skin tone; the only reason he appears AmbiguouslyBrown is because Anthy is impersonating him.
* DeadAllAlong: The real Mamiya died some decades ago, while Mikage was still a professor.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Anthy takes over his identity to fool Mikage into believing that Mamiya is still alive.
* FacialMarkings: Wears a bindi, just like Anthy, since Anthy is actually impersonating him.
%%* IdenticalStranger: To Anthy. Considering that the Mamiya we see ''is'' actually Anthy, and that his real appearance was completely different, this is actually subverted.
* IllBoy: Had some kind of [[YourDaysAreNumbered terminal illness]], which brings up the question of how he's still around. Of course, the truth is that he died of his illness some time ago and the Mamiya we see now is actually Anthy.
%%* SpearCounterpart: To Anthy, since he looks like a male version of her. Subverted, since Mamiya really ''is'' Anthy.
* TheStoic: Tends not to show much emotion.
* UnPerson: No one but Mikage and the Black Rose Duelists know he exists, and they forget him once their roses are destroyed.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without revealing that we don't actually know anything about him, since the one we see is Anthy.
* YouthfulFreckles: The real Mamiya had freckles.

* UnwittingPawn: His plan is to overthrow End Of The World and seize control of the Rose Crest Duels. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Akio has been using him from the very start to research ways to develop stronger Duelists and Soul Swords, and using him as a scapegoat for the dirtier parts of the research (such as murdering one hundred children as fodder for the creation of the Black Rose Duelists)]].

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Possibly. It's unclear exactly who "Souji Mikage" is and how he relates to "Professor Nemuro". Souji could be Nemuro's ghost, or a kind of simulacrum created by Akio and based off Nemuro's hazy childhood memories]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied even he was [[spoiler: creeped out by Tatsuya's declaration that Wakaba will always come back to him no matter how she gets treated and only told him he was a "Good person" just to get him out of Nemuro Hall.]]

[[folder:Souji Mikage/[[spoiler:Professor Nemuro]]]]

The mysterious orchestrator of the Mikage Seminar, where students can come to confess their problems to him. Most of the time, he ends up [[MindRape psychologically breaking them]] somehow and turning them into Black Rose duelists who try to kill the Rose Bride.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Possibly. It isn't clear whether or not he died in the fire he started at Nemuro Hall years ago, though the fact that he hasn't aged since then may indicate that he's a ghost of sorts.]]

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:''Maybe''. The end of the Black Rose arc suggests he was DeadAllAlong, but reality seems to get overwritten at that point. It's theorized that he might be a self-propagating mental projection, though you may as well just call that a ghost. More confusingly, his flashback scenes don't even match up with what we know about the timeline from elsewhere.]]

* RealityWarper: The reason for his continued existence: he treasured the time he spent with Tokiko and Mamiya so much that it essentially paused him in the same state forever, both physically and mentally. Unfortunately for him, Akio and Anthy are also {{Reality Warper}}s.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Akio, who had him under control the whole time]].

* CinderellaCircumstances: Subverted. At first, Keiko seems to follow this tale straight to the point of parody, Nanami being a sorta "evil stepmother"... [[spoiler: But then her attitude to her "prince" appears to be much more "rose-bridish" than "cinderella-esque". And as she gets close to Touga at last, she switches roles with Nanami, starting to humiliate her. To crown the subversion, she ends up beaten and "princeless".]]

* NotSoDifferent: The reason why she puts herself in great danger [[PetTheDog to save an abandoned bird nest placed in the branches of a tree that was about to be cut down]] is that she saw herself in the birdies, as they were abandoned by their bird parents

* NotSoDifferent: With Utena, and their similar coloration intentionally highlights this.

[[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaUtenaTenjou Utena Tenjou]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAnthyHimemiya Anthy Himemiya]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAkioOhtori Akio Ohtori]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheStudentCouncilMembers The Student Council Members]] | '''The Black Rose Duelists''' | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

** His elevator scene in Nemuro Hall, which ends [[spoiler:with Mikage rejecting him as a candidate to be turned into a duelist]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: To [[spoiler:Wakaba.]] [[spoiler:Upon hearing him confess, Mikage rejects him for the Black Duels and sends him home.]] And immediately afterwards, [[spoiler:he uses said knowledge to put Wakaba as the next Black Duelist in line.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Over Wakaba. But curiously, he's rejected for Mikage as a Black Duelist, despite having a genuine load of issues with him, like the other duelists.]]
* NiceGuy: [[spoiler:A theory says that, unlike others, Tatsuya wants a healthy relationship with Wakaba instead of forcing her into being with him, and that's why Mikage said that he's truly a nice person. Others believe he is a "Nice Guy" in the sense he is typical of the type of men who exist in the world and already benefit from the way society treats women, whereas all the other Duelists were told they had to "Revolutionize the world" in the sense they must destroy the world as is to get what they want.]]

* ThatOneGuy: The only male student that was lured by Mikage that actually became a Black Rose duelist.

* ObliviousToLove: To push the tragedy of his one-sided attraction to Nanami further, Tsuwabuki is presumably oblivious to the fact that a girl closer to his age named Mari is through several blatant hints to liking him. He's so focused on [[JustAKid trying to become an adult]] he's ignorant to Mari's feelings and pass off her interactions with him as Mari making fun of him..