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* StayInTheKitchen: After Touga defeats Utena, he tells her to be a normal girl from now on.
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* AlmostHoldingHands: When Utena reaches the arena for the duel, Anthy reaches out a hand to her. Utena, still on the staircase, reaches a hand up toward her. They do not touch.
* BlamingTheVictim: The student council discusses Nanami's duel loss during their meeting, and when Juri and Miki imply that Touga has mistreated Nanami, he replies that no matter who laid the trap, it's the victim's fault for falling for it. There is {{foreshadowing}} in this, since he's setting up an elaborate trap for Utena.
* ColorMotif: The balloons in the student council scene match the theme colors of the main characters. And there are a lot of balloons, but only one violet one - Anthy's color. It rises behind Miki as he reacts to Touga's statement that "if one has deep feelings for a person, it's only a matter of time until those feelings trip one up."
* CracksInTheIcyFacade: Anthy makes admissions about wanting to be more than a solitary bird in a cage that seem heartfelt. But once Utena loses, she takes them all back at Touga's command.
* DramaticSpotlight: When Touga announces himself as Utena's prince, the background of the rose garden fades away (even Anthy fades away) and only Touga and Utena remain, standing in beams of light. The scene is in [[GaussianGirl soft focus]], including the white roses on the spinning rose frame. The spinning roses are blurriest of all and positioned so that they are not fully in frame, indicating that while the nobility of the white rose is being invoked, [[ImpairmentShot something is wrong]].
* InelegantBlubbering: The voice acting for Utena at the end of this episode, especially in Japanese, conveys her devastation in a raw, adolescent way that often gets viewers [[TearJerker choked up]].
* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: Touga's lies to Utena about being her prince work because as much as the prince means to her, she doesn't remember his appearance. She doesn't remember that Touga saw her at her parents' funeral either, so she falls for his [[ColdReading hot reading]] hook, line and sinker.
* ProjectileKiss: Wakaba winks in a flirty way at Utena and pink hearts pop out of her eyes. Utena just does an EyeTake as she watches the hearts drift across the screen.
* RepeatAfterMe: Utena does not seem to notice that by commanding Anthy to agree with her, she is undermining her point about Anthy wanting to be an ordinary girl. Touga absolutely notices, and laughs.
-->'''Utena:''' You hate being treated as the Rose Bride, right? Tell him how you really feel!\\
'''Anthy:''' Yes. I hate being treated as the Rose Bride.
* SheatheYourSword: Touga wins the duel by dropping his guard. Utena hesitates, but her momentum carries her toward him, and he cuts off her rose as she stumbles past.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Touga lays out the philosophy he's been acting under the last several episodes: Caring about other people is weakness. He ''makes'' Utena care about him, and uses it against her.
* StayInTheKitchen:After Touga denies both Anthy's and Utena's efforts to be more than they are:
** He actually tells Anthy to ''stay out'' of the kitchen on the basis that the Rose Bride minds the flowers; she doesn't cook even if she'd like to.
** When he defeats Utena, hetells her attempts to be spin it as a good thing--an opportunity to go back to being a normal girl from now on.girl.
* ThroughHisStomach: A same-gender variant; Wakaba makes a cute bento for Utena as a geture of affection.
* BlamingTheVictim: The student council discusses Nanami's duel loss during their meeting, and when Juri and Miki imply that Touga has mistreated Nanami, he replies that no matter who laid the trap, it's the victim's fault for falling for it. There is {{foreshadowing}} in this, since he's setting up an elaborate trap for Utena.
* ColorMotif: The balloons in the student council scene match the theme colors of the main characters. And there are a lot of balloons, but only one violet one - Anthy's color. It rises behind Miki as he reacts to Touga's statement that "if one has deep feelings for a person, it's only a matter of time until those feelings trip one up."
* CracksInTheIcyFacade: Anthy makes admissions about wanting to be more than a solitary bird in a cage that seem heartfelt. But once Utena loses, she takes them all back at Touga's command.
* DramaticSpotlight: When Touga announces himself as Utena's prince, the background of the rose garden fades away (even Anthy fades away) and only Touga and Utena remain, standing in beams of light. The scene is in [[GaussianGirl soft focus]], including the white roses on the spinning rose frame. The spinning roses are blurriest of all and positioned so that they are not fully in frame, indicating that while the nobility of the white rose is being invoked, [[ImpairmentShot something is wrong]].
* InelegantBlubbering: The voice acting for Utena at the end of this episode, especially in Japanese, conveys her devastation in a raw, adolescent way that often gets viewers [[TearJerker choked up]].
* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: Touga's lies to Utena about being her prince work because as much as the prince means to her, she doesn't remember his appearance. She doesn't remember that Touga saw her at her parents' funeral either, so she falls for his [[ColdReading hot reading]] hook, line and sinker.
* ProjectileKiss: Wakaba winks in a flirty way at Utena and pink hearts pop out of her eyes. Utena just does an EyeTake as she watches the hearts drift across the screen.
* RepeatAfterMe: Utena does not seem to notice that by commanding Anthy to agree with her, she is undermining her point about Anthy wanting to be an ordinary girl. Touga absolutely notices, and laughs.
-->'''Utena:''' You hate being treated as the Rose Bride, right? Tell him how you really feel!\\
'''Anthy:''' Yes. I hate being treated as the Rose Bride.
* SheatheYourSword: Touga wins the duel by dropping his guard. Utena hesitates, but her momentum carries her toward him, and he cuts off her rose as she stumbles past.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Touga lays out the philosophy he's been acting under the last several episodes: Caring about other people is weakness. He ''makes'' Utena care about him, and uses it against her.
* StayInTheKitchen:
** He actually tells Anthy to ''stay out'' of the kitchen on the basis that the Rose Bride minds the flowers; she doesn't cook even if she'd like to.
** When he defeats Utena, he
* ThroughHisStomach: A same-gender variant; Wakaba makes a cute bento for Utena as a geture of affection.
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* WilliamTelling: The GreekChorus plays out William Tell, albeit with the "son" pointing out that it's the 37,919th time in a row the apple has been shot, with the "father" saying that they'll keep going until somebody stops them. There's some point about being [[ViciousCycle trapped in a destined eternal horror]].
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* WilliamTelling: The GreekChorus plays out Shadow players do a riff on the legend of William Tell, albeit with the "son" pointing out that it's the 37,919th time in a row the apple has been shot, with the "father" saying that they'll keep going until somebody stops them. There's some point about being [[ViciousCycle trapped in a destined eternal horror]].
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* WilliamTelling: The GreekChorus plays out William Tell, albeit with the "son" pointing out that it's the 37,919th time in a row the apple has been shot, with the "father" saying that they'll keep going until somebody stops them. There's some point about being [[ViciousCycle trapped in a destined eternal horror]].
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* StayInTheKitchen: After Touga defeats Utena, he tells her to be a normal girl from now on.
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*WhamEpisode: Utena is defeated for the first time and Touga gains possession of Anthy.
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Touga's schemes come to fruition as Utena struggles with the idea of fighting her "Prince" for control of the Rose Bride.
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