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[[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaUtenaTenjou Utena Tenjou]] | '''Anthy Himemiya''' | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAkioOhtori Akio Ohtori]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheStudentCouncilMembers The Student Council Members]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheBlackRoseDuelists The Black Rose Duelists]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]
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!!'''Anthy Himemiya'''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikoFuchizaki (Japanese), Sharon Becker (English), Creator/RocioPrado (Latin American Spanish)
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The Rose Bride of the dueling games, she becomes engaged to whoever can best her current betrothed in a duel. It is said that this person shall gain from her the power to bring the world revolution. She has little autonomy of her own and is unpopular with most students, but she is coveted by the duelists of the Student Council due to her role in their game.
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* AdaptationalConsent: Exactly how willing she is when it comes to [[spoiler:her incestuous relationship with Akio]] varies by the medium, with the movie being the clearest case of it ''not'' being willing (and even that's muddled slightly by the revelation that [[spoiler:she was awake the whole time he was molesting her after he tried to drug her]]).
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, she originally had very dark brown hair, brown eyes, and wore a white dress. When the anime attained popularity, her colour scheme in the manga was retroactively changed.
* AGodIAmNot: She is the Rose Bride, the [[spoiler:immortal or possibly undying]] holder of the all-powerful Sword of Dios. She just wants to be a normal girl and is generally depressed about being the Rose Bride. [[spoiler:In truth, her pain runs far deeper than that because of her abusive brother who allows her to be constantly stabbed by the Swords of Hate. She eventually leaves her brother with the help of Utena.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nobody at Ohtori is friends with her. In the first arc, we saw her getting cornered (usually by Nanami's gang), berated, and slapped almost OnceAnEpisode. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that part of her role as the Rose Bride is to bear the hatred of the world for taking Dios away from them.]]
%%* AllTakeAndNoGive: The Giver, with her betrothed as the Taker [[spoiler:though only Akio is the true taker]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: She has dark skin and wears a bindi, but her surname is Japanese and her given name is Greek. [[spoiler:Flashbacks to her and Akio's past also seem to depict medieval Europe, further muddling the issue]]. Her ethnicity is never actually specified. The whole getup gives her a very exotic look compared to other students.
** If it's not exoticism, it may count as a GeniusBonus--she's technically implied to be a [[spoiler:deity, and Japanese Buddhism has cultural osmosis from as far as Greece, not to even mention South Asia]].
* BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's actually what the barrier's ''preventing from getting out'' of Ohtori (that, and her own despair).]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's unfailingly polite, pleasant, and faithful to Utena and everyone as a student and the Rose Bride, but as the series goes on, it becomes clear she has a dark side that she typically shows through passive-aggressiveness. [[spoiler:And, in the last arc, through stabbing Utena InTheBack.]]
%%* TheBigDamnKiss: With [[spoiler:Utena in the movie.]]
%%* BloodBrothers: With Utena.
* BrokenBird: At first it just seems like she's friendless and a prize in the Student Council's fights, which is bad enough. [[spoiler:Then we find out she's been tormented and caught in an abusive relationship with her fallen princely brother for ''centuries'' after being stabbed by a mob of townspeople for trying to save him.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Although it at first appears to be consensual, it's made clear a few episodes later that Akio does not accept refusals, or even hesitation.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After Utena is {{ret gone}}d for reaching her, she calmly changes her clothes, [[LettingHerHairDown lets her hair down]], goes to Akio's office with Chu-Chu on her shoulder and her travel bag in her hands, tells him she's leaving Ohtori to [[IWillFindYou find Utena]], and finally is able to take command of her own life. The last time she's seen, she and Chuchu are happily WalkingTheEarth, hoping to meet up with Utena someday.]]
* CatchPhrase: In the next episode preview: "Absolute destiny apocalypse."
* CompressedHair: She manages to compress her thigh-length hair down into a horizontal roll.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Downplayed. She has potential to fight back, but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't let her do this directly.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy ends the dueling game and saves herself from her oppressive role as the Rose Bride. She decides to leave Ohtori and walks out. Utena provided the impetus and the resolve.]]
* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler:Her role as the Rose Bride hinders this. While physically she ''can'' pull this off, her emotional/psychological damage is way too serious.]]
* DesignatedVictim: In the first arc, you could start a drinking game based on how many times she gets slapped.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dios and Anthy crossed this in their backstories, which is what shaped them into Akio Ohtori the ManipulativeBastard and Anthy Himemiya the Rose Bride.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Something that creeps out a lot of the people around her, especially her soon-to-be sister-in-law Kanae.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Of a sort. She's instrumental to Akio's schemes and loyal to him, but it's also made clear she's only performing the "princess" role by rote. When Utena gives her reason to stand up for herself, she cheerfully leaves him behind.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:When she sees the effects of Akio's manipulation on Utena (blaming herself because she MUST follow his will no matter what) she tries to throw herself off the roof of the dorm. Utena stops her, though.]]
** And in the movie, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that she was about to do this before Utena shows up in the Rose Garden before their dance]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Given that her final scene in the movie has her [[spoiler:having sex with (or at least making out with while both were completely naked) Utena]] while speeding down a highway in a heavily damaged race car with no seatbelts, it's clear she took lessons from her brother on the importance of staying in control of the vehicle at all times.
* EmotionlessGirl: She rarely shows any emotions other than a placid smile, and it's noted to be creepy by a few other characters. [[spoiler:Subverted as she's more emotionally repressed than actually emotionless due to her abusive brother.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:When she leaves Akio, Anthy lets her PrimAndProperBun down. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: She is actually described as being "less forceful than a doormat", but the truth is a [[ObfuscatingStupidity bit different]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless personality]] is just a cover for her collusion with her brother, [[DoubleSubversion double subverted]] when she actually is an ExtremeDoormat to him, though she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. In any case, she's far from emotionless to the point where [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation some fans consider her worse than Akio]]. She theoretically ''can'' rebel against her destiny as a fallen princess / WickedWitch, but has to choose between eternal torture and returning to the outside world which brought about her torture into the first place.]]
* FacialMarkings: Wears a bindi.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The swords of hate, always stabbing her in every single uncovered inch of her body...combined with the understanding that taking them for Dios turned him into Akio, rendering all of her pain utterly pointless.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: When Utena asks her what is femininity, she answers that all girls are like the Rose Bride; as the Rose Bride, she has been an ExtremeDoormat and a StepfordSmiler trapped in a cycle of abuse. [[spoiler:Later, when she stabs Utena InTheBack, she tells Utena that she can't be her prince because she's a girl.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Downplayed. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* FirstNameBasis: With the exception of Utena, most of the cast calls her by her first name.
* FlowerMotifs: All the characters are associated with roses of various colours, but being the Rose Bride, the rose motif is especially strong with her.
* FriendToAllLivingThings:
** Not in an over-the-top way, but she clearly has an affinity with animals, more so than with humans.
** It's also hinted that if you mistreat an animal, she'll calmly curse you [[AnimalsHateHim to be hated by all of them]]. You heard that, Nanami?
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In Episode 8, she's perceived as this when she switches bodies with Utena, who as Anthy is bullied and slapped by Keiko. Anthy!Utena thought it was about time Keiko learned her lesson, and struck back. Even better in the [[http://a.mhcdn.net/store/manga/3178/016.5/compressed/scan0010.jpg?v=1225926966 manga]] when Anthy!Utena nearly goes to town on the girls.
* GirlInABox: [[spoiler:Her body's in a coffin]].
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She deconstructs the DamselInDistress role as she does have the potential to fight back (but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't allow her to) and saves Utena and herself in TheMovie. She also has domestic skills like cleaning, likes snails and snakes, is more sexually aggressive towards Utena in TheMovie, wears armor and rides on a horse in the opening scene versus her standard attire of dresses, and isn't that great of a cook. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:When she sleeps with Akio. It's also done more poignantly in the final episode, when she leaves her glasses on Akio's desk before leaving the school for good to search for Utena.]]
* GodivaHair: Though the circumstances are of the FanDisservice variety.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: [[spoiler:She ends up being both and varies between them. In the end, she decides to be a "good witch" and throws off her brother for good.]]
* GrewASpine: She starts out as not standing up against her tormentors, though [[spoiler:she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. However, in the GrandFinale, she leaves her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth with Chuchu in search of her best friend Utena.]]
* TheHecateSisters: She can be seen as all three depending on the situation: the maiden in her role as the Rose Bride, the wife for the duelists, and the witch/crone [[spoiler:as Akio's "partner"]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Thanks to Utena' determination to save her, Anthy finally frees herself from Akio's endless quest for power via the dueling game and leaves him forever.]]
%%* HiddenDepths: Too much to sum up here, but suffice to say that [[spoiler:her smiles and happy demeanor are all put on]].
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. [[spoiler:She is known in ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'' as a WickedWitch who sealed the light of the Rose Prince away in her castle out of spite that a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch. The story fails to mention how she chose to save her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
%%* HopeIsScary: [[spoiler:One of the possible reasons why she ends up stabbing Utena.]]
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:Anthy was subjected to this at the hands of an angry mob for sealing Dios away long ago, and she still has to endure the pain of constantly being skewered by the Swords of Hate as a scapegoat for humanity's rage toward the Prince who lost his faith and then abandoned his people.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler:Akio throws Anthy in front of Utena during her assault during their duel.]]
* ImmortalityHurts: [[spoiler:Anthy is an immortal "WickedWitch" (and implied PhysicalGod), doomed to forever serve as TheScapegoat for humanity's fury over "losing" their Prince, which manifests as a million swords constantly stabbing her body.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Anthy put herself between a mob and her brother, and thus got impaled (on-screen but in [[ShadowDiscretionShot silhouette]]) with "The Million Swords of Humanity's Hatred". Of course, only some of them are actually visible in most of these scenes, but in the GrandFinale, all one million are shown in their full glory, all seeking to impale poor Anthy simultaneously.]]
* InTheBack: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
* IWillFindYou: Anthy sets out to find [[spoiler:Utena]] at the end of the anime version, since [[spoiler:Utena's genuine desire to help her (a opposed to her former white-knighting) finally gives Anthy the courage to break the cycle of abuse she was trapped into. So as soon as she can, she gets ready to leave Ohtori Academy and tell Akio that she's no longer his pawn and that even if Utena was erased from the world, she'll find her no matter what.]]
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* JadeColoredGlasses: She's long since given up any hope of escaping her fate as the Rose Bride, and thus Utena's continued efforts to free her cause her either consternation or shock.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In the second ending sequence with Utena.
* LadyAndKnight: The Lady to Utena's Knight. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, since it's shown that being the "Lady" is a very stifling and limited position to have.]]
* LadyInRed: In the anime version, Anthy wears a red dress during the Rose Duels as she's the bride and the prize of the dueling game. She doesn't behave in a particularly sexual manner, but she is an object of desire for a few males in the cast. [[spoiler:She's sleeping with her brother and serves as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], but [[RapeAsDrama not by choice]].]]
%%* LanguageOfMagic
* LethalChef: Her cooking has... [[FreakyFridayFlip interesting side effects]] [[spoiler:though this may be intentional.]]
* LettingHerHairDown: We see her wearing her hair down more often (usually at night) as she and Utena become closer. [[spoiler:Also when she's in bed with Akio.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Wakaba basically describes Anthy as this in the first episode.
%%* LongHairIsFeminine:
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:To Akio, and how. Eventually ends up being subverted when she realizes Akio isn't worthy of it, and she leave him far behind.]]
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Utena's love redeems her and gives her the courage to leave Akio.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:In ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'', her fictionalized version manipulates her brother into trapping himself in her castle by warning him that a witch in the castle seeks to seal the Rose Prince away from the world. Subverted when it turns out that she only saved her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Anthy" is derived from the Greek word "''ánthos''" for "flower" and is similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea Anthea, an epithet for the Greek Goddess Hera]]. Note that Dios is another name for Zeus, Hera's brother-husband. ''Himemiya''" means "princess shrine".
* {{Meganekko}}: Anthy's gentle and intelligent nature seems to fit the role, though her apparent ditziness is explained in a dark and extreme subversion later on. Lampshaded when the GrandFinale reveals that [[spoiler:Anthy doesn't even NEED to wear glasses, and was seemingly wearing them at Akio's order, most likely to make her look more submissive and timid. When she finally breaks ties with him, she illustrates this by taking off her glasses and leaving them on his desk, and heading out into the world without them.]] This is hinted at in one of the next episode previews much earlier in the series [[spoiler:where Anthy casually remarks that she can see better WITHOUT her glasses.]]
* MessianicArchetype: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:She was killed by an angry mob when she tried to protect her brother, came back to life and has to bear the sins of humanity from then on. However, the anime shows that someone who is defined solely by sacrifice, suffering and martyrdom will eventually be warped into a bitter shadow of themselves. Furthermore, taking on someone else's sins and burdens does nothing good to them, as it generates guilt and eventually resentment and teaches that they can avoid consequences.]]
* MultiethnicName: Her given name is derived from a Greek word and her family name is Japanese.
%%* MysteriousWaif:
* NeutralFemale: She can be seen as this for roughly 90% to 95% of the series. In fact, the series could be seen to deconstruct the trope that women ought to ultimately obey their 'prince' and have no life of their own. [[spoiler:As punishment for being a witch who sealed [[KnightInShiningArmor Dios]] away]], Anthy was cursed to be in the role of the Rose Bride, passed around from person to person based on the outcome of the dueling game. As Anthy saw herself as an empty shell with no heart, she went along submissively. She starts to try doing what she wanted only when she becomes friends with Utena who encouraged her to obey her own will.
* OneNoteCook: She sticks to shaved ice. Any other meal she cooks up tend to have [[FreakyFridayFlip very interesting side-effects]], which may or may not be intentional.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The rare times she shows any emotion aside for her DissonantSerenity it's because something big, seriously wrong, or both, are happening.
%%* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Anthy is a master at this, though it's also {{deconstructed|trope}} in that it's the only way she ''can'' fight back, having been [[spoiler:emotionally anesthetized by years of emotional and sexual manipulation by her ManipulativeBastard brother Akio. The ''one'' time Anthy talks straight to the point is when, after Utena's HeroicSacrifice for her, she manages to break the cycle of abuse [[ButNowIMustGo and walks out on Akio]], leaving Ohtori with Chuchu [[IWillFindYou to find Utena]].]]
%%* PeekABangs: Vulnerability and Drama variant. [[spoiler:Anthy, whose hair is always in a PrimAndProperBun, is shown late in the series LettingHerHairDown in situations where she's especially broken or vulnerable due her status as [[FateWorseThanDeath the Rose Bride]]. During the final battle between Utena and Akio, Anthy's hair briefly takes this look to show just how utterly ''[[DespairEventHorizon broken]]'' she is.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: She almost always wears a placid, vapid smile. This, in addition to her DissonantSerenity, is noted by other characters to be creepy and unsettling.
* PersonOfHolding: Saionji and then Utena draw the dueling sword from her body.
* PrimAndProperBun: In the television version, she usually wears her hair in a horizontal roll above the neck.
* PrincessClassic: While she isn't a royal, Anthy otherwise fits this trope. She is a demure DamselInDistress, a FriendToAllLivingThings, an object of desire for a few males in the cast, has long hair, and wears a fancy red dress as the Rose Bride. She is also a tragic look at this trope, as she has no control over her future and it's passed to the current winner of the dueling game. Not to mention, when she confesses a desire of learn to cook like Wakaba, Touga laughs at the idea of the Rose Bride cooking and that her only priority is taking care of the rose like a princess who is only there to be pretty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Her hair is black in the manga, but the anime series and movies render it purple.
* RapunzelHair: She has purple hair down to her thighs when not up in her PrimAndProperBun. Her long hair serves as a GodivaHair during several of her FanDisservice segments.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:It's never clarified just how old she really is, but it's definitely ''way'' over 14]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy delivers one to her brother, Akio, who has been tormenting her for centuries.]]
-->"[[spoiler:You really don't know what happened, do you? It doesn't matter. By all means, stay in this cozy coffin of yours and continue to play prince. But I have to go now. She isn't gone at all, she's merely vanished from your world.]]"
* ReiAyanamiExpy: She is a seemingly {{emotionless|girl}} MysteriousWaif with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]] and green eyes that serves as a LoveInterest to the main lead Utena. Like Rei, [[spoiler:she has a personal connection to the BigBad as his sister. She is not quite human, as she is actually an ancient goddess that was stabbed by the Swords of Hate to contain her power.]] Given the original air date of ''Utena'', she's probably the UrExample, as well as one of the few that stays true to the original character's UnbuiltTrope nature. There's also the fact that Ikuhara and Anno are real life friends and Anno himself asked Ikuhara to work with him, but Anno joked that [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion he ran away]].
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:She became this unwillingly when the enraged town people stabbed her for blocking their pass to reach her sickly brother. After this, she became the scapegoat for Akio by taking the Swords of Hate again and again actually meant for him. Being this trope is the real purpose of the Rose Bride.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: These pop up whenever [[spoiler:she's being complicit in Akio's manipulations.]] They also pop when [[spoiler:Utena and Akio start becoming an item.]]
* ShapeShifter: [[spoiler:Could be an EmpathicShapeshifter.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: What she appears to be on the surface... appropriate, considering her hair color.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[spoiler:At the very end Anthy abandons her glasses, loses her bun and swaps her red dress and school uniform for a pink travel suit. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* SilentScapegoat: Saionji, Nanami, her GirlPosse, Kozue, and Juri all smack her around despite her having little-to-no involvement in their issues. Most prominent when Anthy manages to somehow [[TakingTheBullet take a thrown glass of water]] for someone else [[UpToEleven at point-blank range]]. [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy tried to pull this by telling the world that she is a WickedWitch who has imprisoned her brother, the heroic Prince Dios. She knew that he will die if he keeps saving people constantly and that everybody will hate her and stab her with their thousands of swords of hate. It doesn't kill her, but it leaves her in a state of constant pain and cast as the villain. Only she and Dios know the truth, and both of them know that, if she reveals it, the people will instead hate and stab Dios, so neither of them are going to reveal it (especially since [[UsedToBeASweetKid the shattered and embittered]] Dios is now [[BigBad Akio]]). However, Utena's treatment and friendship started to make her realize she didn't want this life but she has no other option as long she continues to be the Rose Bride.]]
* StealthInsult: "Take it easy, Saionji... senpai." Note that Anthy had been using the very respectful suffix "-sama" all this time, but after Saionji loses the duel, she only uses "-senpai."
-->'''Utena:''' Himemiya, you're type-AB, right? Let's see, type-[=ABs=] are elusive and seldom reveal their true feelings, huh?\\
'''Anthy:''' And you're type-B, right, Utena-sama? Type-Bs are self-centered and prone to misconceptions...\\
'''Utena:''' Yeah, sorry, okay.
* StepfordSmiler: She is initially presented as a demure, somewhat shy and even submissive girl who almost always wears a placid smile, which some characters actually find unsettling. By the end of the series, it has been revealed that not only has she been living with [[spoiler:an unimaginable amount of both physical and emotional pain, but she's also essentially a puppet of the series' BigBad, her own brother]].
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy became a SilentScapegoat of all the world's anger in order to save her ailing brother. When her brother developed an evil side out of sheer grief over being unable to save her, she decided to stick with him and indulge in his whims, and even to become his sex slave just to make him happy. She additionally allowed the whole world to continue hurting her with their thousands of Swords of Hate, just to save her brother from feeling that pain. Eventually, she realizes that this is not the life she wants to lead, and she simply tells her brother to go deal with his issues alone.]]
* SupernaturalIsPurple: [[spoiler: She is a witch with purple hair.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: In the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
* TalkingInBed: She does this often with Utena after Utena moves in with her and Akio.
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:Near the end for letting Utena get entangled so far and then stabbing her in the back.]]
%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Utena's Tomboy.
* TragicHero: [[spoiler:All she was trying to do was protect her exhausted brother from the demands of people who wouldn't fight for themselves, and she gets stabbed to death for it.]]
* TransformationSequence: She shifts from her school uniform to a tell-tale red "Rose Bride" dress. Red is a wedding outfit color in many Eastern countries.
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:All the time. It mostly manifests as PassiveAggressiveKombat, but Anthy is very good at keeping that bland, trademark smile of hers when she's busy plotting the downfall of everyone who's mistreated her, barring Akio-and only because he's convinced her he's her only semi-good option.]]
* UncannyValleyGirl: To the point that Kanae compares her to an alien and Nanami thinks she's the scariest person she knows.
* VocalDissonance: A minor case, but Creator/YurikoFuchizaki sounds noticeably older than many members of the high school cast. [[spoiler:This series being what it is, this was probably deliberate]].
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:With Chu-chu, after the GrandFinale. To search for Utena and for her real place in the world.]]
* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Subverted. She does have some supernatural powers. This would seem to resign her to the role of a wicked witch in any fairy tale (as ''The Tale of the Rose'' notes, a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch). Nevertheless, she desperately plays the helpless princess role out of love for her brother, a {{Fallen Prince|ss}} who acts like a witch. She eventually leaves her abusive brother with the help of Utena, a princess who acts like a PrinceCharming.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Played with. Her experiences have made her very understandably misanthropic and bitter towards most of the world, especially the Ohtori students who treat her as an item rather than a person. However, her darkest deeds are motivated by something else--her loyalty to her brother. Her HeelFaceTurn isn't motivated by letting go of her anger but letting go of her love (if you can call it that) for Akio.]] Ikuhara has said that [[WordOfGod he never decided if she had malice or not.]]
%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Played straight and subverted, which tells you something about her character.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted. She's calm, soft-spoken, domestic, and devoted to her fiancé as the Rose Bride. She has black hair in the manga, but the [[AdaptationDyeJob the anime]] turns it into [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]]. However, technically speaking, she ''fails'' at being a Yamato Nadeshiko, as she lacks the SilkHidingSteel part that is needed. [[spoiler:{{Double Subver|sion}}ted when she [[GrewASpine grows a spine]] enough to leave her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth in search of Utena.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Combines this trope with TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. It turns out [[spoiler:she's an ancient Goddess-Princess who watched her brother, the God-Prince, being responsible for all the evil on earth. As a child, she decided to take the blame and let herself be punished by the world for all eternity. She subsequently spends the entire series serene and calm, while suffering the anguish and hatred of the entire world... for her FallenHero prince and the fear to change.]]
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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' '''[[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Main Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaUtenaTenjou Utena Tenjou]] | '''Anthy Himemiya''' | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAkioOhtori Akio Ohtori]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheStudentCouncilMembers The Student Council Members]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheBlackRoseDuelists The Black Rose Duelists]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]
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!!'''Anthy Himemiya'''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikoFuchizaki (Japanese), Sharon Becker (English), Creator/RocioPrado (Latin American Spanish)
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The Rose Bride of the dueling games, she becomes engaged to whoever can best her current betrothed in a duel. It is said that this person shall gain from her the power to bring the world revolution. She has little autonomy of her own and is unpopular with most students, but she is coveted by the duelists of the Student Council due to her role in their game.
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* AdaptationalConsent: Exactly how willing she is when it comes to [[spoiler:her incestuous relationship with Akio]] varies by the medium, with the movie being the clearest case of it ''not'' being willing (and even that's muddled slightly by the revelation that [[spoiler:she was awake the whole time he was molesting her after he tried to drug her]]).
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, she originally had very dark brown hair, brown eyes, and wore a white dress. When the anime attained popularity, her colour scheme in the manga was retroactively changed.
* AGodIAmNot: She is the Rose Bride, the [[spoiler:immortal or possibly undying]] holder of the all-powerful Sword of Dios. She just wants to be a normal girl and is generally depressed about being the Rose Bride. [[spoiler:In truth, her pain runs far deeper than that because of her abusive brother who allows her to be constantly stabbed by the Swords of Hate. She eventually leaves her brother with the help of Utena.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nobody at Ohtori is friends with her. In the first arc, we saw her getting cornered (usually by Nanami's gang), berated, and slapped almost OnceAnEpisode. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that part of her role as the Rose Bride is to bear the hatred of the world for taking Dios away from them.]]
%%* AllTakeAndNoGive: The Giver, with her betrothed as the Taker [[spoiler:though only Akio is the true taker]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: She has dark skin and wears a bindi, but her surname is Japanese and her given name is Greek. [[spoiler:Flashbacks to her and Akio's past also seem to depict medieval Europe, further muddling the issue]]. Her ethnicity is never actually specified. The whole getup gives her a very exotic look compared to other students.
** If it's not exoticism, it may count as a GeniusBonus--she's technically implied to be a [[spoiler:deity, and Japanese Buddhism has cultural osmosis from as far as Greece, not to even mention South Asia]].
* BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's actually what the barrier's ''preventing from getting out'' of Ohtori (that, and her own despair).]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's unfailingly polite, pleasant, and faithful to Utena and everyone as a student and the Rose Bride, but as the series goes on, it becomes clear she has a dark side that she typically shows through passive-aggressiveness. [[spoiler:And, in the last arc, through stabbing Utena InTheBack.]]
%%* TheBigDamnKiss: With [[spoiler:Utena in the movie.]]
%%* BloodBrothers: With Utena.
* BrokenBird: At first it just seems like she's friendless and a prize in the Student Council's fights, which is bad enough. [[spoiler:Then we find out she's been tormented and caught in an abusive relationship with her fallen princely brother for ''centuries'' after being stabbed by a mob of townspeople for trying to save him.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Although it at first appears to be consensual, it's made clear a few episodes later that Akio does not accept refusals, or even hesitation.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After Utena is {{ret gone}}d for reaching her, she calmly changes her clothes, [[LettingHerHairDown lets her hair down]], goes to Akio's office with Chu-Chu on her shoulder and her travel bag in her hands, tells him she's leaving Ohtori to [[IWillFindYou find Utena]], and finally is able to take command of her own life. The last time she's seen, she and Chuchu are happily WalkingTheEarth, hoping to meet up with Utena someday.]]
* CatchPhrase: In the next episode preview: "Absolute destiny apocalypse."
* CompressedHair: She manages to compress her thigh-length hair down into a horizontal roll.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Downplayed. She has potential to fight back, but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't let her do this directly.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy ends the dueling game and saves herself from her oppressive role as the Rose Bride. She decides to leave Ohtori and walks out. Utena provided the impetus and the resolve.]]
* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler:Her role as the Rose Bride hinders this. While physically she ''can'' pull this off, her emotional/psychological damage is way too serious.]]
* DesignatedVictim: In the first arc, you could start a drinking game based on how many times she gets slapped.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dios and Anthy crossed this in their backstories, which is what shaped them into Akio Ohtori the ManipulativeBastard and Anthy Himemiya the Rose Bride.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Something that creeps out a lot of the people around her, especially her soon-to-be sister-in-law Kanae.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Of a sort. She's instrumental to Akio's schemes and loyal to him, but it's also made clear she's only performing the "princess" role by rote. When Utena gives her reason to stand up for herself, she cheerfully leaves him behind.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:When she sees the effects of Akio's manipulation on Utena (blaming herself because she MUST follow his will no matter what) she tries to throw herself off the roof of the dorm. Utena stops her, though.]]
** And in the movie, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that she was about to do this before Utena shows up in the Rose Garden before their dance]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Given that her final scene in the movie has her [[spoiler:having sex with (or at least making out with while both were completely naked) Utena]] while speeding down a highway in a heavily damaged race car with no seatbelts, it's clear she took lessons from her brother on the importance of staying in control of the vehicle at all times.
* EmotionlessGirl: She rarely shows any emotions other than a placid smile, and it's noted to be creepy by a few other characters. [[spoiler:Subverted as she's more emotionally repressed than actually emotionless due to her abusive brother.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:When she leaves Akio, Anthy lets her PrimAndProperBun down. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: She is actually described as being "less forceful than a doormat", but the truth is a [[ObfuscatingStupidity bit different]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless personality]] is just a cover for her collusion with her brother, [[DoubleSubversion double subverted]] when she actually is an ExtremeDoormat to him, though she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. In any case, she's far from emotionless to the point where [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation some fans consider her worse than Akio]]. She theoretically ''can'' rebel against her destiny as a fallen princess / WickedWitch, but has to choose between eternal torture and returning to the outside world which brought about her torture into the first place.]]
* FacialMarkings: Wears a bindi.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The swords of hate, always stabbing her in every single uncovered inch of her body...combined with the understanding that taking them for Dios turned him into Akio, rendering all of her pain utterly pointless.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: When Utena asks her what is femininity, she answers that all girls are like the Rose Bride; as the Rose Bride, she has been an ExtremeDoormat and a StepfordSmiler trapped in a cycle of abuse. [[spoiler:Later, when she stabs Utena InTheBack, she tells Utena that she can't be her prince because she's a girl.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Downplayed. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* FirstNameBasis: With the exception of Utena, most of the cast calls her by her first name.
* FlowerMotifs: All the characters are associated with roses of various colours, but being the Rose Bride, the rose motif is especially strong with her.
* FriendToAllLivingThings:
** Not in an over-the-top way, but she clearly has an affinity with animals, more so than with humans.
** It's also hinted that if you mistreat an animal, she'll calmly curse you [[AnimalsHateHim to be hated by all of them]]. You heard that, Nanami?
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In Episode 8, she's perceived as this when she switches bodies with Utena, who as Anthy is bullied and slapped by Keiko. Anthy!Utena thought it was about time Keiko learned her lesson, and struck back. Even better in the [[http://a.mhcdn.net/store/manga/3178/016.5/compressed/scan0010.jpg?v=1225926966 manga]] when Anthy!Utena nearly goes to town on the girls.
* GirlInABox: [[spoiler:Her body's in a coffin]].
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She deconstructs the DamselInDistress role as she does have the potential to fight back (but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't allow her to) and saves Utena and herself in TheMovie. She also has domestic skills like cleaning, likes snails and snakes, is more sexually aggressive towards Utena in TheMovie, wears armor and rides on a horse in the opening scene versus her standard attire of dresses, and isn't that great of a cook. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:When she sleeps with Akio. It's also done more poignantly in the final episode, when she leaves her glasses on Akio's desk before leaving the school for good to search for Utena.]]
* GodivaHair: Though the circumstances are of the FanDisservice variety.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: [[spoiler:She ends up being both and varies between them. In the end, she decides to be a "good witch" and throws off her brother for good.]]
* GrewASpine: She starts out as not standing up against her tormentors, though [[spoiler:she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. However, in the GrandFinale, she leaves her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth with Chuchu in search of her best friend Utena.]]
* TheHecateSisters: She can be seen as all three depending on the situation: the maiden in her role as the Rose Bride, the wife for the duelists, and the witch/crone [[spoiler:as Akio's "partner"]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Thanks to Utena' determination to save her, Anthy finally frees herself from Akio's endless quest for power via the dueling game and leaves him forever.]]
%%* HiddenDepths: Too much to sum up here, but suffice to say that [[spoiler:her smiles and happy demeanor are all put on]].
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. [[spoiler:She is known in ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'' as a WickedWitch who sealed the light of the Rose Prince away in her castle out of spite that a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch. The story fails to mention how she chose to save her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
%%* HopeIsScary: [[spoiler:One of the possible reasons why she ends up stabbing Utena.]]
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:Anthy was subjected to this at the hands of an angry mob for sealing Dios away long ago, and she still has to endure the pain of constantly being skewered by the Swords of Hate as a scapegoat for humanity's rage toward the Prince who lost his faith and then abandoned his people.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler:Akio throws Anthy in front of Utena during her assault during their duel.]]
* ImmortalityHurts: [[spoiler:Anthy is an immortal "WickedWitch" (and implied PhysicalGod), doomed to forever serve as TheScapegoat for humanity's fury over "losing" their Prince, which manifests as a million swords constantly stabbing her body.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Anthy put herself between a mob and her brother, and thus got impaled (on-screen but in [[ShadowDiscretionShot silhouette]]) with "The Million Swords of Humanity's Hatred". Of course, only some of them are actually visible in most of these scenes, but in the GrandFinale, all one million are shown in their full glory, all seeking to impale poor Anthy simultaneously.]]
* InTheBack: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
* IWillFindYou: Anthy sets out to find [[spoiler:Utena]] at the end of the anime version, since [[spoiler:Utena's genuine desire to help her (a opposed to her former white-knighting) finally gives Anthy the courage to break the cycle of abuse she was trapped into. So as soon as she can, she gets ready to leave Ohtori Academy and tell Akio that she's no longer his pawn and that even if Utena was erased from the world, she'll find her no matter what.]]
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* JadeColoredGlasses: She's long since given up any hope of escaping her fate as the Rose Bride, and thus Utena's continued efforts to free her cause her either consternation or shock.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In the second ending sequence with Utena.
* LadyAndKnight: The Lady to Utena's Knight. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, since it's shown that being the "Lady" is a very stifling and limited position to have.]]
* LadyInRed: In the anime version, Anthy wears a red dress during the Rose Duels as she's the bride and the prize of the dueling game. She doesn't behave in a particularly sexual manner, but she is an object of desire for a few males in the cast. [[spoiler:She's sleeping with her brother and serves as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], but [[RapeAsDrama not by choice]].]]
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* LethalChef: Her cooking has... [[FreakyFridayFlip interesting side effects]] [[spoiler:though this may be intentional.]]
* LettingHerHairDown: We see her wearing her hair down more often (usually at night) as she and Utena become closer. [[spoiler:Also when she's in bed with Akio.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Wakaba basically describes Anthy as this in the first episode.
%%* LongHairIsFeminine:
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:To Akio, and how. Eventually ends up being subverted when she realizes Akio isn't worthy of it, and she leave him far behind.]]
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Utena's love redeems her and gives her the courage to leave Akio.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:In ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'', her fictionalized version manipulates her brother into trapping himself in her castle by warning him that a witch in the castle seeks to seal the Rose Prince away from the world. Subverted when it turns out that she only saved her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Anthy" is derived from the Greek word "''ánthos''" for "flower" and is similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea Anthea, an epithet for the Greek Goddess Hera]]. Note that Dios is another name for Zeus, Hera's brother-husband. ''Himemiya''" means "princess shrine".
* {{Meganekko}}: Anthy's gentle and intelligent nature seems to fit the role, though her apparent ditziness is explained in a dark and extreme subversion later on. Lampshaded when the GrandFinale reveals that [[spoiler:Anthy doesn't even NEED to wear glasses, and was seemingly wearing them at Akio's order, most likely to make her look more submissive and timid. When she finally breaks ties with him, she illustrates this by taking off her glasses and leaving them on his desk, and heading out into the world without them.]] This is hinted at in one of the next episode previews much earlier in the series [[spoiler:where Anthy casually remarks that she can see better WITHOUT her glasses.]]
* MessianicArchetype: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:She was killed by an angry mob when she tried to protect her brother, came back to life and has to bear the sins of humanity from then on. However, the anime shows that someone who is defined solely by sacrifice, suffering and martyrdom will eventually be warped into a bitter shadow of themselves. Furthermore, taking on someone else's sins and burdens does nothing good to them, as it generates guilt and eventually resentment and teaches that they can avoid consequences.]]
* MultiethnicName: Her given name is derived from a Greek word and her family name is Japanese.
%%* MysteriousWaif:
* NeutralFemale: She can be seen as this for roughly 90% to 95% of the series. In fact, the series could be seen to deconstruct the trope that women ought to ultimately obey their 'prince' and have no life of their own. [[spoiler:As punishment for being a witch who sealed [[KnightInShiningArmor Dios]] away]], Anthy was cursed to be in the role of the Rose Bride, passed around from person to person based on the outcome of the dueling game. As Anthy saw herself as an empty shell with no heart, she went along submissively. She starts to try doing what she wanted only when she becomes friends with Utena who encouraged her to obey her own will.
* OneNoteCook: She sticks to shaved ice. Any other meal she cooks up tend to have [[FreakyFridayFlip very interesting side-effects]], which may or may not be intentional.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The rare times she shows any emotion aside for her DissonantSerenity it's because something big, seriously wrong, or both, are happening.
%%* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Anthy is a master at this, though it's also {{deconstructed|trope}} in that it's the only way she ''can'' fight back, having been [[spoiler:emotionally anesthetized by years of emotional and sexual manipulation by her ManipulativeBastard brother Akio. The ''one'' time Anthy talks straight to the point is when, after Utena's HeroicSacrifice for her, she manages to break the cycle of abuse [[ButNowIMustGo and walks out on Akio]], leaving Ohtori with Chuchu [[IWillFindYou to find Utena]].]]
%%* PeekABangs: Vulnerability and Drama variant. [[spoiler:Anthy, whose hair is always in a PrimAndProperBun, is shown late in the series LettingHerHairDown in situations where she's especially broken or vulnerable due her status as [[FateWorseThanDeath the Rose Bride]]. During the final battle between Utena and Akio, Anthy's hair briefly takes this look to show just how utterly ''[[DespairEventHorizon broken]]'' she is.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: She almost always wears a placid, vapid smile. This, in addition to her DissonantSerenity, is noted by other characters to be creepy and unsettling.
* PersonOfHolding: Saionji and then Utena draw the dueling sword from her body.
* PrimAndProperBun: In the television version, she usually wears her hair in a horizontal roll above the neck.
* PrincessClassic: While she isn't a royal, Anthy otherwise fits this trope. She is a demure DamselInDistress, a FriendToAllLivingThings, an object of desire for a few males in the cast, has long hair, and wears a fancy red dress as the Rose Bride. She is also a tragic look at this trope, as she has no control over her future and it's passed to the current winner of the dueling game. Not to mention, when she confesses a desire of learn to cook like Wakaba, Touga laughs at the idea of the Rose Bride cooking and that her only priority is taking care of the rose like a princess who is only there to be pretty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Her hair is black in the manga, but the anime series and movies render it purple.
* RapunzelHair: She has purple hair down to her thighs when not up in her PrimAndProperBun. Her long hair serves as a GodivaHair during several of her FanDisservice segments.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:It's never clarified just how old she really is, but it's definitely ''way'' over 14]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy delivers one to her brother, Akio, who has been tormenting her for centuries.]]
-->"[[spoiler:You really don't know what happened, do you? It doesn't matter. By all means, stay in this cozy coffin of yours and continue to play prince. But I have to go now. She isn't gone at all, she's merely vanished from your world.]]"
* ReiAyanamiExpy: She is a seemingly {{emotionless|girl}} MysteriousWaif with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]] and green eyes that serves as a LoveInterest to the main lead Utena. Like Rei, [[spoiler:she has a personal connection to the BigBad as his sister. She is not quite human, as she is actually an ancient goddess that was stabbed by the Swords of Hate to contain her power.]] Given the original air date of ''Utena'', she's probably the UrExample, as well as one of the few that stays true to the original character's UnbuiltTrope nature. There's also the fact that Ikuhara and Anno are real life friends and Anno himself asked Ikuhara to work with him, but Anno joked that [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion he ran away]].
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:She became this unwillingly when the enraged town people stabbed her for blocking their pass to reach her sickly brother. After this, she became the scapegoat for Akio by taking the Swords of Hate again and again actually meant for him. Being this trope is the real purpose of the Rose Bride.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: These pop up whenever [[spoiler:she's being complicit in Akio's manipulations.]] They also pop when [[spoiler:Utena and Akio start becoming an item.]]
* ShapeShifter: [[spoiler:Could be an EmpathicShapeshifter.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: What she appears to be on the surface... appropriate, considering her hair color.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[spoiler:At the very end Anthy abandons her glasses, loses her bun and swaps her red dress and school uniform for a pink travel suit. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* SilentScapegoat: Saionji, Nanami, her GirlPosse, Kozue, and Juri all smack her around despite her having little-to-no involvement in their issues. Most prominent when Anthy manages to somehow [[TakingTheBullet take a thrown glass of water]] for someone else [[UpToEleven at point-blank range]]. [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy tried to pull this by telling the world that she is a WickedWitch who has imprisoned her brother, the heroic Prince Dios. She knew that he will die if he keeps saving people constantly and that everybody will hate her and stab her with their thousands of swords of hate. It doesn't kill her, but it leaves her in a state of constant pain and cast as the villain. Only she and Dios know the truth, and both of them know that, if she reveals it, the people will instead hate and stab Dios, so neither of them are going to reveal it (especially since [[UsedToBeASweetKid the shattered and embittered]] Dios is now [[BigBad Akio]]). However, Utena's treatment and friendship started to make her realize she didn't want this life but she has no other option as long she continues to be the Rose Bride.]]
* StealthInsult: "Take it easy, Saionji... senpai." Note that Anthy had been using the very respectful suffix "-sama" all this time, but after Saionji loses the duel, she only uses "-senpai."
-->'''Utena:''' Himemiya, you're type-AB, right? Let's see, type-[=ABs=] are elusive and seldom reveal their true feelings, huh?\\
'''Anthy:''' And you're type-B, right, Utena-sama? Type-Bs are self-centered and prone to misconceptions...\\
'''Utena:''' Yeah, sorry, okay.
* StepfordSmiler: She is initially presented as a demure, somewhat shy and even submissive girl who almost always wears a placid smile, which some characters actually find unsettling. By the end of the series, it has been revealed that not only has she been living with [[spoiler:an unimaginable amount of both physical and emotional pain, but she's also essentially a puppet of the series' BigBad, her own brother]].
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy became a SilentScapegoat of all the world's anger in order to save her ailing brother. When her brother developed an evil side out of sheer grief over being unable to save her, she decided to stick with him and indulge in his whims, and even to become his sex slave just to make him happy. She additionally allowed the whole world to continue hurting her with their thousands of Swords of Hate, just to save her brother from feeling that pain. Eventually, she realizes that this is not the life she wants to lead, and she simply tells her brother to go deal with his issues alone.]]
* SupernaturalIsPurple: [[spoiler: She is a witch with purple hair.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: In the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
* TalkingInBed: She does this often with Utena after Utena moves in with her and Akio.
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:Near the end for letting Utena get entangled so far and then stabbing her in the back.]]
%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Utena's Tomboy.
* TragicHero: [[spoiler:All she was trying to do was protect her exhausted brother from the demands of people who wouldn't fight for themselves, and she gets stabbed to death for it.]]
* TransformationSequence: She shifts from her school uniform to a tell-tale red "Rose Bride" dress. Red is a wedding outfit color in many Eastern countries.
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:All the time. It mostly manifests as PassiveAggressiveKombat, but Anthy is very good at keeping that bland, trademark smile of hers when she's busy plotting the downfall of everyone who's mistreated her, barring Akio-and only because he's convinced her he's her only semi-good option.]]
* UncannyValleyGirl: To the point that Kanae compares her to an alien and Nanami thinks she's the scariest person she knows.
* VocalDissonance: A minor case, but Creator/YurikoFuchizaki sounds noticeably older than many members of the high school cast. [[spoiler:This series being what it is, this was probably deliberate]].
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:With Chu-chu, after the GrandFinale. To search for Utena and for her real place in the world.]]
* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Subverted. She does have some supernatural powers. This would seem to resign her to the role of a wicked witch in any fairy tale (as ''The Tale of the Rose'' notes, a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch). Nevertheless, she desperately plays the helpless princess role out of love for her brother, a {{Fallen Prince|ss}} who acts like a witch. She eventually leaves her abusive brother with the help of Utena, a princess who acts like a PrinceCharming.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Played with. Her experiences have made her very understandably misanthropic and bitter towards most of the world, especially the Ohtori students who treat her as an item rather than a person. However, her darkest deeds are motivated by something else--her loyalty to her brother. Her HeelFaceTurn isn't motivated by letting go of her anger but letting go of her love (if you can call it that) for Akio.]] Ikuhara has said that [[WordOfGod he never decided if she had malice or not.]]
%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Played straight and subverted, which tells you something about her character.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted. She's calm, soft-spoken, domestic, and devoted to her fiancé as the Rose Bride. She has black hair in the manga, but the [[AdaptationDyeJob the anime]] turns it into [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]]. However, technically speaking, she ''fails'' at being a Yamato Nadeshiko, as she lacks the SilkHidingSteel part that is needed. [[spoiler:{{Double Subver|sion}}ted when she [[GrewASpine grows a spine]] enough to leave her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth in search of Utena.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Combines this trope with TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. It turns out [[spoiler:she's an ancient Goddess-Princess who watched her brother, the God-Prince, being responsible for all the evil on earth. As a child, she decided to take the blame and let herself be punished by the world for all eternity. She subsequently spends the entire series serene and calm, while suffering the anguish and hatred of the entire world... for her FallenHero prince and the fear to change.]]
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!!'''Anthy Himemiya'''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikoFuchizaki (Japanese), Sharon Becker (English), Creator/RocioPrado (Latin American Spanish)
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The Rose Bride of the dueling games, she becomes engaged to whoever can best her current betrothed in a duel. It is said that this person shall gain from her the power to bring the world revolution. She has little autonomy of her own and is unpopular with most students, but she is coveted by the duelists of the Student Council due to her role in their game.
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* AdaptationalConsent: Exactly how willing she is when it comes to [[spoiler:her incestuous relationship with Akio]] varies by the medium, with the movie being the clearest case of it ''not'' being willing (and even that's muddled slightly by the revelation that [[spoiler:she was awake the whole time he was molesting her after he tried to drug her]]).
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, she originally had very dark brown hair, brown eyes, and wore a white dress. When the anime attained popularity, her colour scheme in the manga was retroactively changed.
* AGodIAmNot: She is the Rose Bride, the [[spoiler:immortal or possibly undying]] holder of the all-powerful Sword of Dios. She just wants to be a normal girl and is generally depressed about being the Rose Bride. [[spoiler:In truth, her pain runs far deeper than that because of her abusive brother who allows her to be constantly stabbed by the Swords of Hate. She eventually leaves her brother with the help of Utena.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nobody at Ohtori is friends with her. In the first arc, we saw her getting cornered (usually by Nanami's gang), berated, and slapped almost OnceAnEpisode. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that part of her role as the Rose Bride is to bear the hatred of the world for taking Dios away from them.]]
%%* AllTakeAndNoGive: The Giver, with her betrothed as the Taker [[spoiler:though only Akio is the true taker]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: She has dark skin and wears a bindi, but her surname is Japanese and her given name is Greek. [[spoiler:Flashbacks to her and Akio's past also seem to depict medieval Europe, further muddling the issue]]. Her ethnicity is never actually specified. The whole getup gives her a very exotic look compared to other students.
** If it's not exoticism, it may count as a GeniusBonus--she's technically implied to be a [[spoiler:deity, and Japanese Buddhism has cultural osmosis from as far as Greece, not to even mention South Asia]].
* BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's actually what the barrier's ''preventing from getting out'' of Ohtori (that, and her own despair).]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's unfailingly polite, pleasant, and faithful to Utena and everyone as a student and the Rose Bride, but as the series goes on, it becomes clear she has a dark side that she typically shows through passive-aggressiveness. [[spoiler:And, in the last arc, through stabbing Utena InTheBack.]]
%%* TheBigDamnKiss: With [[spoiler:Utena in the movie.]]
%%* BloodBrothers: With Utena.
* BrokenBird: At first it just seems like she's friendless and a prize in the Student Council's fights, which is bad enough. [[spoiler:Then we find out she's been tormented and caught in an abusive relationship with her fallen princely brother for ''centuries'' after being stabbed by a mob of townspeople for trying to save him.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Although it at first appears to be consensual, it's made clear a few episodes later that Akio does not accept refusals, or even hesitation.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After Utena is {{ret gone}}d for reaching her, she calmly changes her clothes, [[LettingHerHairDown lets her hair down]], goes to Akio's office with Chu-Chu on her shoulder and her travel bag in her hands, tells him she's leaving Ohtori to [[IWillFindYou find Utena]], and finally is able to take command of her own life. The last time she's seen, she and Chuchu are happily WalkingTheEarth, hoping to meet up with Utena someday.]]
* CatchPhrase: In the next episode preview: "Absolute destiny apocalypse."
* CompressedHair: She manages to compress her thigh-length hair down into a horizontal roll.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Downplayed. She has potential to fight back, but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't let her do this directly.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy ends the dueling game and saves herself from her oppressive role as the Rose Bride. She decides to leave Ohtori and walks out. Utena provided the impetus and the resolve.]]
* DefiantCaptive: [[spoiler:Her role as the Rose Bride hinders this. While physically she ''can'' pull this off, her emotional/psychological damage is way too serious.]]
* DesignatedVictim: In the first arc, you could start a drinking game based on how many times she gets slapped.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dios and Anthy crossed this in their backstories, which is what shaped them into Akio Ohtori the ManipulativeBastard and Anthy Himemiya the Rose Bride.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Something that creeps out a lot of the people around her, especially her soon-to-be sister-in-law Kanae.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Of a sort. She's instrumental to Akio's schemes and loyal to him, but it's also made clear she's only performing the "princess" role by rote. When Utena gives her reason to stand up for herself, she cheerfully leaves him behind.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:When she sees the effects of Akio's manipulation on Utena (blaming herself because she MUST follow his will no matter what) she tries to throw herself off the roof of the dorm. Utena stops her, though.]]
** And in the movie, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that she was about to do this before Utena shows up in the Rose Garden before their dance]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Given that her final scene in the movie has her [[spoiler:having sex with (or at least making out with while both were completely naked) Utena]] while speeding down a highway in a heavily damaged race car with no seatbelts, it's clear she took lessons from her brother on the importance of staying in control of the vehicle at all times.
* EmotionlessGirl: She rarely shows any emotions other than a placid smile, and it's noted to be creepy by a few other characters. [[spoiler:Subverted as she's more emotionally repressed than actually emotionless due to her abusive brother.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:When she leaves Akio, Anthy lets her PrimAndProperBun down. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: She is actually described as being "less forceful than a doormat", but the truth is a [[ObfuscatingStupidity bit different]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless personality]] is just a cover for her collusion with her brother, [[DoubleSubversion double subverted]] when she actually is an ExtremeDoormat to him, though she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. In any case, she's far from emotionless to the point where [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation some fans consider her worse than Akio]]. She theoretically ''can'' rebel against her destiny as a fallen princess / WickedWitch, but has to choose between eternal torture and returning to the outside world which brought about her torture into the first place.]]
* FacialMarkings: Wears a bindi.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The swords of hate, always stabbing her in every single uncovered inch of her body...combined with the understanding that taking them for Dios turned him into Akio, rendering all of her pain utterly pointless.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: When Utena asks her what is femininity, she answers that all girls are like the Rose Bride; as the Rose Bride, she has been an ExtremeDoormat and a StepfordSmiler trapped in a cycle of abuse. [[spoiler:Later, when she stabs Utena InTheBack, she tells Utena that she can't be her prince because she's a girl.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Downplayed. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* FirstNameBasis: With the exception of Utena, most of the cast calls her by her first name.
* FlowerMotifs: All the characters are associated with roses of various colours, but being the Rose Bride, the rose motif is especially strong with her.
* FriendToAllLivingThings:
** Not in an over-the-top way, but she clearly has an affinity with animals, more so than with humans.
** It's also hinted that if you mistreat an animal, she'll calmly curse you [[AnimalsHateHim to be hated by all of them]]. You heard that, Nanami?
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In Episode 8, she's perceived as this when she switches bodies with Utena, who as Anthy is bullied and slapped by Keiko. Anthy!Utena thought it was about time Keiko learned her lesson, and struck back. Even better in the [[http://a.mhcdn.net/store/manga/3178/016.5/compressed/scan0010.jpg?v=1225926966 manga]] when Anthy!Utena nearly goes to town on the girls.
* GirlInABox: [[spoiler:Her body's in a coffin]].
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She deconstructs the DamselInDistress role as she does have the potential to fight back (but her role as the Rose Bride doesn't allow her to) and saves Utena and herself in TheMovie. She also has domestic skills like cleaning, likes snails and snakes, is more sexually aggressive towards Utena in TheMovie, wears armor and rides on a horse in the opening scene versus her standard attire of dresses, and isn't that great of a cook. The only foods she can make safely are children's snacks like shaved ice.
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:When she sleeps with Akio. It's also done more poignantly in the final episode, when she leaves her glasses on Akio's desk before leaving the school for good to search for Utena.]]
* GodivaHair: Though the circumstances are of the FanDisservice variety.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: [[spoiler:She ends up being both and varies between them. In the end, she decides to be a "good witch" and throws off her brother for good.]]
* GrewASpine: She starts out as not standing up against her tormentors, though [[spoiler:she passive-aggressively rebels every step of the way. However, in the GrandFinale, she leaves her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth with Chuchu in search of her best friend Utena.]]
* TheHecateSisters: She can be seen as all three depending on the situation: the maiden in her role as the Rose Bride, the wife for the duelists, and the witch/crone [[spoiler:as Akio's "partner"]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Thanks to Utena' determination to save her, Anthy finally frees herself from Akio's endless quest for power via the dueling game and leaves him forever.]]
%%* HiddenDepths: Too much to sum up here, but suffice to say that [[spoiler:her smiles and happy demeanor are all put on]].
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. [[spoiler:She is known in ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'' as a WickedWitch who sealed the light of the Rose Prince away in her castle out of spite that a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch. The story fails to mention how she chose to save her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
%%* HopeIsScary: [[spoiler:One of the possible reasons why she ends up stabbing Utena.]]
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:Anthy was subjected to this at the hands of an angry mob for sealing Dios away long ago, and she still has to endure the pain of constantly being skewered by the Swords of Hate as a scapegoat for humanity's rage toward the Prince who lost his faith and then abandoned his people.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler:Akio throws Anthy in front of Utena during her assault during their duel.]]
* ImmortalityHurts: [[spoiler:Anthy is an immortal "WickedWitch" (and implied PhysicalGod), doomed to forever serve as TheScapegoat for humanity's fury over "losing" their Prince, which manifests as a million swords constantly stabbing her body.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Anthy put herself between a mob and her brother, and thus got impaled (on-screen but in [[ShadowDiscretionShot silhouette]]) with "The Million Swords of Humanity's Hatred". Of course, only some of them are actually visible in most of these scenes, but in the GrandFinale, all one million are shown in their full glory, all seeking to impale poor Anthy simultaneously.]]
* InTheBack: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
* IWillFindYou: Anthy sets out to find [[spoiler:Utena]] at the end of the anime version, since [[spoiler:Utena's genuine desire to help her (a opposed to her former white-knighting) finally gives Anthy the courage to break the cycle of abuse she was trapped into. So as soon as she can, she gets ready to leave Ohtori Academy and tell Akio that she's no longer his pawn and that even if Utena was erased from the world, she'll find her no matter what.]]
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* JadeColoredGlasses: She's long since given up any hope of escaping her fate as the Rose Bride, and thus Utena's continued efforts to free her cause her either consternation or shock.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In the second ending sequence with Utena.
* LadyAndKnight: The Lady to Utena's Knight. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, since it's shown that being the "Lady" is a very stifling and limited position to have.]]
* LadyInRed: In the anime version, Anthy wears a red dress during the Rose Duels as she's the bride and the prize of the dueling game. She doesn't behave in a particularly sexual manner, but she is an object of desire for a few males in the cast. [[spoiler:She's sleeping with her brother and serves as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], but [[RapeAsDrama not by choice]].]]
%%* LanguageOfMagic
* LethalChef: Her cooking has... [[FreakyFridayFlip interesting side effects]] [[spoiler:though this may be intentional.]]
* LettingHerHairDown: We see her wearing her hair down more often (usually at night) as she and Utena become closer. [[spoiler:Also when she's in bed with Akio.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Wakaba basically describes Anthy as this in the first episode.
%%* LongHairIsFeminine:
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:To Akio, and how. Eventually ends up being subverted when she realizes Akio isn't worthy of it, and she leave him far behind.]]
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Utena's love redeems her and gives her the courage to leave Akio.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:In ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'', her fictionalized version manipulates her brother into trapping himself in her castle by warning him that a witch in the castle seeks to seal the Rose Prince away from the world. Subverted when it turns out that she only saved her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Anthy" is derived from the Greek word "''ánthos''" for "flower" and is similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea Anthea, an epithet for the Greek Goddess Hera]]. Note that Dios is another name for Zeus, Hera's brother-husband. ''Himemiya''" means "princess shrine".
* {{Meganekko}}: Anthy's gentle and intelligent nature seems to fit the role, though her apparent ditziness is explained in a dark and extreme subversion later on. Lampshaded when the GrandFinale reveals that [[spoiler:Anthy doesn't even NEED to wear glasses, and was seemingly wearing them at Akio's order, most likely to make her look more submissive and timid. When she finally breaks ties with him, she illustrates this by taking off her glasses and leaving them on his desk, and heading out into the world without them.]] This is hinted at in one of the next episode previews much earlier in the series [[spoiler:where Anthy casually remarks that she can see better WITHOUT her glasses.]]
* MessianicArchetype: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:She was killed by an angry mob when she tried to protect her brother, came back to life and has to bear the sins of humanity from then on. However, the anime shows that someone who is defined solely by sacrifice, suffering and martyrdom will eventually be warped into a bitter shadow of themselves. Furthermore, taking on someone else's sins and burdens does nothing good to them, as it generates guilt and eventually resentment and teaches that they can avoid consequences.]]
* MultiethnicName: Her given name is derived from a Greek word and her family name is Japanese.
%%* MysteriousWaif:
* NeutralFemale: She can be seen as this for roughly 90% to 95% of the series. In fact, the series could be seen to deconstruct the trope that women ought to ultimately obey their 'prince' and have no life of their own. [[spoiler:As punishment for being a witch who sealed [[KnightInShiningArmor Dios]] away]], Anthy was cursed to be in the role of the Rose Bride, passed around from person to person based on the outcome of the dueling game. As Anthy saw herself as an empty shell with no heart, she went along submissively. She starts to try doing what she wanted only when she becomes friends with Utena who encouraged her to obey her own will.
* OneNoteCook: She sticks to shaved ice. Any other meal she cooks up tend to have [[FreakyFridayFlip very interesting side-effects]], which may or may not be intentional.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The rare times she shows any emotion aside for her DissonantSerenity it's because something big, seriously wrong, or both, are happening.
%%* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Anthy is a master at this, though it's also {{deconstructed|trope}} in that it's the only way she ''can'' fight back, having been [[spoiler:emotionally anesthetized by years of emotional and sexual manipulation by her ManipulativeBastard brother Akio. The ''one'' time Anthy talks straight to the point is when, after Utena's HeroicSacrifice for her, she manages to break the cycle of abuse [[ButNowIMustGo and walks out on Akio]], leaving Ohtori with Chuchu [[IWillFindYou to find Utena]].]]
%%* PeekABangs: Vulnerability and Drama variant. [[spoiler:Anthy, whose hair is always in a PrimAndProperBun, is shown late in the series LettingHerHairDown in situations where she's especially broken or vulnerable due her status as [[FateWorseThanDeath the Rose Bride]]. During the final battle between Utena and Akio, Anthy's hair briefly takes this look to show just how utterly ''[[DespairEventHorizon broken]]'' she is.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: She almost always wears a placid, vapid smile. This, in addition to her DissonantSerenity, is noted by other characters to be creepy and unsettling.
* PersonOfHolding: Saionji and then Utena draw the dueling sword from her body.
* PrimAndProperBun: In the television version, she usually wears her hair in a horizontal roll above the neck.
* PrincessClassic: While she isn't a royal, Anthy otherwise fits this trope. She is a demure DamselInDistress, a FriendToAllLivingThings, an object of desire for a few males in the cast, has long hair, and wears a fancy red dress as the Rose Bride. She is also a tragic look at this trope, as she has no control over her future and it's passed to the current winner of the dueling game. Not to mention, when she confesses a desire of learn to cook like Wakaba, Touga laughs at the idea of the Rose Bride cooking and that her only priority is taking care of the rose like a princess who is only there to be pretty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Her hair is black in the manga, but the anime series and movies render it purple.
* RapunzelHair: She has purple hair down to her thighs when not up in her PrimAndProperBun. Her long hair serves as a GodivaHair during several of her FanDisservice segments.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:It's never clarified just how old she really is, but it's definitely ''way'' over 14]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Anthy delivers one to her brother, Akio, who has been tormenting her for centuries.]]
-->"[[spoiler:You really don't know what happened, do you? It doesn't matter. By all means, stay in this cozy coffin of yours and continue to play prince. But I have to go now. She isn't gone at all, she's merely vanished from your world.]]"
* ReiAyanamiExpy: She is a seemingly {{emotionless|girl}} MysteriousWaif with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]] and green eyes that serves as a LoveInterest to the main lead Utena. Like Rei, [[spoiler:she has a personal connection to the BigBad as his sister. She is not quite human, as she is actually an ancient goddess that was stabbed by the Swords of Hate to contain her power.]] Given the original air date of ''Utena'', she's probably the UrExample, as well as one of the few that stays true to the original character's UnbuiltTrope nature. There's also the fact that Ikuhara and Anno are real life friends and Anno himself asked Ikuhara to work with him, but Anno joked that [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion he ran away]].
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:She became this unwillingly when the enraged town people stabbed her for blocking their pass to reach her sickly brother. After this, she became the scapegoat for Akio by taking the Swords of Hate again and again actually meant for him. Being this trope is the real purpose of the Rose Bride.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: These pop up whenever [[spoiler:she's being complicit in Akio's manipulations.]] They also pop when [[spoiler:Utena and Akio start becoming an item.]]
* ShapeShifter: [[spoiler:Could be an EmpathicShapeshifter.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: What she appears to be on the surface... appropriate, considering her hair color.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[spoiler:At the very end Anthy abandons her glasses, loses her bun and swaps her red dress and school uniform for a pink travel suit. It shows hows she's rejected the role imposed upon her and is finally choosing her own path and becoming her own person.]]
* SilentScapegoat: Saionji, Nanami, her GirlPosse, Kozue, and Juri all smack her around despite her having little-to-no involvement in their issues. Most prominent when Anthy manages to somehow [[TakingTheBullet take a thrown glass of water]] for someone else [[UpToEleven at point-blank range]]. [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy tried to pull this by telling the world that she is a WickedWitch who has imprisoned her brother, the heroic Prince Dios. She knew that he will die if he keeps saving people constantly and that everybody will hate her and stab her with their thousands of swords of hate. It doesn't kill her, but it leaves her in a state of constant pain and cast as the villain. Only she and Dios know the truth, and both of them know that, if she reveals it, the people will instead hate and stab Dios, so neither of them are going to reveal it (especially since [[UsedToBeASweetKid the shattered and embittered]] Dios is now [[BigBad Akio]]). However, Utena's treatment and friendship started to make her realize she didn't want this life but she has no other option as long she continues to be the Rose Bride.]]
* StealthInsult: "Take it easy, Saionji... senpai." Note that Anthy had been using the very respectful suffix "-sama" all this time, but after Saionji loses the duel, she only uses "-senpai."
-->'''Utena:''' Himemiya, you're type-AB, right? Let's see, type-[=ABs=] are elusive and seldom reveal their true feelings, huh?\\
'''Anthy:''' And you're type-B, right, Utena-sama? Type-Bs are self-centered and prone to misconceptions...\\
'''Utena:''' Yeah, sorry, okay.
* StepfordSmiler: She is initially presented as a demure, somewhat shy and even submissive girl who almost always wears a placid smile, which some characters actually find unsettling. By the end of the series, it has been revealed that not only has she been living with [[spoiler:an unimaginable amount of both physical and emotional pain, but she's also essentially a puppet of the series' BigBad, her own brother]].
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:When she was a child, Anthy became a SilentScapegoat of all the world's anger in order to save her ailing brother. When her brother developed an evil side out of sheer grief over being unable to save her, she decided to stick with him and indulge in his whims, and even to become his sex slave just to make him happy. She additionally allowed the whole world to continue hurting her with their thousands of Swords of Hate, just to save her brother from feeling that pain. Eventually, she realizes that this is not the life she wants to lead, and she simply tells her brother to go deal with his issues alone.]]
* SupernaturalIsPurple: [[spoiler: She is a witch with purple hair.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: In the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
* TalkingInBed: She does this often with Utena after Utena moves in with her and Akio.
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:Near the end for letting Utena get entangled so far and then stabbing her in the back.]]
%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Utena's Tomboy.
* TragicHero: [[spoiler:All she was trying to do was protect her exhausted brother from the demands of people who wouldn't fight for themselves, and she gets stabbed to death for it.]]
* TransformationSequence: She shifts from her school uniform to a tell-tale red "Rose Bride" dress. Red is a wedding outfit color in many Eastern countries.
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:All the time. It mostly manifests as PassiveAggressiveKombat, but Anthy is very good at keeping that bland, trademark smile of hers when she's busy plotting the downfall of everyone who's mistreated her, barring Akio-and only because he's convinced her he's her only semi-good option.]]
* UncannyValleyGirl: To the point that Kanae compares her to an alien and Nanami thinks she's the scariest person she knows.
* VocalDissonance: A minor case, but Creator/YurikoFuchizaki sounds noticeably older than many members of the high school cast. [[spoiler:This series being what it is, this was probably deliberate]].
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:With Chu-chu, after the GrandFinale. To search for Utena and for her real place in the world.]]
* WickedWitch: [[spoiler:Subverted. She does have some supernatural powers. This would seem to resign her to the role of a wicked witch in any fairy tale (as ''The Tale of the Rose'' notes, a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch). Nevertheless, she desperately plays the helpless princess role out of love for her brother, a {{Fallen Prince|ss}} who acts like a witch. She eventually leaves her abusive brother with the help of Utena, a princess who acts like a PrinceCharming.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Played with. Her experiences have made her very understandably misanthropic and bitter towards most of the world, especially the Ohtori students who treat her as an item rather than a person. However, her darkest deeds are motivated by something else--her loyalty to her brother. Her HeelFaceTurn isn't motivated by letting go of her anger but letting go of her love (if you can call it that) for Akio.]] Ikuhara has said that [[WordOfGod he never decided if she had malice or not.]]
%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Played straight and subverted, which tells you something about her character.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted. She's calm, soft-spoken, domestic, and devoted to her fiancé as the Rose Bride. She has black hair in the manga, but the [[AdaptationDyeJob the anime]] turns it into [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]]. However, technically speaking, she ''fails'' at being a Yamato Nadeshiko, as she lacks the SilkHidingSteel part that is needed. [[spoiler:{{Double Subver|sion}}ted when she [[GrewASpine grows a spine]] enough to leave her abusive brother, Akio, to go WalkingTheEarth in search of Utena.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Combines this trope with TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. It turns out [[spoiler:she's an ancient Goddess-Princess who watched her brother, the God-Prince, being responsible for all the evil on earth. As a child, she decided to take the blame and let herself be punished by the world for all eternity. She subsequently spends the entire series serene and calm, while suffering the anguish and hatred of the entire world... for her FallenHero prince and the fear to change.]]
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. [[spoiler:She is known in ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Tale of the Rose]]'' as a WickedWitch who sealed the light of the Rose Prince away in her castle out of spite that a prince's sister can never become his princess, so she must become a witch. In truth, the The story fails to mention how she chose to save her ailing brother from the UngratefulTownsfolk by taking the Swords of Hate actually meant for him.]]
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** If it's not exoticism, it may count as a GeniusBonus--she's technically implied to be a [[spoiler:deity, and [[UsefulNotes/Buddhism [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Japanese Buddhism]] has cultural osmosis from as far as Greece, not to even mention South Asia]].
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** If it's not exoticism, it may count as a GeniusBonus--she's technically implied to be a [[spoiler:deity, and [[UsefulNotes/Buddhism Japanese Buddhism]] has cultural osmosis from as far as Greece, not to even mention South Asia]].
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* TransformationSequence: She shifts from her school uniform to a tell-tale red "Rose Bride" dress. Red is a wedding color in many Eastern countries.
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* BackStab: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
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* BackStab: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
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* InTheBack: Quote Oscar Wilde: "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!" Anthy does it with both [[spoiler:to Utena at the end of the final duel]].
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* CatchPhrase: In the next episode preview: "Absolute fate apocalypse."
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* CatchPhrase: In the next episode preview: "Absolute fate destiny apocalypse."
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* {{Avatar}}: The Rose Bride is this [[spoiler: For Anthy in the coffin and vanishes when it's opened.]]
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* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:She has the power of the Sword of Dios and is immortal and/or undying. She'd really rather be an ordinary girl, though.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: She is initially presented as a demure, somewhat shy and even submissive girl, but by the end of the series, it has been revealed that not only has she been living with [[spoiler:an unimaginable amount of both physical and emotional pain, but she is even be considered a puppet of the series' BigBad, her own brother.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: She is initially presented as a demure, somewhat shy and even submissive girl, but by girl who almost always wears a placid smile, which some characters actually find unsettling. By the end of the series, it has been revealed that not only has she been living with [[spoiler:an unimaginable amount of both physical and emotional pain, but she is even be considered she's also essentially a puppet of the series' BigBad, her own brother.]]brother]].
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Played with. Her experiences have made her very understandably misanthropic and bitter towards most of the world, especially the Ohtori students who treat her as an item rather than a person. However, her darkest deeds are motivated by something else- loyalty to her brother; her HeelFaceTurn isn't motivated by letting go of her anger but letting go of her love (if you can call it that) for Akio.]] Ikuhara has said that [[WordOfGod he never decided if she had malice or not.]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Played with. Her experiences have made her very understandably misanthropic and bitter towards most of the world, especially the Ohtori students who treat her as an item rather than a person. However, her darkest deeds are motivated by something else- else--her loyalty to her brother; her brother. Her HeelFaceTurn isn't motivated by letting go of her anger but letting go of her love (if you can call it that) for Akio.]] Ikuhara has said that [[WordOfGod he never decided if she had malice or not.]]
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* {{Avatar}}: The Rose Bride is this [[spoiler: For Anthy in the coffin and vanishes when it's opened.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: For the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
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* SupportingProtagonist: In the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: These pop up whenever [[spoiler:she's being complicit in Akio's manipulations.]] They also pops when [[spoiler:Utena and Akio starts becoming an item.]]
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: These pop up whenever [[spoiler:she's being complicit in Akio's manipulations.]] They also pops pop when [[spoiler:Utena and Akio starts start becoming an item.]]
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, she originally had very dark brown hair, brown eyes, and [[WomanInWhite wore a white dress]]. When the anime attained popularity, her colour scheme in the manga was retroactively changed.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, she originally had very dark brown hair, brown eyes, and [[WomanInWhite wore a white dress]].dress. When the anime attained popularity, her colour scheme in the manga was retroactively changed.
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* WomanInWhite: Her original Rose Bride attire in the manga - changed once the anime eclipsed the source material.
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* DecoyProtagonist: For the movie, [[spoiler: after Utena is turned into a car the narrative shifts to Anthy getting over her hang ups and escaping Ohtori herself.]]
