Do you know that anime called Shoujo Kakumei Utena, right? That anime that has been praised for its characterization and complex psychological issues, that has some good character development and has the topic of letting go off toxic relationships? Well, forget everything I said because this manga has none of that.
One prominent aspect of the anime is the surrealist and often unexplained events that happened in the background, well, they tried to replicate these events in the manga by teleporting the council members to the duel arena and then Utena appears which everyone seems to have forgotten, ah, and to add to that, everyone forgot EVERYTHING that happened at the Ohtori academy because... reasons. I know Ikuhara's works are full of unexplained stuff but this downright does not make sense.
This feels like when you meet your highschool friends after really a long long time at a homecoming reunion and you realize that... they haven't changed AT ALLl. Yeah, I really loved seeing the student council members again, but the fact they're basically the same than when they were teenagers feels sort of disappointing. While I feel glad to know what happened after the series, it feels like they threw most if not all the character development down the sewers.
This manga centers more in the student council rather than on Utena and Anthy, in fact, they barely appear in any of the three chapters. Anyway, if you're curious enough you might want to read this short manga... don't expect much, really, except from maybe some homoeroticism between Touga and Saionji or Miki and Kozue's... uh... whatever that was.
Ah and don't get me started with Juri. This was bad enough to make me remove her from my favorite characters. WHY THE F--K ARE YOU STILL CRYING FOR RUKA AND SHIORI? That is genuine stupidity Juri, you lost all respect I could have for you.
Yeah, what a good revolution to the world you made, Utena. I will make like this manga is not canon.
