If you loved Candy Candy: The Movie, try Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Candy Candy: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie is
Here's a film that really wants to be a fever dream. A transfer student at a mysterious academy finds herself dueling for the hand of a girl with strange powers. It's either profound or utterly ridiculous, but hard to deny its strange appeal.
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