Wow, I never saw this — for the record I hope you had a great year too. I actually don’t have any I’ve published despite how much meta I’ve written about this show in private, haha. I haven’t gotten to publishing any meta in a long time. I hope you let yourself rewatch it; it’s a personally charged show that is so specific to your own experience with it and I know yours is very valuable. Utena is really special and I’m glad you seem to think so too :)