u/Frosty-Top-199

I've been seeing this sentence a lot on tiktok and it seems that people didn't get what was going on during the show. Like, you literally have a man playing the Rose Bride during the Black Rose Arc and it's implied that Akio made the boys go through the same things he did to Anthy and Utena. The movie takes it even further and explicitly shows it. And plotwise, if the Rose Bride's purpose is to take the burden instead of the Prince, isn't the Prince also a Rose Bride, since he also sacrificed himself for the sake of the world? I think people try to overly simplify that quote from anthy about all girls being rose brides as if she were a reliable narrator.