Utena Ep 20-23

I watched these episodes last week and meant to write them up but I clearly don't have the stamina to do it before I watch more tomorrow. So I'm doing Lazy Notes this time.

• WAKABAAAAAAA
• Mikage. Damn. Why has he condescended to me in his memory with those flashing pointers? Or perhaps... perhaps this is supposed to make me draw a parallel with the roses in Main Utena. Perhaps the roses are a sign that the whole story is being told from someone's memory or something.
• Mikage in his purple flashback outfit is so rectangular he looks like a Poptart. Trust me on this.
• I miss Touga. He appears, and stands and walks and everything, but he hasn't spoken since episode 12 I think. Sure, Nanami's minion assaults him or something, but.... COME BACKKKK
• There was a Miki Stopwatch moment somewhere in these episodes and I need to catalogue it.
• Okay. Who was taking photos of all those duels. Mikage??? It's plausible; for the first couple duels people kept lurking in some other location and spying on the duels with binoculars. (And hey, how do you get to that OTHER building????)
• Also photo-related: I swear some of them were real life photos of random guys (perhaps animators?). That would be fun :D
• I see. Mikage has been hallucinating Mamiya this whole time; or, Anthy has shapeshifted into (a warped version of) Mamiya? Or Anthy was there as herself and Mikage just superimposed a Mamiya upon her? This is presumably why Anthy has been so tired lately, but she didn't SEEM to know why; either that's an act or she's had her memory manipulated or something.
• No one's going to explain why Mamiya was getting dressed when we first met them. CONCERN.
• Mikage/Mamiya is now even more unsettling than it was before. Also, there are many gender thoughts here......
• Anyway Akio now retcons Mikage out of existence. Goodbye! I would've liked to know why he didn't accept the professors' bribes but maybe if he (a fake? person) accepted real money, the world would explode due to paradox.
• Good old trustworthy Akio. He seems to be immortal now? Good for him I guess. New theory: the Prince is Akio. Yes, we've seen them talking together. As if Akio couldn't split his personality or something into two bodies, why not? If he can just casually bring Mikage into/out of existence?