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Originally Posted by Triple_R
For the characters, though, it's real. Those who go into the Child Broiler really are getting, well, killed pretty much.
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I disagree. Ikuhara doesn't play strait with these things.
Spoiler for Utena movie:
Did Utena really became a car at the end of the Utena movie? We certainly see her as a car, and Anthy even drove her
. But there was no car. I mean, there was and there wasn't.
The point of this ambiguity is to drill into the viewer that it's IRRELEVANT whether it's real or not. The only thing that matters is the metaphor, the meaning behind it.
It's the same with the Child Broiler. Ikuhara will never tell you if it's a real place (inside the story) or not, because it doesn't' matter at all. What matter is the theme.