BUNNY SNARED Nanami Kiryruu

 

We have a request by for Nanami Kiryuu of Revolutionary Girl Utena being bound and gagged as a Playboy bunny.

Nanami Kiryuu (桐生 七実 'Kiryū Nanami') is Touga Kiryuu's dramatic little sister who is often used as comic relief throughout the series as her love for her older brother borders on obsession is often seen using devious measures to punish the people who take her brother's attention away from her. Though her motivations are considered the simplest and least ambitious out of all the Duelists, they are no less real to her and she suffers just as much as all the other Student Council members throughout the series.

Nanami often makes various malicious attacks on students she deems inferior or worse, especially if they threaten her closeness to Touga Kiryuu (Nanami's older brother).

She has bordered on cruelty by drowning a kitten for stealing Touga's attention from her when she was a child as well as fighting with the intention to kill during duels. However, it is notable that she is one of the youngest in the cast and she does not register the severity of violence and death.

Touga uses her attachment to him against her, often manipulating her to play out her role in the dueling game. He believes her feelings for him are genuinely incestuous and teases her, much to her shock and misunderstanding.

A few filler episodes in the series are specifically dedicated to Nanami and are usually standalone-type situations, breaking the convention of a standard Utena episode. Each has a metaphorical theme exploring Nanami's character in a sympathetic light, but are otherwise "gag episodes", meant to be humorous and are especially notorious for their bizarre content. In those episodes, it is shown that Nanami has an oblivious and insecure side, for example when she assumed that girls laying eggs is normal and often thought of ludicrous scenarios where she ended up being considered eerie and unusual.

In the third arc of the anime, her sibling relationship with Touga is compared to Anthy Himemiva and Akio Ohtori after Nanami herself witnesses their sexual relationship. She becomes traumatized and attempts to prove to herself and her acquaintances that she is nothing like Anthy. Touga makes a sexual/romantic advanced towards her, which she declines with disgust.

After this experience, she becomes extremely critical of the duels and often gives advice to Utena Tenjou. She resigns from the student council and begins wearing the normal girl's school uniform again. Despite becoming aware of the faults lying within Ohtori, she remains critical of Anthy.