I had a chance to rewatch a couple of episodes of this show recently, and was delightfully surprised to see how well it had aged. Lesbian fencing, it turns out, is timeless.
when i was still a huge anime nerd I saw the utena movie at a convention screening. Something went wrong and they accidentally had a raw japanese copy of the movie instead of the fan subbed version. So some 30 year old guy from the crowd who was cos playing as a charter from the show had to translate for the dialog for the crowd live. It stands in my mind as one of the saddest/most awesome surreal things ive ever experienced.