Juri x Shiori

JurixShiori is the femslash ship between Juri Arisugawa and Shiori Takatsuki from the Revolutionary Girl Utena fandom.

Canon
Juri is in love with Shiori, although her feelings are unrequited. Juri is the president of the fencing club and her motivation for dueling and winning the duel against Utena, have a lot to do with Shiori, because Juri wants to prove miracles are not real. In flashbacks, it's shown how Juri was friends with a fencing partner of hers, and a girl named Shiori. Shiori once told Juri that if she believes in miracles, her feelings for her loved one will be returned. However, since Shiori was jealous of Juri, thinking of herself as inferior to Juri, she tells the other fencing boy that Juri is in love with someone else, not him, because she thought the person Juri was in love with was him. They end up becoming a couple and Shiori finally thinks that if she's with this boy, Juri would start getting jealous of her for "stealing her boy". Sad and frustrated after the one person that told her to believe in miracles betrayed her, Juri sets out to prove they are not real.

She ends up winning the duel against Utena, however, right after Utena's sword comes down the sky to pierce Juri's rose, making her lose. Once again, Juri feels sad and defeated, and as she remembers Shiori's words, she's shown melancholically contemplating the picture of a locket she's always seen wearing. A locket with Shiori's picture in it. The one person she was actually in love with.

Black Rose Saga
After some time, Shiori has enrolled again at Ohtori Academy after having attended another institution through middle school. The unnamed boy she thought she had swiped from Juri is now out of her life for reasons never explained. Juri acts deliberately cold toward Shiori while Shiori herself, appearing soft and gentle, tries to repair the rift in their relationship. Trying to put away her feelings for Shiori for good, Juri takes the locket she wears, the one containing Shiori’s picture, and casts it into a lake. Shiori returns to her dorm room soon after only to find the window open, as if someone had broken in. She finds the locket, wet from the lake, sitting on the corner of her desk.

Shortly after opening the locket and realizing that it is her own picture inside, Shiori goes to the Black Rose Circle for an “interview.” As she descends into the Earth on the elevator, she reveals that she has always hated Juri out of jealousy: she has resented Juri for being better at almost everything, and it was for that reason that she had tried to steal who she believed was Juri’s crush. Now knowing that Juri is in love with her, she starts feeling pathetic for having done all that she did "for nothing". She thought Juri treated her nicely because she deemed her as inferior, but in reality, she was in love with Shiori. So she yells asking why did Juri loved her.

Shortly after this, she confronts Juri telling her she knows her secret. She pulls a sword from her chest, and then challenges Utena in the arena. Utena wins the battle entirely, and Shiori returns to live her normal life, seemingly without remembering a single thing. However, after waking up, Juri wears her locket with Shiori's picture in it, realizing that it seems like she can't get rid of her feelings that easily.

Akio Ohtori Saga
Ruka, the actual president of the fencing club, returns. When he returns, he takes Shiori as his girlfriend, though it is clear that he is just manipulating her because he wants to make Juri feel bad, as they are rivals. He duels Utena once with Shiori as his Rose Bride but he loses the match. He then dumps Shiori and begins to court Juri. Juri, always thinking about her beloved's happiness, asks Ruka to make Shiori happy, to come back with her. But he says he is in love with Juri and forcefully kisses her without her consent during a fencing match. She pushes him away, but as she does, she sees that he is holding her locket necklace. As he's about to step on it, Juri slaps him, falling in front of him. Ruka states that he will come back with Shiori. And because of this, Juri challenges him to a duel.

It is due to Ruka's feelings for Juri that he wants her to claim the power of Dios and defeat Utena in order to save her from her burdens and her never-ending attachment to Shiori. Juri denies she was ever in love with him. Ruka subsequently appears as Juri's Rose Bride in her final duel with Utena. Accidentally, instead of breaking her rose, Utena breaks Juri's necklace into pieces, freeing her from the unrequited love Juri had for Shiori.

Fanon
is one of the known and popular ships of the Revolutionary Girl Utena. Althoght it's not a very dear one since many people find Shiori's way of treating Juri very toxic. However, many sapphic fans of the show resonate with Juri's unrequited love since it's a pretty known lesbian (or sapphic) stereotype to fall in love with a straight girl. Many fans of the ship's favorite moment is when Juri finally gets freed of her necklace when Utena is the one who - accidentally - takes it away from her, indirectally freeing Juri.

Fandom
FAN FICTION