I've seen people talking about this show, but I've been kind of reluctant to give it a shot -- in your opinion, does it ever actually manage to transcend the otakubait vibe those character designs give off? Between the all-female cast and the fact that I've been seeing ads for the live-action stage show(?) plastered up all over Ikebukuro, I assumed it was yet another "girls being cute and/or suffering for the benefit of the presumed-male viewer who's going to imagine these characters as his waifus and ideally buy tons of merch" a la Madoka, Love Live, etc, and those franchises tend to really alienate me in a way that Utena did not.