But what's what I mean even if I explained myself poorly, by which I mean I wrote the wrong thing.
My original point was going to be that he Utena movie wasn't a recap, or a sequel or a side story, it was like another variation on the central concept that had a number of similarities and a number of differences to the original material. This is an unusual route to take when you're making a movie which has had a TV series because the main two methods for making a movie that ties into a series tends to be either be:
- a quick cash grab recap like Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
or
- another story set in the same world as the series that might tie into the show or it might not like Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heanven's Door and One Piece Movie 6.
The whole 'another variation on the same general concept' along the lines of the Escaflowne movie is an option that's rarely explored.