Jury Arisugawa is the 10th-grader captain of the fencing team. Actually, she's just the acting captain, since the real captain is absent because of illness. Jury is an extreme realist and pretty cynical. She does not believe in any sort of luck or miracles, although, she would like to... This stems from when Jury was younger. She was friends with a girl named Shiori and an unnamed boy, who Shiori had a crush on. Shiori though that Jury also liked this boy, but the truth was that Jury really liked her... Shiori "stole" the boy away from Jury, not realizing that her friend's anger came not from the fact that she stole (what Shiori thought) was the object of her affection, but from the fact that Jury could not let her feelings toward Shiori be known. Shiori had told her to "believe in miracles, and they will know your feelings." After Shiori began going out with the boy and then transferred to a different school, Jury became extremely bitter towards anything miraculous. She even duelled Utena because she was so disgusted by the way Utena felt about her prince. She described her bond with the prince of her memories as "kind of like a miracle", and Jury did not like that one little bit. The way she lost the duel was even more miraculous... In the Black Rose Saga, Shiori comes back to Ohtori Academy, creating a few problems between her and Jury. Jury is still tormented by the fact that she loves Shiori but does not have the courage to tell her. The love she has for Shiori is one of the unique things of the series. Like the love that Utena has for Anthy but unlike the love that other characters have for each other, Jury's love is selfless. She doesn't really care whether she ever "gets together" with Shiori, she only cares that Shiori is happy.

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Wow, Jury in girl's clothes! She's pretty...

Boy, was she surprised when that happened.

"Come to think of it, I don't even remember that boy's name..." Golly, this part was so sad...

Wow, she actually looks serene :)

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