Revolutionary Girl Utena

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Revolutionary Girl Utena

8.2

•FINISHED

Details

39
TV
82
68015
FINISHED
SPRING 1997
23m
JP
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological, Romance

Description

Just after Utena's parents died, she was consoled by a prince who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. Utena was so impressed by the Prince that she vowed to become one herself one day. A few years later, Utena is attending Ohtori Academy where she gives all the teachers headaches because she dresses in a boy's uniform so she can be like the prince she met long ago. <br><br> After Utena's friend is insulted by a member of the Student Council, Utena fights in a duel for her friend's honor. Utena's rose crest allows her to enter the dueling arena, where Utena wins the duel and becomes engaged to the Rose Bride. Unknowingly, Utena is pulled into a series of duels with other members of the Student Council for the possession of the Rose Bride. As she becomes fond of Anthy, the Rose Bride, she must fight to keep her friend safe and to discover the horrifying secret behind Ohtori Academy.<br><br> (Source: Anime News Network)

Episodes

Episode 1

1. The Rose Bride

Utena Tenjou is a schoolgirl in the eighth grade of Ohtori Academy. She has the strange memory that, when she was very young, she met a mysterious "prince" and was given a ring with a rose signet. One day, Utena finds guys are making fun of a love letter somebody posted, and she finds it was written by her best friend, Wakaba, for the captain of Kendo Club, Saionji. For the sake of her best friend, Utena challenges Saionji to a duel. Then, Saionji tells her to come to the forest of the Duel Arena.

Air Date: 4/2/1997Rating: 7.36

Episode 2

2. For Whom the Rose Smiles

Winning the duel with Saionji, Utena is now the Victor of the Duel and is to be "engaged" to the Rose Bride, who is Anthy. Next day, Utena and Anthy start living together in a dorm. Saionji, who is actually really in love, asks Anthy to get back on good terms with him, but Anthy refuses. Then, he challenges Utena to a rematch. Feeling the whole thing is just crazy, Utena decides to lose the Duel on purpose.

Air Date: 4/9/1997Rating: 8.25

Episode 3

3. On the Night of the Ball

Utena unintentionally unleashed the Power of Dios in the last Duel with Saionji, which attracted Touga's interest in her. Touga sends Utena a dress for the upcoming ball. On the other hand, Touga's sister, Nanami, thinks her brother likes Anthy, and in a fit of jealousy, she sends Anthy a water-dissolvable dress.

Air Date: 4/16/1997Rating: 6.96

Episode 4

4. The Sunlit Garden: Prelude

Utena and Miki are about to begin a duel. The rest of the episode and the following one are flashback to show what has caused this duel. Miki often plays a particular tune on the piano. He says he cannot truely play the tune as he wishes because he has lost a "glow". Nanami thinks that Miki likes Anthy, and from jealousy, she tries to tease and razz her. Taking advantage of that, Miki makes a good friend of Anthy, and then Utena. Finding Anthy and Utena got poor grades in the previous math exam, Miki offers to tutor them. However, Nanami won't leave them alone.

Air Date: 4/23/1997Rating: 7.42

Episode 5

5. The Sunlit Garden: Finale

In the tune Anthy just casually played, Miki found a "glow" that he had been seeking. He has a twin sister, Kozue, who used to play a tune with a "glow". However, she does not play the piano anymore because (he thinks) of his fault. Miki wishes to protect Anthy's "glow" in her tune; however Anthy tells him that, because she is the Rose Bride, by the Rose Signet Code, she must obey the Victor of the Duel, or Utena at the moment. She even says that, if Utena told her not to play the piano anymore, she would not. Since he thinks it is his own fault that he lost Kozue's "glow" in the past, not to lose a "glow" again, Miki challenges Utena to a duel and tries to set Anthy free and protect her with his own hands

Air Date: 4/30/1997Rating: 8.24

Episode 6

6. Take Care, Miss Nanami!

Lately, someone has been trying to take Nanami's life. Overhearing a conversation between Anthy and her brother Touga, Nanami misunderstands that Touga is the one who is trying to kill her. After that, someone saves Nanami out of a danger and she falls in love with him, who turns out to be a young boy. Nanami asks him to be her boyfriend, but she does not seem to know the difference between a lover and a henchman.

Air Date: 5/7/1997Rating: 6.82

Episode 7

7. Unfulfilled Jury

Juri believes there are no miracles. In the past, she secretly loved someone, but she couldn't win the person's heart. She thinks if there were miracles, she could have achieved her love. One day, Juri talks with Utena, and she gets enraged by Utena's words that she believes in miracles for the destiny between her "prince" and herself. Juri challenges Utena to a duel and tells her to show that there are miracles by defeating Juri by a miracle.

Air Date: 5/14/1997Rating: 9.18

Episode 8

8. Curried High Trip

Somehow, Anthy's curry and rice explodes and that shock switches Utena and Anthy's personalities. Now Utena is feminine while Anthy is tomboyish. The cause of the incident seems to be Nanami's practical joke, trying to mix in the curry the "100X Curry, an Indian Specialty Hot Enough to Make You Breathe Fire". which has mistakenly been replaced with the "Super Spicy 900 Billion X Curry, So Hot It Will Blast You to Smithereens and Make Phantom Elephants Trumpet Loudly". Scolded by her brother, Nanami flies to India to obtain more of the same spice.

Air Date: 5/21/1997Rating: 6.69

Episode 9

9. The Castle Said to Hold Eternity

In the Kendo Dojo, Saionji and Touga are fighting a Kendo duel. Touga defeats Saionji by a narrow margin. Utena hears from Saionji that they has fought hundreds of duels in the last ten years. Saionji also tells Utena that he wants to win the duels and take Anthy to the midair castle above the Arena. A memory crosses his mind about that raining day when he was a young boy... One day, he receives a letter from the Ends of the World, in which they say the castle will fall down to the Arena today. On the other hand, Utena gets a phone call from someone and he says Anthy is being kidnapped at the Forest of the Arena.

Air Date: 5/28/1997Rating: 8.36

Episode 10

10. Nanami`s Precious Thing

Taking the Rose Bride to the Arena without a duel besides inflicting a wound to Touga, Saionji is now expelled from school. Nanami blames Utena for Touga's wound. Utena apologizes, but Nanami doesn't forgive her. A memory crosses her mind that she gave a kitten to Touga as a birthday present when they were very young, and later, from jealousy she killed the kitten. At Touga's birthday party, Utena brings a bunch of flowers to express her gratitude. But Nanami is very upset. Touga suggests them fighting a duel on the Arena by the code of the

Air Date: 6/4/1997Rating: 7.70

Episode 11

11. Gracefully Cruel: The One Who Picks That Flower

Having observed the last five duels, Touga is now positive that he has completed collecting sufficient data to defeat Utena. Touga has been implying to Utena that he is the prince she has been looking for. One day, in the rose garden, Touga shows Utena that he is her prince in concrete terms. However, he challenges Utena to a duel. Believing that Anthy wants to quit being the Rose Bride, become an ordinary girl, and make many friends, Utena decides to beat her prince for Anthy's sake.

Air Date: 6/11/1997Rating: 8.44

Episode 12

12. For Friendship, Perhaps

Utena was defeated. But the real shock for her was not the fact that she was defeated, but the fact that from Touga's explanation, she learned that Anthy was just playing the role of the bride around Utena, which means Anthy pretended she wanted to quite the bride, become an ordinary girl, and make many friends, *because* Utena, or the Victor of the Duel, so wished. Utena now loses herself. Wakaba, although she knows nothing about what's going on with Utena, she tries to cheer her up. Gradually, Utena gets back to herself. Utena goes to the rose garden to see Touga. Touga thinks she's come to accept his date offer. However, she challenges him to a duel.

Air Date: 6/18/1997Rating: 9.21

Episode 13

13. Tracing a Path

In this episode, we review episodes 1 through 12 with Ohtori Akio's monologue (In the next episode, we will learn he is Anthy's brother). When he appears in the Arena, the midair castle falls down. Akio talks to Dios sleeping in the castle. He calls each of Utena's duels as follows: 1. friendship (amitie); 2. choice (choix); 3. reason (raison); 4. love (amour); 5. adoration (adoration); 6. conviction (conviction); 7. self (soi). Akio says Utena might be the one they (Akio and Dios?) have been looking for. At this rate, she could reach to the duel called "revolution" and Dios could be released.

Air Date: 6/25/1997Rating: 4.66

Episode 14

14. The Boys of the Black Rose

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.22

Episode 15

15. The Landscape Framed by Kozue

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.90

Episode 16

16. The Cowbell of Happiness

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 5.81

Episode 17

17. The Thorns of Death

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.00

Episode 18

18. Mitsuru`s Impatience

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.90

Episode 19

19. A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.66

Episode 20

20. Wakaba Flourishing

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.55

Episode 21

21. Vermin

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.08

Episode 22

22. Nemuro Memorial Hall

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.58

Episode 23

23. The Terms of a Duelist

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.26

Episode 24

24. The Secret Nanami Diary

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 4.81

Episode 25

25. Their Eternal Apocalypse

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.00

Episode 26

26. Miki`s Nest Box

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.76

Episode 27

27. Nanami`s Egg

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.39

Episode 28

28. Whispers in the Dark

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.51

Episode 29

29. Azure Paler Than the Sky

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.14

Episode 30

30. The Barefoot Girl

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.87

Episode 31

31. Her Tragedy

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.54

Episode 32

32. The Romance of the Dancing Girls

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.11

Episode 33

33. The Prince Who Runs Though The Night

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 7.81

Episode 34

34. The Rose Crest

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.71

Episode 35

35. The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.89

Episode 36

36. And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.31

Episode 37

37. The One Who Brings the World Revolution

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 8.68

Episode 38

38. End of the World

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.66

Episode 39

39. And Someday, Together, We`ll Shine

Air Date: Invalid DateRating: 9.73

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