

Revolutionary Girl Utena
“The power to revolutionize the world!”
"Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. Now a teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy; however, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.
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1.The Rose Bride
02-04-199724mUtena 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 wit...

2.For Whom the Rose Smiles
09-04-199724mWinning 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...

3.On the Night of the Ball
16-04-199724mUtena 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 ot...

4.The Sunlit Garden - Prelude
23-04-199724mUtena 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 p...

5.The Sunlit Garden - Finale
30-04-199724mIn 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...

6.Take Care, Miss Nanami!
07-05-199724mLately, 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...

7.Unfulfilled Juri
14-05-199724mJuri 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 he...

8.Curried High Trip
21-05-199724mSomehow, 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...

9.The Castle Said to Hold Eternity
28-05-199724mIn 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 las...

10.Nanami's Precious Thing
04-06-199724mTaking 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,...

11.Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower
11-06-199724mHaving 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...

12.For Friendship, Perhaps
18-06-199724mUtena 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...

13.Tracing a Path
25-06-199724mIn 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 c...

14.The Boys of the Black Rose
02-07-199724mUtena meets Anthy's brother, Akio. Akio has been engaged to Ohtori Kanae whose father is the chairman of the board of trustees of Ohtori Academy. Her father is deceased, so Akio is...

15.The Landscape Framed by Kozue
09-07-199724mMikage and Mamiya figure that they can make use of the Student Council members to make duelists strong enough to defeat Utena. They say they were defeated just because they couldn'...

16.The Cowbell of Happiness
16-07-199724mNanami holds a party to show off her designer's brand pendant. However, Juri shows up with a more gourgeous pendant. Luckily for Nanami, a packet comes for Nanami and according to...

17.The Thorns of Death
23-07-199724mShiori, who Juri got a secret crush on, has transferred back to Ohtori Academy. Juri, however, is so cold to her. Shiori thinks the reason is that she took a guy she thought Juri h...

18.Mitsuru's Impatience
30-07-199724mTsuwabuki has still been serving Nanami as if he were her servant. Tsuwabuki's friend, Mari, isn't happy with him for being like that. She says Tsuwabuki is just being taken advant...

19.A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost
06-08-199724mOne day, Utena receives a love-letter from a guy. And the guy turns out to be Wakaba's childhood friend, Tatsuya, who she calls "Onion Prince". The reason why she named him "Onion...

20.Wakaba Flourishing
8.013-08-199724mLately, Wakaba has been acting so brisk. And she goes home straight right after school. Actually, Wakaba has a secret at home. She is hiding Saionji, who got expelled from school....

21.Vermin
8.020-08-199724mThe reason why Nanami's followers, Keiko, Yuuko, and Aiko, are with her even though Nanami is so bad-natured, is that they all have crush on her brother, Touga. One day, Nanami thr...

22.Nemuro Memorial Hall
8.027-08-199724mThere is only one black rose left now. Akio is wondering if Mikage will finally fight Utena himself. But instead of fighting, Mikage decides to include Utena in his side, and asks...

23.The Terms of a Duelist
8.003-09-199724mMikage asks Utena to join his seminar again, actually trying to include her in his side, the Black Rose Association. This time, to convince her, he also offers himself as a consult...

24.The Secret Nanami Diary
10-09-199724mTsuwabuki heroicly rescues Nanami and ends up spending time in the infirmary. While he is recovering Utena and Anthy have an usual opportunity to read a secret diary he's been keep...

25.Their Eternal Apocalypse
17-09-199724mAnthy and Utena move out of their dorm and into the right wing of the chairman's office so Anthy and Akio can be closer to each other. Then suddenly Saionji comes back to duel!

26.Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden - Arranged)
7.024-09-199724mThe End of the World use the recently injured Kozue to get Miki to duel with Utena! Of course, realizing it's his chance to get Anthy again.. he goes for it, and uses Kozue as his...

27.Nanami's Egg
01-10-199724mNanami is having dreams of her laying an egg.. unfortunately for her, she wakes up with an egg in her bed! Does this mean she's a mother?

28.Whispers in the Dark
08-10-199724mAn old friend named Ruka returns to the Academy after a long leave. He takes over the Fencing Team again, and then challenges Utena to a duel, using Shiori as a Rose Bride!

29.Azure Paler Than the Sky
15-10-199724mRuka is back once more, but this time he takes Juri and uses her to duel Utena for him! Will Utena be able to pull off another miracle?

30.The Barefoot Girl
22-10-199724mUtena has started thinking about her Prince again.. and if she's allowed to love someone else. Utena's world is about to change even more so.

31.Her Tragedy
29-10-199724mNanami finds out that her and Touga are not true siblings, and becomes overly depressed by this. To the point of running away from home... and suddenly being invited to live with A...

32.The Romance of the Dancing Girls
05-11-199724mAfter Touga attempts to get Nanami back, she refuses and blurts out the truth. Then... that night, she sees Akio doing something very forbidden...

33.The Prince Who Runs Through the Night
12-11-199724mAnthy has Akio deliver some roses to a far away place, taking Utena with him. After a day at the Carnival, Utena and Akio bond late at night.

34.The Rose Crest
19-11-199724mUtena is invited to a theater play, and takes Akio and Anthy. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that the play is about the truth behind the Rose Bride and the prince.

35.The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime
26-11-199724mTouga suddenly comes back into Utena's life, wanting to spend more time with her. Then, Touga finally realizes the truth about his life.. and how much he was used.

36.And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night
03-12-199724mTouga tells Utena the truth. About his true feelings, and that he's always loved her.. Unfortunately for Touga, Utena loves someone else. Touga then challenges Utena to a duel, whi...

37.The One to Revolutionize the World
10-12-199724mUtena has gone though many battles.. Friends, Student Council, and people she barely knew. Nothing will compare though, to the battle she must fight now. Will she battle or will sh...

38.End of the World
17-12-199724mUtena vs. The End of the World. The truth is discovered.. about the duels, the Rose Bride, and the Prince.

39.And Someday, Together, We'll Shine
24-12-199724mEverything comes to an end. Something shiny, eternity, miracles, the revolution of the world. Catch the stunning climax to Revolutionary Girl Utena!
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