Revolutionary Girl Utena
Revolutionary Girl Utena
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Revolutionary Girl Utena

The power to revolutionize the world!

8.1 / 10
1997
1 season
39 episodes
AnimationDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

"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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Seasons

  • The Rose Bride

    1.The Rose Bride

    02-04-199724m

    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 wit...

  • For Whom the Rose Smiles

    2.For Whom the Rose Smiles

    09-04-199724m

    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...

  • On the Night of the Ball

    3.On the Night of the Ball

    16-04-199724m

    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 ot...

  • The Sunlit Garden - Prelude

    4.The Sunlit Garden - Prelude

    23-04-199724m

    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 p...

  • The Sunlit Garden - Finale

    5.The Sunlit Garden - Finale

    30-04-199724m

    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...

  • Take Care, Miss Nanami!

    6.Take Care, Miss Nanami!

    07-05-199724m

    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...

  • Unfulfilled Juri

    7.Unfulfilled Juri

    14-05-199724m

    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 he...

  • Curried High Trip

    8.Curried High Trip

    21-05-199724m

    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...

  • The Castle Said to Hold Eternity

    9.The Castle Said to Hold Eternity

    28-05-199724m

    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 las...

  • Nanami's Precious Thing

    10.Nanami's Precious Thing

    04-06-199724m

    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,...

  • Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower

    11.Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower

    11-06-199724m

    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...

  • For Friendship, Perhaps

    12.For Friendship, Perhaps

    18-06-199724m

    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...

  • Tracing a Path

    13.Tracing a Path

    25-06-199724m

    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 c...

  • The Boys of the Black Rose

    14.The Boys of the Black Rose

    02-07-199724m

    Utena 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...

  • The Landscape Framed by Kozue

    15.The Landscape Framed by Kozue

    09-07-199724m

    Mikage 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'...

  • The Cowbell of Happiness

    16.The Cowbell of Happiness

    16-07-199724m

    Nanami 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...

  • The Thorns of Death

    17.The Thorns of Death

    23-07-199724m

    Shiori, 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...

  • Mitsuru's Impatience

    18.Mitsuru's Impatience

    30-07-199724m

    Tsuwabuki 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...

  • A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost

    19.A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost

    06-08-199724m

    One 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...

  • Wakaba Flourishing

    20.Wakaba Flourishing

    8.0
    13-08-199724m

    Lately, 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....

  • Vermin

    21.Vermin

    8.0
    20-08-199724m

    The 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...

  • Nemuro Memorial Hall

    22.Nemuro Memorial Hall

    8.0
    27-08-199724m

    There 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...

  • The Terms of a Duelist

    23.The Terms of a Duelist

    8.0
    03-09-199724m

    Mikage 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...

  • The Secret Nanami Diary

    24.The Secret Nanami Diary

    10-09-199724m

    Tsuwabuki 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...

  • Their Eternal Apocalypse

    25.Their Eternal Apocalypse

    17-09-199724m

    Anthy 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!

  • Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden - Arranged)

    26.Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden - Arranged)

    7.0
    24-09-199724m

    The 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...

  • Nanami's Egg

    27.Nanami's Egg

    01-10-199724m

    Nanami 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?

  • Whispers in the Dark

    28.Whispers in the Dark

    08-10-199724m

    An 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!

  • Azure Paler Than the Sky

    29.Azure Paler Than the Sky

    15-10-199724m

    Ruka 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?

  • The Barefoot Girl

    30.The Barefoot Girl

    22-10-199724m

    Utena 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.

  • Her Tragedy

    31.Her Tragedy

    29-10-199724m

    Nanami 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...

  • The Romance of the Dancing Girls

    32.The Romance of the Dancing Girls

    05-11-199724m

    After Touga attempts to get Nanami back, she refuses and blurts out the truth. Then... that night, she sees Akio doing something very forbidden...

  • The Prince Who Runs Through the Night

    33.The Prince Who Runs Through the Night

    12-11-199724m

    Anthy 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.

  • The Rose Crest

    34.The Rose Crest

    19-11-199724m

    Utena 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.

  • The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime

    35.The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime

    26-11-199724m

    Touga 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.

  • And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night

    36.And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night

    03-12-199724m

    Touga 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...

  • The One to Revolutionize the World

    37.The One to Revolutionize the World

    10-12-199724m

    Utena 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...

  • End of the World

    38.End of the World

    17-12-199724m

    Utena vs. The End of the World. The truth is discovered.. about the duels, the Rose Bride, and the Prince.

  • And Someday, Together, We'll Shine

    39.And Someday, Together, We'll Shine

    24-12-199724m

    Everything 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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