Watch revolutionary girl utena episode 11 online sub. The plot follows utena tenjou, a tomboy high school student who is drawn into a series of sword duels to win the hand of anthy himemiya, a mysterious student known as the rose bride. Revolutionary girl utena tv series 1997 filmaffinity. Find out more with myanimelist, the worlds most active online anime and manga community and database. Rewatchspoilers revolutionary girl utena episode 39. Watch revolutionary girl utena online subbed episode 11 at animekisa. After meeting a traveling prince who consoled her after the deaths of her parents, utena tenjou vowed to become a prince herself. The primary entries in the series include a 1996 manga written by chiho saito, a 1997 anime television series directed by ikuhara, and adolescence of utena, a 1999 feature film. Central park media bought the rights to the film in 2001, releasing it on vhs and dvd. While not quite as strange as the aforementioned works of art, revolutionary girl utena combines a seemingly normal shoujo story with enough outoftheordinary happenings to turn more than a few heads. Revolutionary girl utena is my alltime favorite anime, its a beautiful story with amazing aesthetics and fantastic soundtrack.
When utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. Watch revolutionary girl utena online full episodes of. If you have not seen the entire series, beware of spoilers. The trailer is a little cheesy, but the film is breathtaking. Utena tenjou anthy himemiya akio ohtori the student council members note touga kiryuu, juri arisugawa, kyouichi. After all, end of the worlds identity and motives remain a mystery. This revolution involves the complete collapse of the ohtori academy and the. Revolutionary girl utena anime recommendations animeplanet.
The manga ran for five volumes from 1996 to 1997, with the anime adaptation arriving in april of 1997 and running til september. Adolescence of utena is a 1999 japanese anime film. Revolutionary girl utena complete deluxe box set revolutionary girl utena. Vowing to be just like him, she began dressing in boys clothes and attending the exclusive ohtori academy. This wiki is dedicated to the manga and anime adaptation of chiho saitos shoujo kakumei utena, otherwise known as revolutionary girl utena. The following are the characters from revolutionary girl utena. After the revolution, junji itos remina, and more coming from viz book release. Lien fan shen 20 collaborative and collective creativity in animation and videogame production. The movie dvd, 2001, 2disc set, limited edition at the best online prices at ebay. List of revolutionary girl utena episodes wikipedia. Revolutionary girl utena was a 39episode series that debuted in 1997.
The series aired between april 2, 1997 and december 24, 1997 on tv tokyo in japan and spanned 39 episodes. Episode 8, curried high trip it means if you do something bad, bad things will happen to you. Judging by the lighthearted nature of the first episodes from revolutionary girl utena, one would think that it is something like sailor moon in fact, the creator of this series used to work on that anime show but it eventually turns into something much more complex. I thought revolutionary girl utena volume 1 was okay, but i thought the episodes of the anime covering the same content were a little less weird and i preferred that. Shojo kakumei utena is a japanese franchise created by the production group bepapas, which began as a manga in 1996 and subsequently adapted into an anime series consisting of 39 episodes in 1997, as well as a movie, a video game and a series of musicals. When her parents died when she was only a child, she fell into a serious depression. Utena includes, describes, averts, inverts, and subverts a. It belongs to a genre called magical girl, a type of fantasy in which the protagonist is a girl with supernatural abilities. Shojo kakumei utena is a series created by bepapas, an artist collective founded by kunihiko ikuhara. Utena duels her classmates to protect her friend anthy, who is the key to a magical power that could make her dream to become a prince come true. Just after utenas parents died she was consoled by a prince who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. Adolescence of utena was the brainchild of ikuhara specifically, who pulled bepapas back together for a reiminaging of the utena universe as a film, which was released in theaters in japan in 1999.
Revolutionary girl utena and princess tutu both take classical fairy tale elements and use them to make something unique, but recognizable. Adolescence of utena is a richly detailed and visually stunning film, with a. The title character, utena tenjou, had been befriended by a kind prince as a child. There is a lot to talk about, but in particular i want to discuss anthy. Despite being created simultaneously by the creative collective bepapas, revolutionary girl utenas manga version, written and drawn by chiho saito, predates its anime version by roughly a year. Revolutionary girl utena project gutenberg selfpublishing. A playthrough of segas 1998 licensebased adventure game for the sega saturn, revolutionary girl utena. But utenas true identity is actually a girl, who due to a certain event from her.
Looking to watch revolutionary girl utena anime for free. Revolutionary girl utena saturn translated playthrough. The anime series revolutionary girl utena was produced by the japanese animation studio j. At its simplest, it is a fairy tale set on its head. Revolutionary girl utena is the story of a girl who dared to become a prince and was told her whole life, no. The critically acclaimed revolutionary girl utena returns in an amazing limited edition set.
Utena was so impressed by the prince that she vowed to become one herself one. She finds utenas lack of regard for the dueling game to be sensible, but jury still hopes to accomplish something by winning. An englishlanguage dubbed version of the film produced by central park media was released in 2001 as revolutionary girl utena. Based on the japanese animated series of the same name, revolutionary girl utena involves the plight of utena into womanhood through fighting techniques. List of revolutionary girl utena episodes manga wiki. Revolutionary girl utena both show and film are available on hulu though i have to warn that its only the dub, which isnt good. Watch all revolutionary girl utena episodes from season 1,view pictures, get episode information and more.
The 39episode anime series revolutionary girl utena is based on the manga of the same name by chiho saito. Revolutionary girl utena season 1 episode guide on. The movie takes the series story and runs with it, intensifying the sexual tension among the students at ohtori academy and incorporating even more surreal visual and thematic elements than the series. Yabuki and performed by masami okui also appear in the film. Unlike anime which are weird for the sake of being weird, there is a method to the madness that makes revolutionary girl utena anything but. Essentially a retelling of the television series, revolutionary girl utena. There is bad acting and bad understanding of the material. It followed the tale of utena tenjou, a girl who was consoled by a prince following the death of her parents, and who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. In 2001, central park media released the film as revolutionary girl utena. Looking for information on the anime shoujo kakumei utena revolutionary girl utena. Revolutionary girl utena was recommended to me because it has a special place in anime and manga history for its portrayal of princely ladies and lesbian ladies in the anime.
Her goal leads her to ohtori academy, where she finds herself drawn into a series of. At the very start of the series, we are given a vague explanation of some of the events that lead to utena becoming who she is today. Both begin with an almost monsteroftheweek type plot mixed with fun, schoollife and move on to be quite a bit darker than one might expect. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival. The movie you are looking for humorous, surreal and stylized movies about with incest, sexuality, memory, duel, ring, corpse and rose themes of animation, action and adventure genre shot in japan. Drama, fantasy, mystery, psychological, shoujo duration. Revolutionary girl utena tv series is a tv series directed by kunihiko ikuhara, takuya igarashi with animation. The movie has all of these elements, plus a new take on the story.
With the complete shutdown of central park media and software sculptors in 2008. Revolutionary girl utena ending hd remastered youtube. The film is a compressed retelling of the story of television series, though with significant differences in plot execution for example, the relationship between utena and anthy is rendered as overly sexual and with heightened. The prince left utena only with a ring bearing a strange rose crest and a. He thought the love letter utenas friend wakaba wrote to him was stupid, and threw it in the trash. Adolescence apocalypse is a loose retelling of the revolutionary girl utena tv series. The revolutionary girl utena boxset wins all duels. The critically acclaimed revolutionary girl utena returns in an amazing limited edition set that includes the adolescence of utena movie as the final duel rapidly approaches, the student councils will to continue is beginning to waver.
Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up. Jury, the fencing team captain, has taken a special interest in utena lately. They were the words of a prince, who wrapped her in his rosescented embrace and bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. Revolutionary girl utena is routinely described as neon genesis evangelion for girls, and not without good reason. Revolutionary girl utena caption cover of the newtype artbook newtype ultimate.
The characters, while many have done 180s with their personalities, are still as captivating as ever. Based on the japanese animated series of the same name, revolutionary girl utena involves the plight of utena into womanhood through fighting techniques and other physical drama. Revolutionary girl utena is an anime series based on the manga comic book of the same name. Until then, revolutionary girl utena adolescence apocalypse not utenas adolescence as translated here is a simmeringly angsty, almost erotic film that is visually entrancing and unique, not unlike angels egg and the urusei yatsura films in surreality and possibilities of interpretation. Its the story of that same girls loss of innocence, and her subsequent. Revolutionary girl utena tv series 1997 revolutionary. Utena arrives at ohtori academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate anthy himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. With the complete shutdown of central park media in 2009, the distribution.
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