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Student council: Whoever is engaged to the Rose Bride has the power of miracles thanks to her mystical powers.

Utena looking between student council and Anthy (only visibly Desi student there): Wait are you guys just being racist

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Haru Dipthong's Utena Fansub Masterpost

On the 23rd of September 2024, @dontbe-lasanya and I began a project to retranslate the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. The project finished on the 7th of August 2025. The goals behind the project were to provide more natural dialogue between characters, do a better job of conveying the themes, and provide a nonbinary perspective on Utena the character, and I believe we achieved them!

To summarise my translation approach in one sentence, I would say I focus on rewriting the script as though it were originally written in the target language. This means, for example, never using honorifics like "sama" or "senpai" in the English translation and instead making up for it by using ways of indicating relationships and hierarchy in English such as changing the way characters speak around each other.

Translation Notes

Episode 1 - The Rose Bride

Episode 2 - For Whom The Rose Smiles

Episode 3 - On The Night Of The Ball

Episode 4 - The Sunlit Garden Prelude

Episode 5 - The Sunlit Garden Finale

Episode 6 - Take Care, Miss Nanami

Episode 7 - Unfulfilled Juri

Episode 8 - Curried High Trip

Episode 9 - The Castle Said To Hold Eternity

Episode 10 - Nanami’s Precious One

Episode 11 - Graceful And Ruthless; The One Who Picks The Flower

Episode 12 - For Friendship, Perhaps

Episode 13 - Tracing a Path

Episode 14 - The Boys Of The Black Rose

Episode 15 - The Landscape Framed By Kozue

Episode 16 - The Almglocken Of Happiness

Episode 17 - Thorns Of Death

Episode 18 - Mitsuru’s Growing Pains

Episode 19 - The Song Of The Fallen Kingdom

Episode 20 - Wakaba Flourishing

Episode 21 - Nasty Pests

Episode 22 - Nemuro Memorial Hall

Episode 23 - What Makes A Duellist

Episode 24 - The Secret Nanami Diary

Episode 25 - Eternal Apocalypse For Two

Episode 26 - Miki’s Birdhouse (The Sunlit Garden, Arrangement)

Episode 27 - Nanami’s Egg

Episode 28 - Whispers In The Dark

Episode 29 - Azure Paler Than The Sky

Episode 30 - The Barefoot Girl

Episode 31 - Her Tragedy

Episode 32 - The Romance Of The Dancing Girls

Episode 33 - The Prince Who Runs Through The Night

Episode 34 - The Rose Signet

Episode 35 - The Love That Blossomed In Wintertime

Episode 36 - And The Doors Of Night Open

Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionise The World

Episode 38 - The End Of The World

Episode 39 - Someday, Let’s Shine Together

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Touga is a creep but unfortunately "because I'm a feminist" is the funniest possible thing to say in both of those situations

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me whenever I hear someone singing America the Beautiful: nice Westing Game reference

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pov you are flossing with a very delicious minty cat toy I would like to eat thank you <3

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I have not watched a ton of anime and none of the shows to my recollection had filler episodes but is Utena's filler particularly batshit or is it all like this

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Interesting that Anthy seems to trigger the duels and/or tempt the reluctant into them... playing the piano to remind Miki of his sister, offering Juri the flower to remind her of her crush. Is this something she chooses to do or something she's required to do? Will we learn she's the one who displayed the love letter to Saonji to tempt Utena into challenging him?

Unrelated but I respect how the Utena animators refuse to draw a single frame more than they absolutely have to.

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Juri is disgusted by stolen butch valor

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Love that there have been no adults present in this high school ever since Utena exploded the hall monitor with her butch swag

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Adults have reappeared and one of the student council members just gaslit the vice principal

[altschmerzes]

i love you friendship and qprs and best friends and friends with benefits and mentorships and roommates and found family and surrogate parents and chosen siblings and rivalries every single specifically and actively nonromantic dynamic that exists

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Charles van den Eycken (1859-1923) "The Little Writer" (1913) Oil on panel

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me watching episode 6: Damn Nanami's treatment of this little kid is fucked up, speaks to the kind of power dynamics everyone is internalizing in this sch-hey what the fuck

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Odd that Utena and Miki are still hanging out on friendly terms after he challenged her to a duel and promised he'd do it again. The power of gossip overcomes all?

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Green haired guy attempts to get on Utena's social hour with guys whose asses she kicked and is soundly rebuffed

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Miki sure seems to speak authoritatively about Nanami's twisted incestual obsession with her sibling. Which could mean nothing

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Odd that Utena and Miki are still hanging out on friendly terms after he challenged her to a duel and promised he'd do it again. The power of gossip overcomes all?

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"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation