As of July 2026, Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 aired in 1997 with 39 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1

1997 39 Episodes Animation · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it earns its premise rather than just borrowing genre trappings. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Tomoko Kawakami leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 is worth clearing space for. Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 1 of Revolutionary Girl Utena includes 39 episodes. It aired from April 1997 to December 1997. This season stars Tomoko Kawakami, Yuriko Fuchizaki and Takehito Koyasu. Tomoko Kawakami and Yuriko Fuchizaki lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1997. Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 a chance. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Tomoko Kawakami's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

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🎬 Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1 — Episode Guide

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...

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 ch...

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-diss...

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 An...

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 te...

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 b...

Unfulfilled Juri

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 dest...

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 Brea...

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...

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 th...

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. Howeve...

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 ...

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 (a...

The Boys of the Black Rose

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 acting chairman. Mikage Souji is a twelfth grader who organizes Mikage Seminar, aka the Black Rose Association. He ...

The Landscape Framed by Kozue

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't control their minds, not because of their skills. They say if they arrange someone whose mind they can control and mak...

The Cowbell of Happiness

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 Juri and Miki, the designer's brand is the top class. Nanami decides to wear it. However, the thing appears to be just a...

The Thorns of Death

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 had a crush on away from her. But Juri tells her that she didn't even care about that. Shiori wonders then whose picture ...

Mitsuru's Impatience

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 advantage of because he is just a child. Later, he begins to realize that he is treated as a child by Nanami. He wishes he wer...

A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost

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 Prince" is that when they were very young and she was made fun of her hair as "Onion Headed", he helped her out as "Onio...

Wakaba Flourishing

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. Since she has a secret crush on him, she is so happy with him. Besides, Wakaba feels so special of herself, being with a...

🎭 Cast of Revolutionary Girl Utena Season 1

Tomoko Kawakami

Tomoko Kawakami

Utena Tenjou (voice)

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Anthy Himemiya (voice)

Takehito Koyasu

Takehito Koyasu

Touga Kiryuu (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Kyouichi Saionji (voice)

Kotono Mitsuishi

Kotono Mitsuishi

Juri Arisugawa (voice)

Aya Hisakawa

Aya Hisakawa

Miki Kaoru (voice)

Yuri Shiratori

Yuri Shiratori

Nanami Kiryuu (voice)

Jurota Kosugi

Jurota Kosugi

Akio Ohtori (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Hikaru Midorikawa

Souji Mikage (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

Nozomu Sasaki

Ruka Tsuchiya (voice)

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