Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (1999) on Netflix
NR19991h 26mActionAdventureAnimation
At Ohtori Academy, new student Utena Tenjou dresses as a boy and finds a rose-marked ring. Kyouichi Saionji challenges her to a duel for Anthy Himemiya, the Rose Bride.
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Plot summary
Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, where classmate Wakaba Shinohara shows her around. She watches Juri Arisugawa and Miki Kaoru fence, then runs into her ex-boyfriend Touga Kiryuu. After he leaves, she finds a ring engraved with a rose, like the one he wore, inside a white rose. In a rose garden she meets Anthy Himemiya, whose brother Akio Ohtori, the school's chairman, is away. Kyouichi Saionji, another student with a rose ring, calls Anthy the Rose Bride and challenges her to a duel with swords. The ring-bearers duel for Anthy's hand, and whoever holds the Rose Bride is said to gain the power to change the world.
Cast
- Leah Applebaumas Nanami
- Roxanne Beckas Kozue Kaoru
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (1999)
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The climactic scene, in which Utena becomes a pink sports car that Anthy drives to escape Ohtori Academy, met resistance from the film's staff, director Kunihiko Ikuhara said; he wanted a climax that would make the film memorable and unlike other action-dramas.- Animators who specialized in mecha anime were hired for the final car chase of Adolescence of Utena, and director Kunihiko Ikuhara noted that several of them were initially confused about why they had been hired to work on an Utena film.
- Adolescence of Utena was not centrally storyboarded; it was split among five storyboarders who each supervised a segment, with Takuya Igarashi, a storyboard artist on the TV series, handling "part A".
- The opening title sequence of Adolescence of Utena was made by modifying digital graphics through nonlinear composite editing on a supercomputer, a process that was relatively new for animation at the time.
- According to director Kunihiko Ikuhara, the staff of Adolescence of Utena were divided over whether to openly depict or only imply a kiss between Utena and Anthy; the kiss was included at his decision.
