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The Best Episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena

Every episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena!

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"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

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#1 - End of the World
S1:E3812/17/1997
Utena vs. The End of the World. The truth is discovered.. about the duels, the Rose Bride, and the Prince.
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.7/10(3 votes)
#2 - The Terms of a Duelist
S1:E239/3/1997
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 consultant so that Utena can ask him when Utena or her friends have any problem. Thinking about Anthy's Rose Bride problem, Utena decides to see Mikage. But at Nemuro Memorial Hall, Utena finds photographs of Duelists, Kozue, Shiori, Wakaba, and others. Utena notices that Mikage is behind this whole thing. Utena challenges Mikage to a duel.
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
8.7/10(3 votes)
#3 - And Someday, Together, We'll Shine
S1:E3912/24/1997
Everything comes to an end. Something shiny, eternity, miracles, the revolution of the world. Catch the stunning climax to Revolutionary Girl Utena!
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.5/10(2 votes)
#4 - The Castle Said to Hold Eternity
S1:E95/28/1997
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. A memory crosses his mind about that raining day when he was a young boy... One day, he receives a letter from the Ends of the World, in which they say the castle will fall down to the Arena today. On the other hand, Utena gets a phone call from someone and he says Anthy is being kidnapped at the Forest of the Arena.
Director:Takuya Igarashi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Takuya Igarashi
Writer:Unknown
8.5/10(2 votes)
#5 - For Friendship, Perhaps
S1:E126/18/1997
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 many friends, *because* Utena, or the Victor of the Duel, so wished. Utena now loses herself. Wakaba, although she knows nothing about what's going on with Utena, she tries to cheer her up. Gradually, Utena gets back to herself. Utena goes to the rose garden to see Touga. Touga thinks she's come to accept his date offer. However, she challenges him to a duel.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
8.5/10(2 votes)
#6 - Azure Paler Than the Sky
S1:E2910/15/1997
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?
Director:Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
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Director:Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura

The 20 WORST Episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena

8.5/10(2 votes)
#7 - The Barefoot Girl
S1:E3010/22/1997
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.
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.5/10(2 votes)
#8 - The Romance of the Dancing Girls
S1:E3211/5/1997
After Touga attempts to get Nanami back, she refuses and blurts out the truth. Then... that night, she sees Akio doing something very forbidden...
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Noboru Higa
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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Noboru Higa
8.5/10(2 votes)
#9 - The Rose Crest
S1:E3411/19/1997
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.
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.5/10(2 votes)
#10 - The One to Revolutionize the World
S1:E3712/10/1997
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 she not?
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.3/10(3 votes)
#11 - Nemuro Memorial Hall
S1:E228/27/1997
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 Utena to join his Mikage Seminar, but Utena turns it down. Mikage talks about Nemuro Memorial Hall, where Mikage now holds his seminar. Decades ago, there was a professor called Professor Nemuro, who was doing some research at the hall. One day, there was a fire, and the hall burned down, which took away 100 lives of his students.
Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.0/10(2 votes)
#12 - Unfulfilled Juri
S1:E75/14/1997
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 destiny between her "prince" and herself. Juri challenges Utena to a duel and tells her to show that there are miracles by defeating Juri by a miracle.
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(2 votes)
#13 - Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower
S1:E116/11/1997
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. However, he challenges Utena to a duel. Believing that Anthy wants to quit being the Rose Bride, become an ordinary girl, and make many friends, Utena decides to beat her prince for Anthy's sake.
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(2 votes)
#14 - The Boys of the Black Rose
S1:E147/2/1997
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 is such a genius that he even writes papers for professors. The building of Mikage's office is called Nemuro Memorial Hall, where it is said that one hundred boys were buried alive long ago. Chida Mamiya has a right to become the Rose Bride. Mikage says he will do whatever it takes to make Mamiya the Rose Bride, and will obtain the Power of Dios and the eternal secret. Mikage says the End of the World admitted Mikage and Mamiya. They say they need a duelist good enough to beat Utena. In the elevator of Nemuro Memorial Hall, Kanae confesses she is suffering. She can't get along with Anthy no matter how hard she tries. Taking advantage of that, Mikage makes her a Black Rose Duelist.
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
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8.0/10(2 votes)
#15 - The Thorns of Death
S1:E177/23/1997
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 is in Juri's locket. One day, Juri finally decides to throw her locket away. However, someone picks it up and puts it in Shiori's dorm room so that Shiori will find what's inside. Now Shiori knows that Juri has been suffering from the secret crush on her. Shiori feels relieved from the sense of inferiority that she has been suffering from and struggling to get over with for a long time. Besides, she even feels a sense of superiority to Juri. However, she is also upset with the way Juri has been looking at her. "I understand." says Mikage to Shiori "I suppose you have no choice but to revolutionize the world. The way before you has been prepared."
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
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8.0/10(2 votes)
#16 - Wakaba Flourishing
S1:E208/13/1997
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 kind of special guy. However, she knows this life with Saionji won't last so much longer. She thinks once he returns to school, he won't even remeber her at all. Saionji is making a hair ornament for Wakaba to show his gratitude. Mikage suddenly appears before Saionji and makes a deal that Saionji will return to school. What Mikage wants Saionji to do in return, was to give the hair ornament to Anthy. Seeing Anthy wearing the hair ornament, Wakaba realizes that Saionji's mind has always been with Anthy and she can never be special. At Nemuro Memorial Hall, Wakaba confesses that she wants to beat special people.
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(2 votes)
#17 - Their Eternal Apocalypse
S1:E259/17/1997
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!
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
8.0/10(1 votes)
#18 - Her Tragedy
S1:E3110/29/1997
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 Anthy and Utena by Akio! This is gonna more troublesome then a duel for Utena.
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Noboru Higa
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Noboru Higa
8.0/10(2 votes)
#19 - And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night
S1:E3612/3/1997
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, while placing a bet. If he wins, she becomes his girlfriend.. if she wins, the Student Council no longer aims for the Rose Bride.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
7.7/10(3 votes)
#20 - Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden - Arranged)
S1:E269/24/1997
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 own Rose Bride!
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#21 - Nanami's Precious Thing
S1:E106/4/1997
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 they were very young, and later, from jealousy she killed the kitten. At Touga's birthday party, Utena brings a bunch of flowers to express her gratitude. But Nanami is very upset. Touga suggests them fighting a duel on the Arena by the code of the
Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Unknown
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#22 - The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime
S1:E3511/26/1997
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.
Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
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Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
7.0/10(2 votes)
#23 - The Rose Bride
S1:E14/2/1997
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 by her best friend, Wakaba, for the captain of Kendo Club, Saionji. For the sake of her best friend, Utena challenges Saionji to a duel. Then, Saionji tells her to come to the forest of the Duel Arena.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
7.0/10(2 votes)
#24 - For Whom the Rose Smiles
S1:E24/9/1997
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 challenges Utena to a rematch. Feeling the whole thing is just crazy, Utena decides to lose the Duel on purpose.
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Writer:Yoji Enokido
7.0/10(2 votes)
#25 - On the Night of the Ball
S1:E34/16/1997
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-dissolvable dress.
Director:Takashi Watanabe
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Takashi Watanabe
Writer:Yoji Enokido

Best Episodes Summary

"End of the World" is the best rated episode of "Revolutionary Girl Utena". It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Shingo Kaneko and written by Yoji Enokido, it aired on 12/17/1997. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Terms of a Duelist".