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The Worst 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 - 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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Director:Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer:Unknown
3.0/10(1 votes)
#2 - Tracing a Path
S1:E136/25/1997
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 (amitie); 2. choice (choix); 3. reason (raison); 4. love (amour); 5. adoration (adoration); 6. conviction (conviction); 7. self (soi). Akio says Utena might be the one they (Akio and Dios?) have been looking for. At this rate, she could reach to the duel called "revolution" and Dios could be released.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
4.0/10(1 votes)
#3 - The Cowbell of Happiness
S1:E167/16/1997
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 cowbell. Not knowing what a cowbell is for, from then on, Nanami is always wearing it and showing it off. Other people are aware of it, but can't bring themselves to tell her the truth. What's worse, Nanami is gradually turning into a cow because of the curse of the cowbell.
Director:Shigeo Koshi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Shigeo Koshi
Writer:Unknown
5.0/10(1 votes)
#4 - The Secret Nanami Diary
S1:E249/10/1997
Tsuwabuki heroicly rescues Nanami and ends up spending time in the infirmary. While he is recovering Utena and Anthy have an usual opportunity to read a secret diary he's been keeping on Nanami. But when Nanami's schemes are uncovered chaos arises and the bashful Tsuwabuki can't do anything to stop it.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Unknown
5.0/10(1 votes)
#5 - The Prince Who Runs Through the Night
S1:E3311/12/1997
Anthy has Akio deliver some roses to a far away place, taking Utena with him. After a day at the Carnival, Utena and Akio bond late at night.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
6.0/10(1 votes)
#6 - 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

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6.0/10(1 votes)
#7 - 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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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
6.0/10(1 votes)
#8 - 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
6.0/10(1 votes)
#9 - The Sunlit Garden - Prelude
S1:E44/23/1997
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 Anthy, and from jealousy, she tries to tease and razz her. Taking advantage of that, Miki makes a good friend of Anthy, and then Utena. Finding Anthy and Utena got poor grades in the previous math exam, Miki offers to tutor them. However, Nanami won't leave them alone.
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Writer:Yoji Enokido
6.0/10(1 votes)
#10 - The Sunlit Garden - Finale
S1:E54/30/1997
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 tells him that, because she is the Rose Bride, by the Rose Signet Code, she must obey the Victor of the Duel, or Utena at the moment. She even says that, if Utena told her not to play the piano anymore, she would not. Since he thinks it is his own fault that he lost Kozue's "glow" in the past, not to lose a "glow" again, Miki challenges Utena to a duel and tries to set Anthy free and protect her with his own hands
Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
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Director:Shingo Kaneko
Writer:Yoji Enokido
6.0/10(1 votes)
#11 - 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
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#12 - 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
6.0/10(1 votes)
#13 - Nanami's Egg
S1:E2710/1/1997
Nanami is having dreams of her laying an egg.. unfortunately for her, she wakes up with an egg in her bed! Does this mean she's a mother?
Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Noboru Higa
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Director:Hayato Date
Writer:Noboru Higa
6.0/10(1 votes)
#14 - Whispers in the Dark
S1:E2810/8/1997
An old friend named Ruka returns to the Academy after a long leave. He takes over the Fencing Team again, and then challenges Utena to a duel, using Shiori as a Rose Bride!
Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
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Director:Toru Takahashi
Writer:Ryoe Tsukimura
6.0/10(1 votes)
#15 - 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
6.0/10(1 votes)
#16 - 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
6.5/10(2 votes)
#17 - 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
Writer:Unknown
7.0/10(1 votes)
#18 - Take Care, Miss Nanami!
S1:E65/7/1997
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 boy. Nanami asks him to be her boyfriend, but she does not seem to know the difference between a lover and a henchman.
Director:Yukio Okazaki
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Yukio Okazaki
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7.0/10(1 votes)
#19 - 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
7.0/10(1 votes)
#20 - Curried High Trip
S1:E85/21/1997
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 Breathe Fire". which has mistakenly been replaced with the "Super Spicy 900 Billion X Curry, So Hot It Will Blast You to Smithereens and Make Phantom Elephants Trumpet Loudly". Scolded by her brother, Nanami flies to India to obtain more of the same spice.
Director:Akihiko Nishiyama
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Akihiko Nishiyama
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7.0/10(1 votes)
#21 - 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
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7.0/10(1 votes)
#22 - 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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7.0/10(1 votes)
#23 - 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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7.0/10(1 votes)
#24 - 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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7.0/10(1 votes)
#25 - The Landscape Framed by Kozue
S1:E157/9/1997
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 make him/her draw the sword and skill from a student council member, then maybe it is possible to make a duelist and have him/her defeat Utena by mind-controlling.
Director:Takafumi Hoshikawa
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Takafumi Hoshikawa
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Nanami's Precious Thing" is the worst rated episode of "Revolutionary Girl Utena". It scored 0/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/4/1997. This episode scored 3.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Tracing a Path".