Let's live our lives heroically, let's live them with style.
Even if the two of us are ever torn apart...
...take my revolution.
In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands.
Drawing close for comfort, we both swore:
Never again would we ever fall in love.
I see that photo of us smiling, standing cheek to cheek.
I look at it and a bit of loneliness starts to fill me.
Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt...
...reality keeps on coming recklessly.
I wanna find out where I am, the value of being me.
Gonna take who I've been up till now...
...and find the strength to throw it all away.
Strip down to nothing at all.
Become like a rose petal blowing free!
Even if the two of us are ever torn apart...
...I swear that I will change the world.
Miss Utena!
Good morning!
Morning!
She's so COOL!
OHTORI ACADEMY
For Whom the Rose Smiles
Morning!
Someone tacked somebody's love letter on the board.
Let's see. "And so, I dance with you in my dreams, dear Saionji."
Morning, Wakaba! Don't usually see you reading much.
What's the book? Huh?
Always.
She's always loved this guy.
But, after she's rejected...
...the next day she recovers, another man appears...
...and the heroine ends up with him.
When I read this before, I thought it was the lamest, stupidest book.
Now I read it and I think it's the greatest thing ever!
I said you were my true love! Utena! Utena! Utena!
I belong to you...
Um, Wakaba, please, enough with the "You're my true love" stuff.
Why?
Good morning.
If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born.
We are the chick. The world is our egg.
If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born.
Smash the world's shell!
For the revolution of the world!
Have you received your letters from End of the World?
-Yes. -I received mine.
We all receive letters from them...
...and then proceed according to the instructions within.
As it is written in this letter, Saionji failed yesterday...
...and the Rose Bride was engaged to the girl who won the duel.
Is someone who doesn't belong to the student council...
...receiving letters from End of the World?
Who knows?
But she wears the rose seal. I saw it with my own eyes.
And who is this girl?
Utena Tenjou. She's rather well known in the middle school.
Very popular.
Such a regal and lovely young girl...
Now, hold on! Someone we've never heard of just joins the duels?
If this happens again...
If it happens, what will you do? Drop out of the game?
Our letters are one-way messages from End of the World.
And we are free to follow them as we see fit.
When we opened the door to the arena with these rose seals...
...the phantom castle appeared, just as the letters said it would.
I know. Just seeing that proved I can't drop out of this now.
Quite. The letters from End of the World are specific.
The one who wins the Rose Bride in the duels and is engaged to her...
...will finally enter the castle...
...and gain the power to bring revolution to the world.
And that is why we must fight.
To think that best friends like us got assigned separate rooms!
God can be so cruel!
Can't help it. The student council decides these things.
Besides, getting a single is perfect for a cool gal like me.
But the east dorm hasn't been used for 10 years!
Bet you'll have a heck of a time cleaning it up!
10 years?
Well, I'll bet cleaning it by yourself...
...will be perfect work for the cool Miss Utena.
Anyway, my room's in the south dorm, third floor.
Come by and visit if you get sick of living in your haunted house.
See ya!
Hmm...A haunted house.
What's the deal? It's a pretty building.
Sheesh. Wakaba must've been pulling my leg.
Hello!
I'm Utena Tenjou.
Nobody home?
Don't tell me I'm the only one in here!
Let's see... Second floor, inner room...
10 years, huh?
It's possible.
Okay!
I'm sorry, Miss Utena. I'll be finished soon.
What are you doing here?
We'll be living together from now on.
-How do you do? -How do you do?
But, this is a single...
UTENA TENJOU
ANTHY HIMEMIYA
...isn't it?
Funny coincidence, huh? Us two being roommates.
You've really cleaned this place up.
Sorry you had to do it yourself.
I wanted to get it done by nightfall.
But they only just announced the dorm assignments, right?
Our getting the same room isn't just a coincidence.
It's the rules of the rose seal.
It's because I'm the Rose Bride.
Bride?
I must be engaged to whomever wins a duel.
Are you sure about this?
All right, first question:
What's with the mirage castle and the trick sword?
Mysteries.
Mysteries? You mean you don't know what they are, either?!
If you don't know, then why do you do that?
Why do you always dress like a boy, Miss Utena?
What, this? Well... Because I like to.
That's my answer.
Is our being here a problem for you?
I can't really say that, but...
Wait, "our"? Huh?
Let me introduce you. This is my friend, Chu-Chu.
-Your pet? -My friend.
Uh-oh!
Here you go.
How do you do, Chu-Chu?
I'm Utena Tenjou. Will you be my friend, too?
I've never seen Chu-Chu take to someone so well, Miss Utena.
Look, can you cut it out with the "Miss" Utena, please?
But I'm engaged to you, Miss Utena.
That again...
That Saionji guy was wearing a ring just like this one.
Do you know what this thing is?
All the members of the student council wear them.
It's a rose seal.
Whomever wears that ring is marked as a Duelist.
So, now that you're the current dueling champion...
...the others who wear the rose seal...
...will come to challenge you to duels.
You've gotta be kidding!
I've no intention of fighting these meaningless duels!
Oh, it's you, Mr. President.
Am I disturbing you, Mr. Vice President?
No, you're generally welcome into my domain.
Is the Kendo team captain going to fight the middle school girl again?
Of course. The power to bring the world revolution belongs to me.
That girl's engagement to the Rose Bride is a mistake.
That's too bad. That girl... Anthy Himemiya...
...is engaged to the winner of the duel.
You're wrong! She belongs to me.
She's to do as I command forever.
That's what's written in my exchange diary.
You keep an exchange diary?
Great...Me and that girl really are the only ones in this dorm?
Is this another one of those rose seal rules?
Chu-Chu, can you tell her to hurry up?
Otherwise this big feast is going to be a one-girl dinner.
Why, Anthy?! Why won't you do as I say?!
I'm sorry, Saionji.
I'm engaged to Miss Utena now.
But didn't you devote yourself to me completely when we were engaged?
Yes, but that's the past.
Our engagement is over.
Please forget about me.
You shameless!
You're a total disgrace!
No, YOU are!
You again...Good timing.
I lost the duel because I let my guard down.
Why don't we settle once and for all...
...who shall possess the Rose Bride?
I want a return match in the arena tomorrow, after class.
Ridiculous! I refuse to fight another meaningless duel!
I fought you yesterday because of Wakaba! For my friend!
I don't care about the Rose Bride!
That may be, but I do!
If you get engaged to the Rose Bride as a Duelist...
...then you must have no objections!
Those who oppose the student council vanish from this campus!
The school's regulations are quite specific.
All right, I accept your challenge!
See you after class tomorrow, in the arena!
Didn't you say you weren't going to fight any more duels?
No choice. If I don't fight him, I'll get kicked out of here.
Well, I'll just purposely lose, so there's no problem.
Of course. Do as you please.
Do you know? Do you know? Have you heard the news?
There's going to be another duel in the forest behind the school!
It's time we settled this.
You got me!
But I'm okay. I lost intentionally.
But, brave hero...
Losing may be harder than you think.
Do you know that?
Do you know? Do you know? Do you know that?
The absolute destiny: Apocalypse
Birth records, baptismal records, records of death
The absolute destiny: Apocalypse
My own birth, absolute birth
Apocalypse
A shining place in a desert of darkness
A gold-plated Shangri-La
Day and night turning back on one another
A time-plated Paradise Lost
The darkness of Sodom, the darkness of light
The darkness of distance, endless, endless darkness
The absolute destiny: Apocalypse
The absolute destiny: Apocalyptic darkness
You know the rules.
I lose if you knock the rose off of my chest.
Be careful.
Sure. It'd be stupid to get hurt in a duel I intend to lose.
Rose of the noble castle.
Power of Dios that sleeps within me. Heed your master and come forth!
Grant me the power to bring the world revolution!
Celestial age. Prehistoric sea.
Erosion. Accumulation.
3 billion years. The birth of life.
The age of land.
Cambrian. Oldovian.
Silurian. Devonian.
I have you!
DNA. Molecules.
Bacteria. Colony life.
I admire your courage. You put the rose before your own life!
Triassic. Jurassic. Cretaceous.
You understand.
Living or dying doesn't matter.
Lycopodium. Selaginella.
The one who loses their rose loses the duel.
Trilobites.
Gastropodia. Belenmite.
Ammonite.
Rose of the sea. Lily of the sea.
It may be the Sword of Dios, but it has no special power by itself.
Apple of the sea. Bud of the sea.
In the end, it must be wielded by a great swordsman!
Angel of the sea. Mirror of the sea.
I was careless yesterday, but now I'll show you my true power!
Doorway of the sea. Shimmer of the sea.
Carboniferous. Permian. Paleozoic.
You in the sea.
Both the sword and Anthy belong to me.
I in the sea.
They are the glory intended for Kyoichi Saionji!
The Paleozoic Era in my flesh.
Living on and on.
Prepare yourself!
Closer and closer to death.
The endless story of the Paleozoic.
Like a whale.
Like a dolphin.
Like a sea-lion.
I travel down into the depths of the sea.
Down through the history in the depths of the sea.
And at the bottom I find myself.
Ammonite!
What was that just now?!
Was that the power to bring the world revolution?
The Power of Dios?!
You didn't purposely lose?
I didn't do it for you.
I did it for Chu-Chu.
If you went with Saionji, he'd just tease Chu-Chu.
Missing truth and forever, kissing love and true your heart.
Hold me tight with your arms so true.
The key to unlock tomorrow is reality.
I want to keep on smashing lies apart.
No matter how much the two of us may talk...
...you still just can't see anything.
Excuses are fitting for adults who just cling to old stories.
The angels who were passed over don't need wings to fly!
Missing truth and forever, kissing love and true your heart.
I like who I'll be tomorrow and...
...I'll believe in myself because I want to believe.
I want to keep on hating lies.
That's great, Himemiya!
You've been nominated to be the dance party queen?
But I'm not going. I won't know anyone there.
All the more reason to go! You can make lots of friends!
I'll go if you say so.
But behind this dance party lies a trap.
Next time, on Revolutionary Girl Utena:
On the Night of the Ball
The absolute destiny Apocalypse.