Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
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Cast & Crew.
Tomoko Kawakami
Utena Tenjou (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki
Anthy Himemiya (voice)
Rachael Lillis
Utena Tenjô
Takehito Koyasu
Touga Kiryuu (voice)
Takeshi Kusao
Kyouichi Saionji (voice)
Kotono Mitsuishi
Juri Arisugawa (voice)
Aya Hisakawa
Miki Kaoru (voice)
Yuri Shiratori
Nanami Kiryuu (voice)
Jurota Kosugi
Akio Ohtori (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Souji Mikage (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Ruka Tsuchiya (voice)
Yuka Imai
Wakaba Shinohara (voice)
Ai Orikasa
Kanae Ohtori (voice)
Chieko Honda
Kozue Kaoru (voice)
Kumiko Nishihara
Shiori Takatsuki (voice)
Akiko Yajima
Mitsuru Tsuwabuki (voice)
Akira Nakagawa
Keiko Sonoda (voice)
Ryotaro Okiayu
Tatsuya Kazami (voice)
Noriko Hidaka
Tokiko Chida (voice)
Maria Kawamura
Mamiya Chida (voice)
Hiro Yuuki
Dios (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Chu Chu (voice) / Chu Chu (voice) / Shadow Girl B-Ko
Kumiko Watanabe
Shadow Girl C-Ko
Chinami Nishimura
Mari Hozumi (voice)
Naoko Takano
Aiko Wakiya (voice)
Emi Motoi
Yuuko Ohse (voice)
Shinkichi Mitsumune
Original Music Composer
Shichiro Kobayashi
Art Direction
Kappei Yamaguchi
Shiori's boyfriend (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Tanaka (voice)
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Series Director / Original Story / Director / Original Concept / Storyboard Artist / Series Director / Director / Origin...
Katashi Ishizuka
Yamada (voice)
Shinya Hasegawa
Character Designer / Original Story / Key Animation / Animation Director / Character Designer
Yuichiro Oguro
Original Story
Takuma Suzuki
Suzuki (voice)
Chiho Saitō
Original Story / Comic Book / Original Concept / Original Story / Original Concept / Comic Book
Yoji Enokido
Original Story / Writer / Original Story
Masami Okui
Theme Song Performance
Toyomitsu Nakajo
Director of Photography
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Storyboard Artist
Takuya Igarashi
Storyboard Artist / Director
Mamoru Hosoda
Storyboard Artist / Key Animation
Jun Matsumoto
Storyboard Artist / Key Animation
Shingo Kaneko
Storyboard Artist / Director
Toru Takahashi
Storyboard Artist / Director
Junichi Sato
Storyboard Artist
Kazuhisa Takenouchi
Storyboard Artist
Yukio Okazaki
Director
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director / Key Animation
Hayato Date
Director
Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Director
Akihiko Nishiyama
Director
Shigeo Koshi
Director
Takashi Watanabe
Director
Takafumi Hoshikawa
Director
Hiroaki Sakurai
Director
Kagetsu Aizawa
Animation Director / Key Animation
Takao Abo
Key Animation
Hiroshi Nagahama
Animation Director / Key Animation
Takahiro Tanaka
Key Animation / Animation Director
Shingo Ishikawa
Key Animation
Yoko Kadogami
Key Animation / Animation Director
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Key Animation / Animation Director
Norimitsu Suzuki
Key Animation
Keiko Kawashima
Key Animation
Koji Ito
Key Animation
Hirofumi Masuda
Key Animation
Jun Nakai
Key Animation
Toshihiro Kikuchi
Key Animation
Akemi Kobayashi
Animation Director / Key Animation
Misao Abe
Key Animation
Hisashi Kagawa
Key Animation / Animation Director
Ayumi Abe
Key Animation
Hidenori Fukuoka
Key Animation
Yumi Nakayama
Key Animation / Animation Director
Hiroyuki Kambe
Key Animation
Shigeru Uchihara
Key Animation
Kazunori Iwakura
Key Animation
Kunihiko Inoue
Key Animation
Keiko Ijima
Key Animation
Junichi Takaoka
Key Animation
Shinichi Miyamae
Key Animation
Tadashi Abiru
Key Animation
Kenji Uchinou
Key Animation
Hiromi Kato
Key Animation / Animation Director
Chisato Ikehira
Key Animation
Hideki Takahashi
Key Animation
Nobuto Akada
Key Animation
Tamotsu Tomaru
Key Animation
Hiroko Togashi
Key Animation
Satoko Miyachi
Key Animation
Hirokazu Ishino
Key Animation
Rieko Nakai
Key Animation
Kimitake Nishio
Key Animation
Ryo Tanaka
Key Animation
Yuji Sato
Key Animation
Mikine Kuwahara
Key Animation
Hiromi Naganawa
Key Animation
Maki Fujioka
Key Animation
Kunihiro Abe
Key Animation / Animation Director
Akemi Hayashi
Key Animation / Animation Director
Shigeki Sunada
Key Animation
Makoto Kohara
Key Animation
Yoshinobu Ando
Key Animation
Masaki Nakaya
Key Animation
Kenichi Iino
Key Animation
Keisuke Watabe
Key Animation
Hideki Hamasu
Key Animation
Masazo Toma
Key Animation
Yutaka Nakamura
Key Animation
Megumi Kadonosono
Key Animation
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Key Animation
Hiroyuki Okuno
Key Animation
Junko Matsushita
Key Animation
Yasutaka Hanabusa
Key Animation
Miho Asatani
Key Animation
Yoshiaki Tsubata
Animation Director
Kazunobu Fuseki
Key Animation
Yoshiyuki Ito
Key Animation
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Key Animation
Takehiro Hamatsu
Key Animation
Yasuhiro Irie
Key Animation
Masaki Yamada
Key Animation
Takuya Matsumoto
Key Animation
Hiroyuki Shimizu
Key Animation
Akihiko Yamashita
Key Animation
Hiromi Furuhara
Key Animation
Keiji Gotoh
Key Animation
Hiroko Kazui
Key Animation
Takahiro Honma
Key Animation
Kazuya Komai
Key Animation
Osamu Komurai
Key Animation
Naomi Miyata
Animation Director
Tomoko Nakai
Key Animation
Kaoru Yabana
Key Animation
Ryoichi Oki
Key Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 2, 1997
Original Name少女革命ウテナ
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes39
Running Time24m
Content RatingTV-14
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Revolutionary Girl Utena (Japanese: 少女革命ウテナ, Hepburn: Shōjo Kakumei Utena) is a Japanese anime television series created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko Ikuhara and composed of himself, Chiho Saito, Shinya Hasegawa, Yōji Enokido and Yūichirō Oguro. The series was produced by J.C.Staff and originally aired on TV Tokyo from April to December 1997. Revolutionary Girl Utena follows Utena Tenjou, a teenaged girl who is drawn into a sword dueling tournament to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious girl known as the "Rose Bride" who possesses the "power to revolutionize the world".
Ikuhara was a director on the television anime adaptation of Sailor Moon at Toei Animation in the 1990s; after growing frustrated by the lack of creative control in directing an adapted work, he departed the company in 1996 to create an original series. While he initially conceived of Utena as a mainstream shōjo (girls' anime and manga) series aimed at capitalizing on the commercial success of Sailor Moon, the direction of the series shifted dramatically during production towards an avant-garde and surrealist tone. The series has been described as a deconstruction and subversion of fairy tales and the magical girl genre of shōjo manga, making heavy use of allegory and symbolism to comment on themes of gender, sexuality, and coming-of-age. Its visual and narrative style is characterized by a sense of theatrical presentation and staging, drawing inspiration from the all-female Japanese theater troupe the Takarazuka Revue, as well as the experimental theater of Shūji Terayama, whose frequent collaborator J. A. Seazer created the songs featured in the series.
Revolutionary Girl Utena has been the subject of both domestic and international critical acclaim, and has received many accolades. It has been praised for its treatment of LGBT themes and subject material, and has influenced subsequent animated works. A manga adaptation of Utena written and illustrated by Saito was developed contemporaneously with the anime series, and was serialized in the manga magazine Ciao beginning in 1996. In 1999, Be-Papas produced the film Adolescence of Utena as a follow-up to the television anime series. The series has had several iterations of physical release, including a remaster overseen by Ikuhara in 2008. In North America, Utena was initially distributed by Central Park Media starting in 1998; the license for the series has been held by Crunchyroll since its 2023 acquisition of Right Stuf and its subsidiary Nozomi Entertainment, which acquired the license for Utena in 2010.