# E1 - The Rose Bride
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**[00:08] ---**
Let's live heroically, let's live with style.
*isagiyoku kakko yoku ikite yukou*
**[00:15] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[00:20] ---**
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:20] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:23] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
**[00:24] ---**
In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands.
*hikarisasu garden te wo toriai*
**[00:29] ---**
Drawing close for comfort, we both swore...
*chikai atta nagusame atta*
**[00:32] ---**
...never again would we ever fall in love.
*mou koi wa ni do to shinai yotte*
**[00:39] ---**
I see that photo of us standing cheek to cheek...
*hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shashin no*
**[00:47] ---**
...and place a bit of my loneliness in our smiles.
*egao ni sukoshi no samishisa tsumekonde*
**[00:56] ---**
Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt...
*yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuitemo*
**[01:00] ---**
...reality keeps on coming recklessly.
*genjitsu wa gamushara ni kuru shi*
**[01:04] ---**
I wanna find my own place, the value of being...
*jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai*
**[01:07] ---**
...the person I've been until now...
*kyou made no jibun wo*
**[01:11] ---**
Let's find the strength to throw it all away.
*isagiyoku nugisuteru*
**[01:13] ---**
Strip down to nothing at all.
*hadaka ni naru*
**[01:15] ---**
Become like rose petals, blowing free!
*jiyuu wo mau bara no you ni*
**[01:19] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[01:22] ---**
...I swear that I will change the world.
*watashi wa sekai wo kaeru*
**[01:32] ---**
Once upon a time, years and years ago...
**[01:35] ---**
...there was a little princess,
and she was very sad...
**[01:39] ---**
...for her mother and father had died.
**[01:43] ---**
Before the princess appeared a traveling prince...
**[01:47] ---**
...riding upon a white horse.
**[01:49] ---**
He had a regal bearing and a kind smile.
**[01:52] ---**
The prince wrapped the princess
in a rose-scented embrace...
**[01:56] ---**
...and gently wiped the tears from her eyes.
**[01:59] ---**
"Little one," he said, "who bears
up alone in such deep sorrow."
**[02:03] ---**
"Never lose that strength or nobility,
even when you grow up."
**[02:07] ---**
"I give you this to remember this day."
**[02:09] ---**
"We'll meet again, won't we?"
**[02:12] ---**
"This ring will lead you to me, one day."
**[02:18] ---**
Perhaps the ring the prince gave
her was an engagement ring.
**[02:25] ---**
This was all well and good,
but so impressed was she by him...
**[02:30] ---**
...that the princess vowed to
become a prince herself one day.
**[02:34] ---**
But was that really such a good idea?
**[02:39] ---**
The Rose Bride
**[02:52] ---**
She's late.
**[02:59] ---**
Oh... How long does she
expect me to wait here?!
**[03:03] ---**
I'm going to start the new term by being late!
**[03:05] ---**
Wakaba!
**[03:06] ---**
What are you doing over there?
**[03:09] ---**
Waiting to meet my boyfriend.
**[03:11] ---**
"Boyfriend?"
**[03:14] ---**
Well, she ditched you.
**[03:16] ---**
She left the dorm really early this morning!
**[03:21] ---**
Why, that... She's gonna pay!
**[03:51] ---**
OHTORI ACADEMY
**[04:35] ---**
Utena Tenjou.
**[04:37] ---**
Do you intend to continue wearing...
**[04:39] ---**
...that weird getup for this term as well?
**[04:41] ---**
Weird getup?
**[04:43] ---**
Yes, weird.
**[04:44] ---**
It looks good enough on all the boys here.
**[04:47] ---**
Except you're a girl!
**[04:48] ---**
So why are you wearing a boy's uniform?!
**[04:59] ---**
There's no rule that says a girl
can't wear a boy's uniform.
**[05:03] ---**
I guess there's no problem.
**[05:05] ---**
Well, that's just the way it goes.
**[05:07] ---**
Why that... She's going to make
a fool of me for another term?!
**[05:38] ---**
Great. She aced us again.
**[05:43] ---**
Mistress Utena! You can use my towel!
**[05:47] ---**
Sure, sure. It's your turn.
**[05:54] ---**
C'mon, Tenjou. If you join my basketball team...
**[05:58] ---**
...winning the regionals would be easy!
**[06:01] ---**
Excuse me, I happen to be a girl!
**[06:04] ---**
I'd be embarrassed to get all
covered with smelly boys' sweat!
**[06:06] ---**
Oh, come on!
**[06:08] ---**
You act like a guy anyway, Tenjou!
**[06:10] ---**
Would you quit insulting me?!
**[06:13] ---**
So, then, why do you wear that uniform?
**[06:16] ---**
To be a prince.
**[06:18] ---**
Huh?
**[06:19] ---**
I want to be a noble prince
who saves princesses.
**[06:24] ---**
And what's that supposed to mean?
**[06:37] ---**
This smell...
**[07:07] ---**
The scent of roses...
**[07:11] ---**
Why does the scent of roses
always make me think of the past?
**[07:23] ---**
Hmm? What's going on?
**[07:25] ---**
A lover's quarrel?
**[07:27] ---**
They should do that where no one has to see it!
**[07:35] ---**
Whoa, hold it.
**[07:36] ---**
That's going a little too far.
**[07:45] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[07:47] ---**
Utena!
**[07:48] ---**
Agh! Wakaba! You're heavy!
**[07:52] ---**
This is for ditching me this morning!
**[07:54] ---**
Deal with it!
**[07:56] ---**
Right, right...
**[07:57] ---**
Oh, it's Saionji!
**[07:59] ---**
Saionji?
**[08:00] ---**
Don't you know about Saionji?
**[08:03] ---**
Oh? He's famous, huh?
**[08:05] ---**
I recognize the guy in front of him.
**[08:07] ---**
That's Touga Kiryuu,
the student council president.
**[08:09] ---**
Yup! And the guy next to him is
the vice president, Kyoichi Saionji!
**[08:14] ---**
And the girl?
**[08:16] ---**
Oh, that's Anthy Himemiya.
**[08:18] ---**
Anthy Himemiya...
**[08:20] ---**
She's weird.
**[08:22] ---**
She just keeps to herself
and takes care of the roses.
**[08:24] ---**
We've got her in our class for this term.
**[08:26] ---**
Hmm...
**[08:28] ---**
So, is Saionji going out with Himemiya or what?
**[08:31] ---**
No way!
**[08:32] ---**
Someone as cool as Saionji would
never fall for a girl like that!
**[08:36] ---**
They're just together because
they're both on the student council.
**[08:39] ---**
So, is that the type you fall for, Wakaba?
**[08:45] ---**
Oh, wow! Are you jealous?!
**[08:48] ---**
Don't worry!
**[08:49] ---**
You'll always be my true love, Utena!
**[08:51] ---**
You're WAY cooler than
any of those guys can be!
**[08:58] ---**
You called me out here on short
notice, my dear council members.
**[09:01] ---**
Saionji, we who wear the Rose
Seal are all chosen members.
**[09:06] ---**
Don't forget that adhering to the Code...
**[09:08] ---**
...is the only rule we must follow.
**[09:10] ---**
Saionji, your treatment of the Bride recently...
**[09:14] ---**
...is causing us some concer-
**[09:15] ---**
Oh? Is that so?
...is causing us some concer-
**[09:16] ---**
Oh? Is that so?
**[09:18] ---**
True, you are currently engaged to her.
**[09:21] ---**
But that doesn't mean you're
free to treat her as you please.
**[09:25] ---**
As he pleases...
**[09:27] ---**
As he pleases.
**[09:28] ---**
Don't abuse the Bride, Saionji.
**[09:32] ---**
The student council exists by
the will of End of the World.
**[09:36] ---**
If he learns of this, he won't let it go lightly.
**[09:40] ---**
Mind your own business.
**[09:43] ---**
The Bride and I are just a happy pair of lovebirds.
**[09:47] ---**
We don't want you meddling in our affairs.
**[09:50] ---**
Lovebirds...
**[09:52] ---**
For now I am... Master Saionji's Bride.
**[09:56] ---**
I will do whatever Master Saionji tells me to do.
**[09:58] ---**
See what a nice couple we are?
I will do whatever Master Saionji tells me to do.
**[09:58] ---**
See what a nice couple we are?
**[10:01] ---**
And if you're so concerned about
the Code of the Rose Seal...
**[10:05] ---**
...then you may follow the Code
and duel with me for the Bride.
**[10:09] ---**
My fellow council members.
**[10:10] ---**
Don't forget that a new Duelist will soon be here-
**[10:13] ---**
I look forward to seeing who will challenge me.
**[10:36] ---**
Oh, it's so pretty!
**[10:39] ---**
A rose crest.
**[10:41] ---**
Is that our school's crest?
**[10:44] ---**
Sure looks like it.
**[10:46] ---**
Who gave it to you?
**[10:48] ---**
A prince on a white horse.
**[10:50] ---**
Huh?
**[10:51] ---**
"This ring will lead you to me, one day"...
**[10:55] ---**
What do you mean?
**[10:56] ---**
I remember someone saying
that to me when I got it.
**[11:01] ---**
I was so young that I can hardly remember it.
**[11:04] ---**
Oh, I know what you mean.
**[11:06] ---**
When I was little,
**[11:07] ---**
I used to believe my mother when...
**[11:09] ---**
...she'd tell me I was a princess
from the Onion Kingdom.
**[11:12] ---**
Well, you've always had a big forehead, I guess.
**[11:21] ---**
Hm? What's going on?
**[11:27] ---**
What's that?
**[11:28] ---**
Someone tacked somebody's
love letter on the board.
**[11:31] ---**
Love letter?
**[11:33] ---**
Okay, what've we got here?
**[11:35] ---**
"And so, I dance with you in
my dreams, dear Saionji."
**[11:39] ---**
"You smile at me, gently."
**[11:42] ---**
"I guess I'm a fool..."
**[11:44] ---**
Oh, man!
**[11:47] ---**
You're the fools!
**[11:49] ---**
There's nothing lower than
what you guys are doing!
**[11:52] ---**
What's wrong with reading
something that's tacked up?
**[11:53] ---**
In this case, a REAL man wouldn't read it!
**[12:01] ---**
Wakaba...
**[12:05] ---**
Wakaba!
**[12:11] ---**
You wrote this to Saionji, didn't you?
**[12:18] ---**
That Saionji guy's gonna pay for this!
**[12:22] ---**
I don't know. I throw a lot of letters away.
**[12:26] ---**
Anyone could have found it and put it up.
**[12:29] ---**
Why'd you throw it away where
other people could find it?!
**[12:32] ---**
I can do whatever I want with my own letters.
**[12:35] ---**
Oh, I remember.
**[12:37] ---**
For that incredibly stupid...
**[12:39] ---**
I mean, for that cheerful letter,
the best thing to do with it...
**[12:42] ---**
...was use it to give everyone a nice laugh.
**[12:44] ---**
Is that all you wanted to say?
**[12:47] ---**
No.
**[12:50] ---**
You're the Kendo team captain, aren't you?
**[12:53] ---**
I want a duel with you today after school!
**[12:56] ---**
Who do you think you are?
**[12:59] ---**
I see... You must be the new challenger.
**[13:03] ---**
The what?
**[13:04] ---**
Very well! I'll meet you behind the school...
**[13:06] ---**
...after classes today, in the dueling arena forest.
**[13:09] ---**
The forest? You mean the
one nobody's allowed into?
**[13:18] ---**
I wonder, I wonder,
do you know what I wonder?
**[13:20] ---**
There'll be another duel today
in the forest behind the school.
**[13:23] ---**
Oh, brave hero!
**[13:25] ---**
Brave hero, who fights for her friend's sake...
**[13:29] ---**
But, be careful, brave hero.
**[13:31] ---**
They follow a Code in the forest.
**[13:33] ---**
I wonder if you know that?
**[13:35] ---**
I wonder, I wonder,
do you know that I wonder?
**[13:49] ---**
Oh, great! How am l supposed to get in here?
**[13:54] ---**
I knew it. You need some sort of a key.
**[14:11] ---**
Cold!
**[14:42] ---**
What's with this entrance?
**[14:47] ---**
Well, I'd say this is an invitation!
**[14:52] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
zettai unmei mokushiroku
**[14:56] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
zettai unmei mokushiroku
**[14:59] ---**
Birth records, baptismal records,
shussei touroku senrei meibo
**[15:06] ---**
records of death. shibou touroku
**[15:09] ---**
A shining place in a desert of darkness.
yami no sabaku ni sanba uba
**[15:16] ---**
A gold-plated Shangri-La.
kin no mekki no tougenkyou
**[15:23] ---**
Day and night turning back on one another.
hiru to yoru to ga gyaku mawari
**[15:30] ---**
A time-plated Paradise Lost.
toki no mekki no shitsu rakuen
**[15:36] ---**
The darkness of Sodom, the darkness of light.
sodomu no yami hikari no yami
**[15:43] ---**
The darkness of distance, the endless darkness.
kanata no yami hatenaki yami
**[15:50] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
zettai unmei mokushiroku
**[15:54] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalyptic darkness.
zettai unmei mokushiyami mokushiroku
**[15:59] ---**
Mokushi kushimo shimoku
kumoshi moshiku shikumo.
**[16:13] ---**
How can a castle float in mid-air...?
**[16:15] ---**
That's right...
**[16:16] ---**
You've never seen the castle before, have you?
**[16:19] ---**
What is that thing?
**[16:21] ---**
I couldn't see it from outside the forest.
**[16:24] ---**
A kind of mirage.
**[16:25] ---**
Think of it as a trick of the light.
**[16:29] ---**
A mirage?
**[16:30] ---**
Never mind that.
**[16:31] ---**
I'm surprised that a person like you...
**[16:33] ---**
...who isn't in the student
council wears the Rose Seal.
**[16:36] ---**
Rose Seal?
**[16:37] ---**
One of these.
**[16:40] ---**
That ring!
**[16:41] ---**
Anthy! Prepare us!
**[16:52] ---**
Anthy Himemiya...
**[17:00] ---**
Himemiya, what are you doing here?
**[17:03] ---**
It's the Bride's place to be here, so she's here.
**[17:07] ---**
Bride?
**[17:10] ---**
This scent...
**[17:16] ---**
It's the same.
**[17:17] ---**
The same rose scent that he had...
**[17:19] ---**
If the rose is knocked off your chest,
you lose the duel.
**[17:24] ---**
Good luck.
**[17:29] ---**
What are you doing?!
**[17:31] ---**
How dare you, Anthy!
**[17:32] ---**
You are the Rose Bride!
**[17:34] ---**
In other words, you're *my* flower!
**[17:36] ---**
What's the meaning of you
wishing good luck to someone else?
**[17:39] ---**
Forgive me, Master Saionji.
**[17:41] ---**
Are you nuts?!
**[17:42] ---**
Why would you take that from this guy?!
**[17:44] ---**
Because Master Saionji is the
current champion Duelist.
**[17:48] ---**
I have to do whatever he wants me to.
**[17:51] ---**
What do you mean?
**[17:53] ---**
You're not his girlfriend?
**[17:55] ---**
Come. Let's begin.
**[18:02] ---**
I don't know what's going on here,
**[18:03] ---**
but I just have to beat him, right?
**[18:15] ---**
Rose of the noble castle.
**[18:24] ---**
Now what? Another "trick of the light"?
**[18:26] ---**
Power of Dios that sleeps within me.
**[18:28] ---**
Heed your master and come forth!
**[18:39] ---**
Grant me the power to
bring the world revolution!
**[18:52] ---**
When? Where? Who? Which?
**[18:58] ---**
When? Where? Who? Which?
**[19:03] ---**
You're pretty good...
**[19:05] ---**
...for a girl!
**[19:07] ---**
So, trying to be the prince who
saves the damsel in distress?
**[19:09] ---**
So, trying to be the prince who
saves the damsel in distress?
*Flowing blood of caged memories.*
**[19:11] ---**
*Flowing blood of caged memories.*
**[19:13] ---**
Well...
*Flowing blood of caged memories.*
**[19:15] ---**
The cradle of 1000 years of bliss.
**[19:19] ---**
Wait a minute...
*The cradle of 1000 years of bliss.*
**[19:21] ---**
That trick sword... Is it real?!
*I am an actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[19:24] ---**
*I am an actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[19:24] ---**
l'm shocked.
*I am an actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[19:26] ---**
You challenge the Sword of Dios
with a useless wooden practice sword?
*I am an actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[19:30] ---**
You challenge the Sword of Dios
with a useless wooden practice sword?
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:31] ---**
The Sword of Dios?
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:33] ---**
You don't know about the Sword of Dios...?
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:35] ---**
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:35] ---**
Who are you?
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:37] ---**
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:37] ---**
Now you've got me interested.
*Just like the sphinx, phinx of the winter desert.*
**[19:39] ---**
Now you've got me interested.
**[19:39] ---**
This duel isn't over yet!
**[19:41] ---**
You know the winds of sadness...
**[19:42] ---**
Quite right. If you wish,
*You know the winds of sadness...*
**[19:44] ---**
I'll cut that rose from your
chest with a single stroke.
*You know the winds of sadness...*
**[19:47] ---**
You had the courage to
come and face me, after all.
*...of the body in both birth and death.*
**[19:53] ---**
The prince on a white horse,
here to save her princess!
*...of the body in both birth and death.*
**[19:53] ---**
The prince on a white horse,
here to save her princess!
*The holy actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[19:56] ---**
*The holy actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[20:00] ---**
Little one, who bears up
alone in such deep sorrow.
*The holy actor, eternally metaphorical.*
**[20:02] ---**
Little one, who bears up
alone in such deep sorrow.
*The dark light that fell into the abyss, marginal.*
**[20:05] ---**
Never lose that strength or nobility,
even when you grow up.
*The dark light that fell into the abyss, marginal.*
**[20:10] ---**
*The dark light that fell into the abyss, marginal.*
**[20:11] ---**
*Brightly burn!*
**[20:11] ---**
What?!
*Brightly burn!*
**[20:12] ---**
*Brightly burn!*
**[20:14] ---**
*Awaken and sing!*
**[20:15] ---**
Fool! *Awaken and sing!*
**[20:17] ---**
*Born into the world! Birth of a moment!*
**[20:22] ---**
*Over and over again!*
**[20:36] ---**
Impossible! I... I lost...?
**[20:45] ---**
Anthy!
**[20:47] ---**
Cheer up, Saionji...
**[20:50] ---**
...my schoolmate.
**[20:56] ---**
Well, an unexpected development.
**[20:57] ---**
I think she's in the Academy's middle school.
**[21:00] ---**
Oh, yes, Baby...
**[21:03] ---**
You've lit the fire to my heart.
**[21:09] ---**
Man, this has been one truly weird day.
**[21:13] ---**
What was all that about?
**[21:16] ---**
Better to just forget about it.
**[21:23] ---**
You...
**[21:24] ---**
I've been waiting for you, Mistress Utena.
**[21:27] ---**
I am the Rose Bride.
**[21:29] ---**
From this day forward, I am your flower.
**[21:42] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[21:46] ---**
Hold me tight with your arms so true.
*dakishimete honto no te de*
**[21:50] ---**
The key to unlock tomorrow is reality.
*ashita wo hiraku kagi wa reality*
**[21:54] ---**
I want to keep on smashing lies apart.
*uso wo kowashi tsuzuketai*
**[22:07] ---**
No matter how much the two of us may talk...
*kore ijou hanashi wo shitemo*
**[22:10] ---**
...you still just can't see anything.
*anata ni wa mienai*
**[22:14] ---**
Excuses are fitting for adults who...
*mukashi no hanashi ni sugaru*
**[22:17] ---**
...just cling to old stories.
*otona ni wa ii wake ga niau*
**[22:23] ---**
The angels who weren't chosen...
*erabarenai tenshitachi ni*
**[22:26] ---**
...don't need wings to fly!
*hane saemo iranai*
**[22:32] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[22:36] ---**
I like who I'll be tomorrow and...
*ashita no jibun ga suki to*
**[22:40] ---**
...I'll believe in myself because I want to believe.
*shinjiteiru no shinjitai kara*
**[22:44] ---**
I want to be hated by lies.
*uso ni kirawareteitai*
**[22:56] ---**
Next Episode
**[22:59] ---**
What, I have to fight a return match
in the dueling arena tomorrow?
**[23:03] ---**
Is it true no one who defies the
student council can stay here?
**[23:08] ---**
Are you sure about this, Mistress Utena?
**[23:09] ---**
You said you wouldn't duel again.
**[23:12] ---**
Well, I'll purposely lose, so it isn't a problem.
**[23:15] ---**
Of course. Do as you please.
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Next time, on Revolutionary Girl Utena,
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"For Whom the Rose Smiles."
**[23:20] ---**
For Whom the Rose Smiles
**[23:22] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.
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