Shoujo Kakumei Utena P.83-135 P.83 (title page) P.84 (the lovely Ohtori Academy) P.85 (A basketball match is in progress. One hand reaches above the others to grab a rebound.) Utena: I P.86 Utena: want to be Utena: a "prince". (still in flight, she pushes the ball into the net) Utena: Hah! Utena: Instead of the protected "princess" Utena: I prefer the "prince". Utena: I win. P.87 girls: [Utena-samaa!] girls: You're so wonderful! girls: Wow, sempai, is your basketball match with the boys over? Utena: Yep. girls: Ahh, it's a shame Utena-sama's a girl. girls: She's amazing in sports and really nice. girls: Even though the teachers get on her case, she still walks around in that pink boys' style uniform. girls: She's the hero of the junior high. (the boys watch the scene in irritation) boy: Man. (Utena runs through the campus, passing by a boy and girl) girl: [there goes Utena] Utena: It's been a half a year Utena: since I left the outside world and came to live in this all-boarding school. P.88 Utena: All in order to find that which is most important to me. Utena: ... Huh? Utena: I've lost my way. This campus is so large that it's easy to get lost. Utena: Hmm... sign: (written) Ohtori Academy student council's private rose garden Utena: "Student council's private"? Utena: They really give the student council special treatment here. Utena: It's kinda strange... P.89 Utena: There are people in there. (within the building of the rose garden, a long-haired boy and a dark-skinned, short-haired girl are talking, as the girl waters the roses) Utena: Maybe I could ask them... Utena: ! (the boy knocks the watering can out of the girl's hands roughly) Utena: What's going on between those two?? It started so suddenly... (the boy raises his hand to hit the girl again) Utena: Hey... (but someone else grabs his wrist) P.90 (another long-haired boy holds the first boy's arm back) Utena: [phew] Utena: Thank goodness someone was there to stop him... (a female student with a high ponytail runs up to Utena from behind) girl: U-te-na! P.91 (the ponytailed girl jumps on Utena's back) girl: Guess what?! I checked the new schedule and we get to be in the same class again! Utena: Wakaba... You're kinda heavy. Wakaba: Whatcha looking at? Ah... Wakaba: 11th grader Saionji-sama... Utena: Saionji? Is he the one with the wavy hair? The one with straight hair is the student council president, right? Uteba: What was his name again? Kiryuu... Touga, I think. Wakaba: C'mon, Utena! Wakaba: You know the student council president but you don't know the vice-president and captain of the kendo club, Saionji-sama? P.92 Utena: What do you expect? I only transferred here half a year ago. Utena: Who's the girl? Wakaba: Oh her. Wakaba: Himemiya Anthy. Utena: Himemiya... Wakaba: She's part of the elite group of the student council, but she's a brainless, depressing girl who can't do anything but tend the roses. Wakaba: I think she's going to be in our class too. Utena: Are she and Saionji going out? Wakaba: As if! Wakaba: Unlike Kiryuu the playboy, Saionji-sama is a very serious young man. Wakaba: He would never be interested in a girl like that! Wakaba: The only reason they're together is because they're both part of student council! Wakaba: {haa haa} Utena: ...... P.93 Utena: Hm, is he your type or something? (Wakaba slaps Utena on the back, then gloms onto her) Wakaba: Oh my! You're jealous, aren't you?? Don't worry! I'm all yours! (nearby students stare at the display) spectator: [waa, lesbians] Utena: [ok, ok] Utena: [ok already] Wakaba: It's true, it's true, it's the truth! (the scene changes to a formidable-looking building) sign: (written) student council meeting room voice: I called this sudden meeting. P.94 voice: Juri. voice: Miki. (the speaker is shown to be student council president, Kiryuu Touga) Touga: I would like you both to be present as witnesses. P.95 Touga: Saionji Kyouichi and your bride, please come forward. Touga: Saionji! We of the student council were chosen as members according to the rules of "the rose seal". Touga: Your rough treatment of Himemiya lately is in defiance of those rules. Saionji: Not at all. She's my bride. How I treat her is my business. Touga: You're wrong! P.96 Touga: The rules of "the rose seal" are the will of "the end of the world". Miki: We are given the chance to be duelists by "the end of the world". Juri: Don't overstep your bounds, Saionji! P.97 Saionji: Hmph, all that has nothing to do with this. Touga: Saionji... Anthy: I... I am Saionji-sama's possession now, so... Anthy: his will is my duty. (Anthy bows to the council members) Touga: ...! Saionji: Well, you see how it is. Saionji: We'll be going now. (he escorts Anthy out of the room) Miki: Are we going to allow him to just do what he wants to her...? P.98 Touga: In accordance to the rules, Touga: he'll have that freedom only until someone defeats him in the next duel. Touga: We have no choice but to close our eyes to it until then. (elsewhere, Utena is lying on the grass and looking up at the ring on her left hand) Utena: The rose seal ring looks so much like the Ohtori school crest... Utena: The ring I received as a young girl... from my first love. P.99 Utena: I don't remember his face or know his name... Utena: but he carried the scent of white roses. Utena: I haven't forgotten that fragrance... (Utena closes her eyes) Utena: I came this far, searching for him... (Wakaba's face appears next to Utena's) Wakaba: Heehee. (Wakaba lies on Utena's back) Wakaba: Ah, Utena, even your sleeping face is wonderful. Utena: [heavy] Wakaba: Hey, what's that? Wakaba: What a pretty ring! Wakaba: Where did you get it from? Ooh, from a guy maybe...? Utena: ... "This ring will lead you to me". P.100 Utena: The one who told me that was the prince on a white horse who gave this to... (there's an embarrassed moment of silence) Wakaba: [kyaaa! hahaha! wahaha!] Utena: ...... Utena: [hmph] Utena: (to herself) [it's ok, it's ok] Wakaba: Ahh, my stomach hurts from laughing! (she notices a group of students crowding around a billboard) Wakaba: Eh? I wonder what's causing all the excitement. student: Someone's love letter has been posted up. P.101 Utena: Love letter?! student: Let's see... "And I danced with you in my dreams, Saionji-san. I guess you must think I'm a fool. Then you smiled at me kindly..." students: [hahahaha] boy: [hilarious] Wakaba: So mean... (Utena storms over to the billboard and rips the letter off) Utena: This is in poor taste! Wakaba: Utena... P.102 student1: B-b-but. (turning to the guy next to him) Right? student2: If something's posted it's only natural to read it. Utena: You shouldn't have read it! (Wakaba runs off with tears welling up in her eyes) Utena: Wakaba...?! (Utena approaches Wakaba, who's standing by a tree with her face in her hands) Utena: Could this letter have been... from you, Wakaba? Utena: To that Saionji Kyouichi guy...? (Wakaba only cries into her hands in response) P.103 Utena: I absolutely won't forgive him...!! Utena: That jerk! (kendo hall) Saionji: I don't know anything about it. Saionji: It wasn't me anyway. Saionji: Most likely some random person found the letter in the garbage and posted it up on their own. (Utena stands nearby, with her hands on her hips, as Saionji practices his swordsmanship) P.104 Utena: At least you could've thrown it out somewhere where people wouldn't see it! Saionji: Isn't it my business how I dispose of my own letters? Saionji: Besides it was probably good for it to be posted up like that. Saionji: For such a stupid... cheerful letter as that, the best thing to do with it is to use it to provide some entertainment for people! Saionji: Hah...! (Saionji swings his sword down, but it's caught midway by Utena) P.105 Saionji: What do you want? Utena: A duel, after school today. (he notices her ring) Saionji: Hnn... So you're the next challenger...? (Saionji laughs to himself) Utena: Are you going to do it or not? Saionji: Fine. Saionji: We'll meet after school at the forest dueling grounds. Utena: The forest dueling grounds? P.106 (Utena stands before a huge door) Utena: I had heard that this forest was off-limits... Utena: Anyway this seems like the only entrance... (she tries to pull the door handles) Utena: I figured it would be locked. Utena: ! (the door encloses around her hands on the handles) Utena: What the...? Utena: I can't remove my hands! P.107 (after a moment, the door releases Utena's hands and opens automatically) Utena: ! P.108 Utena: Why did it suddenly open? Utena: There's a rose crest on this door. Utena: Could it have been the rose ring then? Utena: What kind of mechanism is that...? Utena: I guess I better enter, regardless. (she finds herself trudging through heavy brush) Utena: Uwa... It's all bushes and fog... Utena: Where on earth are the dueling grounds......? P.109 (suddenly, Utena sees a clearing and a stairway before her) Utena: ...! Utena: At the top of these stairs......? (she ascends) Utena: What Utena: is this...? P.110-111 (Utena stands before an elevated, circular platform with an upside-down castle floating above it) P.112 Utena: A castle...? Utena: In the middle of the air...? Saionji: I take it this is the first time you've seen the castle. Utena: What is it...? Saionji: A sort of projection. I guess you could call it a type of magic trick. Utena: Projection...? Utena: Magic trick? Saionji: Do you happen to know if there are a lot of non-council members who bear "the rose seal", as you do? Utena: "The rose seal"? P.113 Saionji: This. (he displays the rose signet ring on his hand) Utena: ... The ring?! Saionji: Anthy! Make the preparations! (Anthy emerges, dressed in crown and gown, bearing two roses) Utena: That girl-- (Anthy places the red rose on Saionji's chest and the white rose on Utena's chest) Anthy: If the rose at your breast is knocked off, you lose the duel. Utena: Wait a sec.. Utena: Eh...? This scent.... P.114 Utena: It's the same... Utena: The same as his rose fragrance. Anthy: Good luck. (Saionji walks over and swats Anthy across the face) Utena: ! P.115 Utena: What are you doing?! Saionji: (to Anthy) Don't play around! What's the meaning in saying "good luck" to someone else besides myself?! Anthy: ... Forgive me, Saionji-sama. Utena: (to Anthy) Hey, are you stupid? When he treats you that way, why do you...? Anthy: ...... Saionji-sama is the current dueling champion. He has the right to do with me as he wishes. Utena: What do you mean?? Utena: He's not your boyfriend?! Saionji: Shall we begin? P.116 Utena: I have no idea what's going on here. Utena: But all I have to do is win, right? Utena: Magic tricks, rituals, and this costume of hers. Anthy: ... Sword of the rose, the power of Dios that sleeps within me... Utena: These student council members are seriously weird. Anthy: Heed your master, and come forth...! P.117 (a sword emerges from Anthy's breast) Utena: Huh...? Another magic trick...? (Saionji pulls out the sword) Saionji: Grant me the power to bring revolution to the world! P.118 Utena: ! Utena: En guarde...! (Utena attacks with her bamboo kendo sword) P.119 Utena: Hah! Saionji: You're... not too bad. Saionji: For a girl. Saionji: Are you trying to be the prince who saves the poor princess? Utena: Don't be so arrog...! (Saionji slices through the bamboo sword with his metal one) P.120 Utena: Don't tell me... that trick sword is the real thing...? Saionji: I should be asking you... what did you hope to accomplish by challenging "the sword of Dios" with an ordinary bamboo sword? Utena: "Dios"...? Utena: What's that? P.121 Utena: Seriously... Utena: these Ohtori Academy student council members Utena: are very... bizarre. Utena: What is all this weirdness?! P.122 Utena: Why do I have to be caught up in this strange business?! P.123 Utena: With this broken bamboo sword, Utena: I'm stuck fighting the vice-president of student council and his real sword, Utena: over this girl Himemiya Anthy. Utena: And then there's... Utena: the projected castle... P.124 Saionji: You don't even know about the sword of Dios, even though you're a duelist? Utena: I don't understand any of this... Utena: I'm just... doing this for my friend Wakaba... Anthy: Saionji-sama! Anthy: This person really doesn't seem to know any...thing. Saionji: Silence! (Saionji hits Anthy agaiin) Saionji: Property... shouldn't talk so much! P.125 Utena: This bastard. Utena: How dare you think of a girl as property! Utena: You lose if I hit the rose on your chest, right? The match isn't over yet! Saionji: Hn... You're going to take me on with that? (Utena looks at her broken sword) Utena: Uh... Utena: Well... Saionji: If you insist, I'll redden the rose at your chest with one thrust. P.126 Saionji: If you have the courage, prince on a white horse, then come save your princess! (Utena touches the rose on her chest) Utena: My prince, had this scent Utena: when he saved my life Utena: and wiped away my tears with his lips. P.127 Utena: "Little one who endures such sorrow, Utena: if you do not lose that strength or nobility Utena: this ring will lead you to me someday". Utena: Whether man or woman, Utena: as long as a person does not lose their strength or nobility Utena: they can be called a "prince". P.128 Saionji: You're going to continue? (Touga arrives at the top of the stairs to watch the duel) Saionji: You can't be serious... With that thing...? P.129 (Utena charges) Saionji: If you're serious... Saionji: then I will be too...! Saionji: Hahh! (Anthy hides her face in her hands) P.130 (Utena somehow manages to strike Saionji's rose with her dinky stub of bamboo) Utena: Your rose Utena: is mine...! P.131 (the sword of Dios goes flying up into the air) Saionji: The sword of Dios...! (Utena reaches up) P.132 (and catches it) Utena: It's almost as if, it was drawn to my hand Saionji: ! Saionji: It... can't be. P.133 (the figure of a prince appears behind Utena) Saionji: ... What is that...? Anthy: ... Dios!! P.134 Utena: Ah... Utena: The scent of the white rose... Utena: Something is enfolding me... Utena: Something is causing me to move... Utena: The rose fragrance P.135 Utena: is exploding. Utena: Haa! (Utena raises the sword up, and a beam of light extends between her and the castle)