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Let's live heroically, let's live with style. isagiyoku kakko yoku ikite yukou

Even if the two of us are torn apart... tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo

...take my revolution.

Revolutionary Girl Utena ...take my revolution.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands. hikarisasu garden te wo toriai

Drawing close for comfort, we both swore... chikai atta nagusame atta

...never again would we ever fall in love. mou koi wa ni do to shinai yotte

I see that photo of us standing cheek to cheek... hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shashin no

...and place a bit of my loneliness in our smiles. egao ni sukoshi no samishisa tsumekonde

Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt... yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuitemo

...reality keeps on coming recklessly. genjitsu wa gamushara ni kuru shi

I wanna find my own place, the value of being... jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai

...the person I've been until now... kyou made no jibun wo

Let's find the strength to throw it all away. isagiyoku nugisuteru

Strip down to nothing at all. hadaka ni naru

Become like rose petals, blowing free! jiyuu wo mau bara no you ni

Even if the two of us are torn apart... tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo

...I swear that I will change the world. watashi wa sekai wo kaeru

Even deep underground, where the sun cannot reach...

...this rose still blooms nicely.

It's because my black rose absorbs darkness itself.

You know, Souiji...

I've heard that Touga Kiryuu, the student council president...

...has been absent all this time.

That's why the academy has been so quiet lately-

And that's good.

A proper school should be a place of peaceful study.

The Boys of the Black Rose

Well then, I'll see you later.

I'm home, Chu-Chul!

We turned our Saturday class into a real party today.

I wish your master could've been there, too.

She really needs to work on her social skills.

Hi, Himemiya. I'm home.

Huh?

She's not here...

Those are left-overs from the party.

Ahh... I'm beat.

Come to think of it,

I don't usually see Himemiya around on Saturday nights...

Hey, Chu-Chu, do you know anything about that?

Oh! Mistress Utena.

Welcome back! Where were you?

At school.

Oh.

By the way, you seem to disappear at night on the weekends.

Is something up?

Yes. There's someone I have to visit once a week.

Who's that?

My brother.

You have a brother?!

Excuse us!

Oops. Wrong floor.

No, this is it.

So, this is the chairman's house?

Must be hell keeping it clean!

Pretty huge.

Is this your "big brother"?

Oh, no. That's a planetarium projector.

Mistress Utena?

H-Himemiya, we shouldn't be here!

Those two are having a private party!

Let's go home before we interrupt things!

How do you do?

I'm Akio Ohtori.

Excuse me! I'm Utena Tenjou!

Sorry about this...

No, no. It's my pleasure to meet you.

This is the first time I've gotten to meet one of my sister's friends, so I'm very happy.

I never realized Himemiya's brother was the school's chairman-

Oh, not at all! I'm just the acting chairman.

The real chairman is Kanae's father.

Father is very fond of Akio...

...and we plan to be married as soon as I graduate from high school.

Well then, congratulations.

I keep telling her it's too soon to be talking about that, but...

I didn't know they'd fixed the chairman's house up like this.

The truth is that I have a certain fondness for star-gazing.

You like stars, huh?

It's almost an obsession.

Some people say he got himself adopted into my family...

...just to get at these facilities!

He slept here again last night, too.

I love the stars.

When I peer through the telescope at those familiar lights they seem to...

...reveal their true faces, known only to me.

Just occasionally think about me, too, all right?

If I find a comet, I'll name it after you.

Honestly! The boy's hopeless.

I haven't been here long, but I do know one thing...

The students here are all free, all have a love of learning...

...and most of all, they never fight.

Correct?

It'd be nice if it were always that way...

Nothing bad ever happens at Ohtori Academy.

Well, Miss Kanae, I'll see you later.

Please, won't you start calling me "Sister," now?

It won't be long until I really am your sister, okay?

Sure.

Thank you, Mr. Mikage!

Your paper did the trick!

Our office was chosen for the consulting position.

Not my paper, Professor.

Surely you meant your paper, right?

Hey! Hurry up with the gift!

My wife went to a hot spring resort yesterday.

She said she wanted you to have this.

Come on!

Sorry for beating around the bush.

At the very least, I'd like you to have this.

There's no need for any rewards.

Besides, I'm sure I'll ask a favor from you in return some day.

Until then, Professors...

If there's anything we can do for you, we'll be happy to help!

The great charismatic high-school sponsor of the Mikage seminar!

What presence he has! He sends shivers down my spine!

The Mikage Seminar, also known as the Circle of the Black Rose.

Those rumors that even...

...high-level career bureaucrats are members may be true.

Well, we owe him now,

so even college professors like us can't pry into his business.

Souji Mikage, the genius high-school student...

Oh, yes.

Have you thought over my proposal?

Y-Yes...

I hoped you would. And...?

I appreciate the offer, but...

...I just don't think I'm worthy of joining your seminar, Mr. Mikage.

I see.

A great mind such as yours would have made a fine addition, but...

So, that's your answer...

In that case, I have no choice.

Tell me if you change your mind. You won't regret it.

Thank you very much. See you.

Mistress Utena, thank you so much.

Huh? For what?

For not telling my brother about my secret.

Oh, that.

I don't want to be the cause of any concern to him...

...about me being the Rose Bride and the Duelist's Code...

I understand.

We shouldn't tell your brother about our secrets.

Kanae seems like a nice girl, and I'd hate to get her mixed up in this.

Let's go home.

Oh? Miss Tenjou! Miss Himemiya!

Mickey!

Hello there. Mickey!

Hello there.

Didn't you take the day off?

We went to visit Himemiya's big brother.

Oh, I see.

You were with the chairman.

What are you up to, Mickey?

Well, there's something I wanted to check on in the reference room.

Wow...

You like to study even on your days off, huh?

I didn't even know this place existed!

You don't know about Nemuro Memorial Hall?!

This building has a history!

A history?

Apparently, a long time ago, 100 boys were buried alive in here!

You know, Mamiya...

I believe you deserve to be the Rose Bride.

Surely you mean Rose Groom.

I'm a boy.

Bride suits you much more.

I will make you the true Rose Bride.

Then we will gain the power of Dios...

...and make his eternal secrets ours.

If you say so, Souiji.

Don't worry. Even End of the World recognizes our potential.

But, for this to work...

...we must defeat Utena Tenjou, take Anthy Himemiya...

...and then kill her.

Yes...

For that, we need strong Duelists.

Excuse me.

I have an interview scheduled for today.

Interviewees, please fill out a record form.

Nemuro Hall Interview Record Name: Kanae Ohtori Age: 18 Sex: Female

Interview Room

IN USE

High school section, senior, class A.

Kanae Ohtori.

All right, please begin.

Next spring, as soon as I graduate...

...I plan on getting married.

It will be to the man my father, the chairman, has selected for me.

He's... He's very kind...

Childlike in some ways,

and yet really so much more mature than I am.

He watches over me very warmly.

I want to do something... Anything for him.

I feel that way from the bottom of my heart.

Except... Except...

Deeper... Go deeper...

Except...

Except, he has a younger sister.

And no matter what I do, she still doesn't like me!

Something happened once.

I offered her one of my favorite scarves to wear.

She simply said "Thank you" and then wiped her glasses with it!

I was so shocked...

...and told her it wasn't for wiping glasses with!

Then, without a word...

...she just turned to me and smiled!

And when I saw her eyes, I shivered.

Because they were cold, alien!

Father... I think he fell ill...

...because that awful girl's been visiting us regularly.

I just...

I just don't have the confidence to face her terrible smile anymore!

I've tried so hard to make her like me!

But it's no use!

No matter what I try... No matter what I do...

...IT'S NO USE!!!

I understand.

Your only choice is to revolutionize the world.

The path you must take has been prepared for you.

What is this place?

Hallowed ground.

A holy place where one-hundred Duelists now sleep.

This room leads to the End of the World.

School ID number D-13!

Please look.

This is a Rose Seal...

You see? This one has turned black.

When its bearer dies, the color changes in this way.

Although I find the black one to be even lovelier...

You can't escape.

You have been chosen...

...by my black rose.

This is your new heart...

Your new life!

I give this rose that blooms at the End of the World...

...to you!

For you, the Black Rose Seal...

Doesn't anything interesting ever happen around here?

What about the party on Saturday?!

Oh, I don't mean that. What about the party on Saturday?!

Oh, I don't mean that.

You know, something more exciting!

Our school's way too quiet!

Can't something really surprising happen to shake things up?

To the Engaged: I will be waiting in the Dueling Arena at sunset. Can't something really surprising happen to shake things up?

To the Engaged: I will be waiting in the Dueling Arena at sunset.

Extra! Extra! Extra!

At last! At last! At last!

At last, what I feared has come!

Isn't it early for her?

Well, she IS very grown-up!

Okay, say "Ahh!"

Well, what shall we do about this wisdom tooth?

Ooh...! What should I do?!

Pull it out?

The absolute destiny apocalypse. zettai unmei mokushiroku

The absolute destiny apocalypse. zettai unmei mokushiroku

Birth records, baptismal records, shussei touroku senrei meibo

records of death. shibou touroku

The absolute destiny apocalypse. zettai unmei mokushiroku

The absolute destiny apocalypse. zettai unmei mokushiroku

My own birth, absolute birth. Apocalypse. watashi no tanjou zettai tanjou mokushiroku

A shining place in a desert of darkness. yami no sabaku ni sanba uba

A gold-plated Shangri-La. kin no mekki no tougenkyou

Day and night turning back on one another. hiru to yoru to ga gyaku mawari

A time-plated Paradise Lost. toki no mekki no shitsu rakuen

The darkness of Sodom, the darkness of light. sodomu no yami hikari no yami

The darkness of distance, the endless darkness. kanata no yami hatenaki yami

The absolute destiny apocalypse. zettai unmei mokushiroku

The absolute destiny apocalyptic darkness. zettai unmei mokushiyami mokushiroku

Mokushi kushimo shimoku kumoshi moshiku shikumo.

What the...?

W... What's...?

Who are you?!

Upon the Black Rose, I swear...

...I shall win this duel...

...and kill the Rose Bride!

Kana... Kanae...?

But why...?!

Kanae isn't the same as we remember her.

This is the real me.

The other me I buried within myself.

So long as this black rose exists,

I won't play at being that phony "me"!

That black rose is doing it...?

Now, Utena Tenjou!

Draw your sword!

Do it, or else I'll take the Rose Bride!

There are good spirits and there are bad spirits.

Aah! Even if the fragrance of heaven is brought here.

In the depths of hell there is good and evil, too!

Grant me the power to bring the world revolution! In the depths of hell there is good and evil, too!

Grant me the power to bring the world revolution! Aah! Even if the salt of hell is carried here.

Aah! Even if the salt of hell is carried here.

Since the forms cloaked in doubt are coming,

speak profoundly.

How disappointing...

Put some effort into it!

Kanae, what you said before...

About swearing on the black rose to win the duel...

About swearing on the black rose to win the duel... Though it's false, like the brilliant moon...

...to kill the Rose Bride! Though it's false, like the brilliant moon...

Though it's false, like the brilliant moon...

...I wish to keep my treasure close.

Okay... I see now. ...I wish to keep my treasure close.

...I wish to keep my treasure close.

Then I'll show no mercy! ...I wish to keep my treasure close.

...I wish to keep my treasure close.

What?! A wonder beyond man's knowledge.

A wonder beyond man's knowledge.

People of the world, so small, feel fear.

That form is the field of battle.

So that Duelist was Utena Tenjou, eh?

I see. No wonder End of the World places such hope in her.

Creating makeshift Duelists by freezing their hearts...

...won't be enough to defeat her.

See you, Mistress Utena.

Mistress Utena?

I'm going out, so...

Oh, today's when you visit your brother, huh?

See you later.

Oh, uh, Himemiya?

Is Kanae okay after what happened?

Yes, she's just fine now.

That's a relief.

But she still doesn't remember anything about it?

Right. Nothing that led up to the duel.

I see... So, I guess we can't ask her the reason for it, huh?

Anyway, I'm really sorry...

...for hurting someone who's going to be your sister.

You shouldn't trouble yourself over that.

It wasn't your fault, Mistress Utena.

Thanks. Sorry for holding you up.

Say hi to your brother for me.

Sure.

Huh?

Chu-Chu, you're still here?

Aren't you going with her?

Come here, Anthy...

It's been a week. Did you miss me?

Yes, Big Brother.

Missing truth and forever, kissing love and true your heart.

Hold me tight with your arms so true. dakishimete honto no te de

The key to unlock tomorrow is reality. ashita wo hiraku kagi wa reality

I want to keep on smashing lies apart. uso wo kowashi tsuzuketai

No matter how much the two of us may talk... kore ijou hanashi wo shitemo

...you still just can't see anything. anata ni wa mienai

Excuses are fitting for adults who... mukashi no hanashi ni sugaru

...just cling to old stories. otona ni wa ii wake ga niau

The angels who weren't chosen... erabarenai tenshitachi ni

...don't need wings to fly! hane saemo iranai

Missing truth and forever, kissing love and true your heart.

I like who I'll be tomorrow and... ashita no jibun ga suki to

...I'll believe in myself because I want to believe. shinjiteiru no shinjitai kara

I want to be hated by lies. uso ni kirawareteitai

Next Episode

Mickey has a sister named Kozue Kaoru.

Wow, they look alike! They really are twins!

I wish I had a brother or sister.

I'm an only-child, so I'm kinda jealous.

Yes, it is nice to have a big brother. I'm an only-child, so I'm kinda jealous.

Yes, it is nice to have a big brother.

But I'm worried about these Duelists with the black roses.

Someone seems to be manipulating their hearts.

Kozue! What are you doing in that outfit?!

They got you, too?!

Next time, on Revolutionary Girl Utena,

"The Landscape Framed by Kozue."

The Landscape Framed by Kozue "The Landscape Framed by Kozue."

The Landscape Framed by Kozue The absolute destiny apocalypse.