Revolutionary Girl Utena - Season 1 Episode 9 The Castle Said to Hold Eternity
In the Kendo Dojo, Saionji and Touga are fighting a Kendo duel. Touga defeats Saionji by a narrow margin. Utena hears from Saionji that they has fought hundreds of duels in the last ten years. Saionji also tells Utena that he wants to win the duels and take Anthy to the midair castle above the Arena. A memory crosses his mind about that raining day when he was a young boy... One day, he receives a letter from the Ends of the World, in which they say the castle will fall down to the Arena today. On the other hand, Utena gets a phone call from someone and he says Anthy is being kidnapped at the Forest of the Arena.
Year: 1997
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Country: Japan
Studio: TV Tokyo
Director:
Cast: Tomoko Kawakami, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Takehito Koyasu, Takeshi Kusao, Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa
Crew: Shinkichi Mitsumune (Original Music Composer), Kunihiko Ikuhara (Series Director), Shichiro Kobayashi (Art Direction), Shinya Hasegawa (Character Designer), Kunihiko Ikuhara (Original Story), Chiho Saitō (Original Story)
First Air Date: Apr 02, 1997
Last Air date: Dec 24, 1997
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 39 Episode
Runtime: 24 minutes
IMDb: 8.50/10 by 51.00 users
Popularity: 35.701
Language: Japanese
Keyword : sibling relationship, sexual identity, adolescence, swordplay, symbolism, role reversal, surrealism, role playing, metaphysics, coming of age, girl heroine, cross dressing, orphan, subversive tale, incest, gender roles, girl on girl, teenage sexuality, lgbt, female hero, white castle, roses, dual role, teenage rebellion, cross dresser, sword duel, genre bending, phallic symbol, shoujo, shoujo-ai, anime, gender identity, yuri, psychological, girls love, magical girl
Season
Season 1
Episode
The Rose Bride
For Whom the Rose Smiles
On the Night of the Ball
The Sunlit Garden - Prelude
The Sunlit Garden - Finale
Take Care, Miss Nanami!
Unfulfilled Juri
Curried High Trip
The Castle Said to Hold Eternity
Nanami's Precious Thing
Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower
For Friendship, Perhaps
Tracing a Path
The Boys of the Black Rose
The Landscape Framed by Kozue
The Cowbell of Happiness
The Thorns of Death
Mitsuru's Impatience
A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost
Wakaba Flourishing
Vermin
Nemuro Memorial Hall
The Terms of a Duelist
The Secret Nanami Diary
Their Eternal Apocalypse
Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden - Arranged)
Nanami's Egg
Whispers in the Dark
Azure Paler Than the Sky
The Barefoot Girl
Her Tragedy
The Romance of the Dancing Girls
The Prince Who Runs Through the Night
The Rose Crest
The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime
And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night
The One to Revolutionize the World
End of the World
And Someday, Together, We'll Shine