On the 23rd of September 2024, @dontbe-lasanya and I began a project to retranslate the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. The project finished on the 7th of August 2025. The goals behind the project were to provide more natural dialogue between characters, do a better job of conveying the themes, and provide a nonbinary perspective on Utena the character, and I believe we achieved them!
To summarise my translation approach in one sentence, I would say I focus on rewriting the script as though it were originally written in the target language. This means, for example, never using honorifics like “sama” or “senpai” in the English translation and instead making up for it by using ways of indicating relationships and hierarchy in English such as changing the way characters speak around each other.
Haru Dipthong's Utena Fansub - Google Drive
Translation Notes
- Episode 1 - The Rose Bride
- Episode 2 - For Whom The Rose Smiles
- Episode 3 - On The Night Of The Ball
- Episode 4 - The Sunlit Garden Prelude
- Episode 5 - The Sunlit Garden Finale
- Episode 6 - Take Care, Miss Nanami
- Episode 7 - Unfulfilled Juri
- Episode 8 - Curried High Trip
- Episode 9 - The Castle Said To Hold Eternity
- Episode 10 - Nanami’s Precious One
- Episode 11 - Graceful And Ruthless; The One Who Picks The Flower
- Episode 12 - For Friendship, Perhaps
- Episode 13 - Tracing a Path
- Episode 14 - The Boys Of The Black Rose
- Episode 15 - The Landscape Framed By Kozue
- Episode 16 - The Almglocken Of Happiness
- Episode 17 - Thorns Of Death
- Episode 18 - Mitsuru’s Growing Pains
- Episode 19 - The Song Of The Fallen Kingdom
- Episode 20 - Wakaba Flourishing
- Episode 21 - Nasty Pests
- Episode 22 - Nemuro Memorial Hall
- Episode 23 - What Makes A Duellist
- Episode 24 - The Secret Nanami Diary
- Episode 25 - Eternal Apocalypse For Two
- Episode 26 - Miki’s Birdhouse (The Sunlit Garden, Arrangement)
- Episode 27 - Nanami’s Egg
- Episode 28 - Whispers In The Dark
- Episode 29 - Azure Paler Than The Sky
- Episode 30 - The Barefoot Girl
- Episode 31 - Her Tragedy
- Episode 32 - The Romance Of The Dancing Girls
- Episode 33 - The Prince Who Runs Through The Night
- Episode 34 - The Rose Signet
- Episode 35 - The Love That Blossomed In Wintertime
- Episode 36 - And The Doors Of Night Open
- Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionise The World
- Episode 38 - The End Of The World
- Episode 39 - Someday, Let’s Shine Together
