SHOUJO KAKUMEI UTENA ENGLISH SCRIPT EPISODE 13: "PLOTTING A LOCUS"

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OP         Heroically, with bravery
OP         I'll go on with my life,
OP         just a long, long time.
OP         But if the two of us should get split up
OP         by whatever means,
OP         let go of me,
OP         Take my revolution.
Title      Utena ~ La Fillette Revolutionnaire
OP         In the sunny garden, we held each other's hands,
OP         drew close together and soothed each other with the
	   words,
OP         "Neither of us will ever fall in love again."
OP         Everytime
OP         Into this photograph of us
OP         smiling cheek to cheek,
OP         I took a bit of loneliness,
OP         and crammed it inside.
OP         Revolution!
OP         Even in my dreams, even through my tears,
OP         even though I'm being hurt,
OP         reality is approaching now, frantically.
OP         What I want now is to find out
OP         just where I belong,
OP         and my self-worth, up through today.
OP         Heroically, I'll throw away
OP         my clothes 'til I'm nude,
OP         like the roses dancing all around me, whirling
	   free.
OP         But if the two of us should get split up
OP         by whatever means,
OP         I swear to you, I will change the world.



Narrator   Once upon a time...
Narrator   ...there was a princess grieving over the deaths of
	   her mother and father.
Narrator   Before this princess appeared a prince traveling
	   upon a white horse.
Narrator   His appearance gallant, and his smile gentle, the
	   prince enveloped the princess
Narrator   in the scent of roses and wiped away her tears.
Prince     "Little one bearing up alone under grief,
Prince     please lose not thy strength and nobility when thou
	   growest up."
Prince     "As a token of this day, please retain this."
Princess   "Pray, shall we meet once more?"
Prince     "This ring should guide thee to me."
Narrator   Was the ring from the prince meant as an engagement
	   ring?
Narrator   That part was good,
Narrator   but because of the strength of her admiration for
	   the prince,
Narrator   the princess made up her mind to become a prince
	   herself!
Narrator   But is that really good for her?
title      Plotting a Locus
A-ko       I wonder, I wonder... do you know what I wonder?
B-ko       I heard that meddlesome brave warrior won yet
	   another duel.
A-ko       Might is right!
B-ko       And losers are bottomfeeders.
A-ko&B-ko  ...and when she walks, she is as the lily.
A-ko       But dear brave warrior...
B-ko       Hey, you, no more sidetracking!
A-ko&B-ko  I wonder, I wonder... Do you know what I wonder?
Touga      If the world's shell does not break, we will die
	   without being born.
Touga      If the world's shell does not break, we will die
	   without being born.
Touga      If the world's shell does not break, we will die
	   without being born.
Touga      If the world's shell does not break, we will die
	   without being born.
Touga      If the world's shell does not break...
Akio       You still haven't woken yet?
Akio       Still here, unable to break the egg's shell?
Akio       And even the Student Council President was
	   defeated.
Akio       In the end, she won her seventh trial, the Duel
	   called "Self."
Akio       The sight of her being injured while protecting the
	   Rose Bride...
Akio       ...brought back some nostalgic memory.
Akio       I think even the Rose Bride was moved.
Akio       And now, it seems you're building your hopes on
	   her.
Akio       No, that's not it.
Akio       It was her first Duel, the one called "Friendship."
Akio       Ever since that day, that moment when she happened
	   to fight the captain of the Kendo Club,
Akio       you've been pinning your hopes on her.
Utena      You're the captain of the Kendo Club, right?
Utena      You've got a duel with me today after school!
WWWW        When     Where     Who     Which
WWWW        When     Where     Who     Which
Saionji    ...the power to revolutionize the world!
WWWW       Flow of blood from the cage of my memory,
WWWW       In the cradle of a thousand years of bliss.
Saionji    You're pretty good... for a girl.
WWWW       And I, an actor cast eternally
Saionji    So you want to be the prince who saves the helpless
	   princess?
Saionji    Unfortunately...
WWWW       as the Sphinx in the desert winter.
Utena      Oh, no...
Utena      That magical sword... is real?
WWWW       Now you know the sadness
Saionji    Really now, challenging the Sword of Dios with a
	   simple bamboo practice sword?
Utena      Sword of Dios?
WWWW       of the stillborn flesh.
Saionji    You don't know about the Sword of Dios? Who are
	   you?
Saionji    You, a prince on a white horse out to save a
	   princess?
WWWW       And I, a holy actor, cast eternally
Prince     "Little one bearing up alone under grief,
WWWW       as a dark shining Margineaux, cast into Hell.
Prince     please lose not thy strength and nobility when thou
	   growest up."
WWWW       Glow!
Saionji    What!?
WWWW       Burn!
WWWW       Cool down,
WWWW       and sing!
Saionji    Stupid bitch!
WWWW       Born in this world,
WWWW       born in an instant,
WWWW       born all over again.
Saionji    It can't be...
Saionji    I've... lost?
Saionji    Anthy...
Anthy      Take it easy, Saionji...sempai.
Utena      Ahh.. That was really weird, whatever happened back
	   there.
Utena      What was all that, anyway?
Utena      Oh well, better just forget about it!
Utena      Huh? You...
Anthy      I've been waiting for you, Utena-sama.
Anthy      I am the Rose Bride, and from today on, I am your
	   flower.
Akio       As you expected...
Akio       she got engaged to the Rose Bride, and began to
	   walk the Duelist's Path.
Akio       And then, she faced her second trial, the Duel
	   called "Choice."
Anthy      It is the Rose Signet.
Anthy      Anyone who has that ring is entitled to participate
	   in the Duels.
Anthy      So, since you are the current champion,
Anthy      one by one, you will be challenged to Duels by the
	   other bearers of the Rose Signet.
Utena      You've gotta be kidding!
Utena      No way I'm going to keep fighting those pointless
	   duels!
ZUM        The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
ZUM        The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
ZUM        My own birth,
ZUM        Absolute birth,
ZUM        Apocalypse
ZUM        A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
ZUM        A gold-gilded Shangri-La
ZUM        Day and night reversing
ZUM        A time-gilded Lost Paradise
ZUM        Darkness over Sodom
ZUM        Darkness ever glowing
ZUM        Darkness over yonder
ZUM        Darkness never ending
ZUM        The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
ZUM        The Absolute Destiny: Apocalyptic Darkness;
	   Apocalypse
ZUM        mokushi kushimo shimoku kumoshi moshiku shikumo
ZUM        mokushi kushimo shimoku kumoshi moshiku shikumo
Paleozoic  Astrologic eras,
Paleozoic  primeval oceans,
Utena      ...the power to revolutionize the world!
Paleozoic  erosion and sediment
Paleozoic  Three billion years,
Paleozoic  genesis of life,
Paleozoic  geologic eras
Anthy      I though you weren't going to accept any Duels...
Paleozoic  Cambrian,
Paleozoic  Ordovician,
Utena      What could I do?
Paleozoic  Silurian,
Utena      If I didn't accept the Duel, I'd be kicked out of
	   the Academy.
Paleozoic  Devonian,
Paleozoic  Stromatolite,
Paleozoic  bacteria,
Saionji    I have you now!
Paleozoic  collenia.
Paleozoic  Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.
Saionji    You're pretty good.
Paleozoic  Lycopsida,
Utena      I'll just throw the Duel.
Utena      After that, no problem, right?
Paleozoic  selaginella,
Paleozoic  pleuromeia.
Saionji    The Sword of Dios doesn't have any special powers
	   per se.
Paleozoic  Caytonia
Paleozoic  bennetites,
Paleozoic  ammonite.
Saionji    It is a champion's sword, belonging only to the
	   best.
Paleozoic  Oceanic Rose,
Paleozoic  Oceanic Lily,
Saionji    Yesterday I just wasn't very focused,
Paleozoic  Oceanic Apple
Saionji    but obviously the differences in our skills is
	   vast.
Paleozoic  Oceanic Flower Buds.
Paleozoic  Oceanic Angel,
Paleozoic  Oceanic Mirror,
Paleozoic  Oceanic Gate,
Paleozoic  Oceanic Haze.
Paleozoic  Carboniferous, Permian, Paleozoic.
Paleozoic  The Oceanic You,
Saionji    That sword, and Anthy as well, belong to me.
Paleozoic  The Oceanic Me,
Saionji    They are my -- Saionji Kyouichi's -- flowers.
Paleozoic  are the Paleozoic within the body.
Saionji    Prepare to die!
Paleozoic  Continuing to live,
Paleozoic  continuing to die,
Paleozoic  the Paleozoic telling the story.
Paleozoic  Just like the whale,
Paleozoic  Just like the dolphin,
Paleozoic  Just like the seal,
Paleozoic  to the bottom of the sea, the oceanic me.
Paleozoic  At the bottom of the sea, a grand history.
Paleozoic  to the bottom of the sea, where I will be me.
Paleozoic  Ammonite!
Akio       It was from that moment that your power,
Akio       the Power of Dios, began to unseal itself at last.



Akio       Certainly she is fascinating.
Akio       She may even lead your power, the Power of Dios, to
	   its complete rebirth.
Akio       Her subsequent battles were also highly
	   individual.
Miki       I could never capture the quality of her playing.
Miki       I have to get that music back.
Spira      The theater,
Spira      gifted spirits,
Spira      a collective phenomenon.
Miki       Therefore, whatever it takes, I must have the
	   Bride.
Spira      The theater,
Spira      gifted characters,
Spira      a phantasmic reality.
Utena      It suits you better to sit down at the piano.
Spira      Operating table,
Spira      a shipwreck,
Spira      pure drama... spira mirabilis
Spira      Still spiraling,
Spira      transforming,
Spira      in the vortex. spira mirabilis
Spira      in Scipio's dream
Spira      The theater
Spira      illusory spirits,
Kozue      So, should we give it another try?
Spira      movement of immortality
Spira      The theater,
Touga      If something is really important to you, seize it
	   and protect it with your own hands,
Spira      illusory characters,
Spira      structure of immortality
Touga      lest someone should steal it, Micky.
Spira      Ammonite,
Spira      alchemy,
Utena      He's good...
Spira      scarab... spira mirabilis
Spira      Dying just to live once more.
Spira      spira mirabilis
Spira      in the vortex of miracles.
Spira      mai mai mai mai
Spira      mai mai mai mai
Spira      Never-ending theater
Utena      Let's settle this!
Spira      On the geometric stage
Miki       I won't be beaten! She believes in me!
Spira      of life and the mystery of death,
Anthy      There! Utena-sama, get him!
Spira      Exeunt, all!
Spira      Death rebirth death rebirth death rebirth death
	   rebirth
Spira      Death rebirth death rebirth death rebirth death
	   rebirth
Spira      Death rebirth death rebirth death rebirth!
Akio       I should say here that it was not just the power to
	   revolutionize the world that bound them.
Akio       But in seizing a miracle, it also seized them.
Juri       Your Rose Signet, throw this ring away!
Juri       It's disgusting! Your so-called nobility is to
	   copycat as someone you love told you!
DS         Nature's light
DS         Mosaic light
DS         Child of daybreak; the angel Lucifer
Shiori     Believe in a miracle,
DS         Apocalyptic light
DS         Michael's light
DS         Child of darkness; androgynous
Shiori     that your wish come true.
DS         Fire's light
DS         Heavenly light
DS         Hierarchia of the heavens
Juri       Are you alright, prince? We've only just begun.
DS         Illusory light
DS         Eternal light
DS         Phantasmic deception; capricious birth
DS         Nyx
DS         Erebus
DS         Uranus
DS         Thanatos
Juri       Why don't you try to step aside at least?
DS         Shining bodies, all of them spherical, gynous
DS         just as if born with every miracle, gynous.
DS         The pleasure principle, the Nirvana principle
DS         Death's inevitability, dubbed "the light"
Juri       Pathetic. You're already exhausted. But I'll have
	   no mercy.
DS         Without having to have lived,
DS         Phenomenon of mobile life
Juri       Isn't a miracle going to happen yet, prince?
DS         In the cerebral universe
DS         Shape of floating life
Juri       That's quick!
Shiori     But, I don't regret stealing him from you.
DS         Glory, ephemery, hope for eternity!
Shiori     You must hate me for being like this.
DS         Incomplete returning to the primitive beginnings.
Juri       "Believe in a miracle" was your favorite phrase.
DS         Male/female, positive/negative are the two of me.
DS         Up/down, left/right are the two of me.
Juri       THERE ARE NO MIRACLES!
DS         Front/back, Heaven/Earth are the two of me.
DS         Angel and devil are the two of me.
DS         The center is hollow hollow hollow hollow...
Juri       This is it.
Akio       Ah, yes, the young are forever aiming for the ends
	   of the world.
Nanami     It's your fault my brother got hurt!
Nanami     Your fault.
Nanami     Your fault.
LastEvo    Beginning of the earth
LastEvo    Stage props
LastEvo    Laplace nebula
LastEvo    Spectatorism
Nanami     Don't underestimate me!
LastEvo    Unchanging illusion
LastEvo    Mystery solving clock
LastEvo    Baby carriage of the
LastEvo    edge of immortality.
LastEvo    My eternal self and
Touga      Nanami, show me your power, as a chosen one of
	   "Ends of the World."
LastEvo    the eternal stranger
LastEvo    two relations; two births
LastEvo    scales of mystery; human constellation
Nanami     ...I've watched my brother like a hawk. You hurt
	   him!
Nanami     It's your fault, for interfering between me and my
	   brother.
Nanami     It's your fault.
Nanami     It's your fault.
Nanami     It's your fault.
Nanami     It's your fault.
Nanami     It's your fault.
Nanami     It's your...
LastEvo    Time is hypothetical, an illusional prop
LastEvo    of the beginnings of birth.
LastEvo    Destiny, choice, goodbye-ism
LastEvo    You and I are the Milky Way
LastEvo    Having no past, only the present, having no future, 
LastEvo    A single person in the Theatre Cosmic. That's me!
LastEvo    Wait! My last evolution-revolution-everlution
Akio       Friendship...
Akio       Choice...
Akio       Reason...
Akio       Love...
Akio       Adoration...
Akio       Conviction...
Akio       and Self.
Akio       Even after seven Duels, she is still a Duelist.
Akio       It may be that she is the very one we've wished
	   for.
Akio       At this rate, it's possible that she'll reach the
	   Duel called "Revolution."
Akio       It may be that the day of your total release is at
	   hand.
Akio       Don't give me that look.
Akio       We both look forward to that day, since we share a
	   vested interest.
Akio       But, a new stage is about to begin.
Akio       I wonder how she will fight Duels from now on.
Utena      Ouch! Hey, Chuchu!
Anthy      I'm home, Utena-sama, Chuchu.
Utena      Welcome back. Where have you been?
Anthy      Utena-sama, the clouds are moving so quickly.
Anthy      Utena-sama!
Anthy      Oh, dear, what should I do?



ED         Missing truth and forever
ED         Kissing love and true your heart
ED         Embrace me with your true arms
ED         The key to open up tomorrow is reality
ED         I want to keep on destroying lies.
ED         Even if we keep on talking,
ED         you still won't ever see.
ED         Excuses really suit adults
ED         who hang on to old stories.
ED         Because unchosen angels
ED         have no need for wings.
ED         Missing truth and forever,
ED         Kissing love and true your heart,
ED         I will like tomorrow's new me.
ED         At least I believe so; I want to believe it,
ED         so I want to keep lies hating me.



text       Preview of Next Episode
Anthy      Utena-sama, let me introduce my older brother to
	   you.
Utena      What? You have a brother?
Anthy      My brother doesn't know that I'm the Rose Bride or
	   about the Duelist's Code.
Anthy      Please, Utena-sama, you must keep this a secret
	   from him.
Anthy      I don't want to burden him.
Utena      But, suspicious people are after your brother's
	   fiancee.
Utena      Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: The Boys of the
	   Black Rose
Anthy      The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse.

A-ko       Might is right!
B-ko       And losers are bottomfeeders.
A-ko&B-ko  ...and when she walks, she is as the lily.

"Tateba shakuyaku, suwareba botan, aruku sugata wa yuri no hana."

"Standing, she is like a (herbaceous) peony; sitting, she is like a (tree) peony; and walking she is like a lily."

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