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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.

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

the creed of the seamstress is that you're pretty in pieces

I transitioned before the informed consent model arrived in Australia and had to fill out the big long questionnaires to "prove" my masculinity. Of course, one of the many things they asked were "if you saw a mouse, would you eat it?". I'd been eating mice ever since the start of my transition because it helped me pass more readily amongst cisgender men, but the fact it was in the questionnaire was telling.

But we do need to bring up the fact that men, both cis and trans, are not only taught subliminally that if they see a mouse they should eat it, but that we often explicitly told this is a tenant of masculinity.

Mayor Mamdani's first month takes an unexpected turn as the Five Boroughs were severed from the earth. Reporters on the ground have stated that nothing was left behind, save for smouldering claw-marks in the street, and most of Long Island.

The new mayor could not be reached for comment; however, the nation's president is reported as having experienced his first real emotion in over 30 years, after staffers informed him of the city's disappearance. This report was shortly followed by an email from senior presidential advisors, stating:

The headquarters of more than 40 different Fortune 500 companies have vanished - and reportedly, residents of "Neath York" haven't seen them, either.

Nation-wide, CEOs of major companies are struggling to understand the discrepency between the profits and the reported value of their businesses. When Mr. ______, CEO and founder of ________ was interviewed on the matter, he had this to say:

"I just don't understand it. My analysts have all gone on extended leave. They said they feel like there's something missing in their heads, something massive; I think they're colluding on something. [...] they must've talked me into slashing my pay, too, as some kind of PR move. It's insane, who would give up that kind of money for nothing? I mean, my annual salary isn't even over $500,000 - I could lose my home!"

The value of the dollar appears to have dropped almost overnight, following the loss of New York City. Economists across the country have been collaborating feverishly to pinpoint the exact cause.

On 4chan's infamous '/pol' board, one self-described economist wrote the following:

">over 40 fortine 500 companies now headless

>new york Gdp drops

>national gdp drops

>???

>value of the dollar [----]ing evaporates?

I dont know guys, the numbers still dont really add up. its like they erased something huge."

Many economists have also called in to report what could be a massive hacking campaign, targeting the foundations of American business. The cause of this concern? A mysterious suite of software, often with titles containing the name of a non-existent company, followed with words like 'index', 'market', or 'finance'.