[ID: A series of screencaps of Revolutionary Girl Utena with text from "How to be a Dog" edited over them.
In the first image, Anthy looks up at the ceiling of the planetarium with text reading "If you want to be a dog, first you must learn to wait".
The second image shows Anthy in her coffin with a crack of light pouring in. Text reads "you must wait all day until somebody returns",
The third image shows Utena and Anthy falling asleep across the table holding each other's hands. "And if someone returns late, you must learn to wait until then."
Akio rests a hand on top of Dios' shoulder as the text continues "Then you must learn to speak in one of the voices available to you"
Anthy waters her plants inside of her rose garden with text reading "high and light".
Utena holds a hand up showing her rose ring as text reads "or mellow thick and low".
Nanami stands scowling with her arms crossed as text reads "or middle-range and terse".
Young Anthy stands outside the cottage with the angry mob around her shouting and text reading "Whichever voice you learn to speak, you will meet someone who does not like you because of it,"
Saionji slaps Anthy across her face with text reading "they will be wary or annoyed",
Anthy sits at the piano in the same style as flashbacks showing Miki and Kozue, "or you will remind them of something".
Anthy holds her hand out with an orange rose and text reading "or someone else".
Anthy is standing in the shadows underneath the bridge, light glinting off her glasses. Text reads "Once you have learned to speak, you must learn not to speak".
Anthy pulls a sword out of Utena's chest with text reading "until you absolutely must".
Touga stands in the foreground, watching Nanami and Utena fight with swords with text over them reading "or to speak as much as you feel you must".
The headlights of a car shine through an archway with text reading "no matter how many times you are told to stop".
Kanae sits in a chair waiting as text over her reads "or sit".
Nanami sits on the floor outside of the greenhouse with Touga and Keiko inside, arm wrapped aroudn herself with text reading "or placed behind a door".
Dios is dancing with two different women, Utena in her princess attire and Anthy in her rose bride attire, with text reading "this will depend on what kind of dog you want to be."
Text over the student council (Touga, Nanami, Miki, Juri, and Saionji) reads "and indeed there are many kinds".
Touga pulls Nanami close to him in the aftermath of their duel, "It may not feel as if you get to choose, and that too is a kind of dog."
Utena is sitting on a horse with Akio, clinging to him, as text reads "Next you may learn to relinquish all control over everything you wish to control".
Utena is reflected in Anthy's glasses as she tries on the earrings Akio gave her, with text reading "You must learn to prefer to be led about by the neck on a piece of string,"
Anthy is lying, undressed and in pain, on the stairs that Akio abandoned her on, with text reading "or staked to a neglected lawn by a length of chain,"
A closeup of Anthy and Utena's entertwined fingers as text reads "You must learn, once you have sampled the freedom of a life without chain"
Anthy drives a sword through Utena with text reading "that it is better to return and be chained again".
Anthy sets her glasses down next to a pile of letters with text reading "Or you may learn that it is not,"
Anthy walks out of Ohtori with her suitcase as text reads "a fugitive is also a kind of dog".]
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