Haru Dipthong's Utena Fansub Masterpost
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.
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 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 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
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