— if it’s fate, it’s a horrible one. cruel.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX writer Yoji Enokido's commentary from the two Revolutionary Girl Utena script books for the episodes of Utena that he wrote....TRANSLATED.

We sent these two 1998 script books, The Rose Bride and The Rose Crest, to Nagumo, who confirmed there are indeed deviations in the published scripts compared to the final result...so I guess that's these puppies on the scanner chopping block! But in the meantime, the episode commentaries themselves have been translated, as always, by our friend Nagumo, with Ayu Ohseki editing! Downloads to the scans of these pages in Japanese are included! Read them here, at From the Mouths of Babes, our creator commentary/meta site!

The Rose Bride (Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 15, 22, & 23) The Rose Crest (Episodes 25, 26, 30, 34, 37, 38, & 39)

What have we got??? A handful of highlights:

The 100 boys that died were Class D, for 'des' (Death.) Afterwards, they began skipping D and going straight to E, like we do with skipping floor 13

Nanami thinks the letters from Ends of the World are ridiculous.

More mentions of Terayama Shuji's "Pastoral: To Die in the Country"

Multiple explanations for incest that boil down to 'it's drama baby'

Kanae probably knows about Akio and Anthy, deep down.

Juri and Kozue 'seem to understand each other well.' (shifty eyes)

The character 時 (“time”) is shared between Tokiko and Souji. Souji borrowed the character from Tokiko’s name to incorporate it into his false name.

"...somewhere deep within Anthy, she has unknowingly started seeing Utena as a Prince. That’s why Akio’s Sword of Dios disappears and “Utena’s Sword of Dios” manifests."

Confirmation that Nanami called Saionji 'Kyouchi' because he's been part of her life pre-dating Ohtori

Anthy appears as Miki and Kozue's new mother-in-law because 'Bride' as a concept is shared and it's an anime so nothing is real

Utena doesn't pick up on the vibes Akio's throwing until he takes her shoes off

His favorite scene to write was the badminton one.

Akio's birthday is based on Cesare Borgia's, because Cesare and Lucrezia are Akio and Anthy inspos

Akio is not a duelist, and because of that, his name lacks a reference to plants, which everyone else has.

"It is likely that as her Christ, she knew Anthy would deny her three times before the cock crowed."