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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.
Translation Notes
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 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 14 - The Boys Of The Black Rose
Episode 15 - The Landscape Framed By Kozue
Episode 16 - The Almglocken Of Happiness
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 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 35 - The Love That Blossomed In Wintertime
Episode 36 - And The Doors Of Night Open
Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionise The World
this video sends me every time. the lip syncing. the source material. iconic
I reblogged this one time and someone else who reblogged it from me tagged it with #violence
#violence
#violence
I should message her
Rainbow Bee Eaters (Merops ornatus), family Meropidae, order Coraciiformes, Australia
photograph by Darren Stephens
like as a feminist and an asexual if you ever imply that not having sex / not having "enough" of it is a conservative or reactionary trait I will be running you over with a bus pronto
you do not need to have sex ever. if you don't want to then you can just not do it. you don't need to have sex in order to mature as a person. you don't need to have sex to prove that you don't think it's immoral. you don't need to have sex to be a good partner. you don't need to have sex to be physically and/or mentally healthy. all of these goals can be achieved by hundreds of means other than sex. you can chose to do it for any reason you want, but you can also chose not to do it for any reason you want, including just not really feeling like it at any given time in any situation. the only thing not having sex says about your life and character is that you decided not to have sex. you can really really just not do it and that will be 1000x better for you in every conceivable way than making yourself do it when you don't want to.
So tired of shallow readings of texts that begin and end with "these two men were gay for each other" ESPECIALLY bc it almost always goes hand in hand with dismissing all female characters out of hand. Yes nick was gay for gatsby but daisy is an extremely important part of novel and gatsby's relationship to her is absolutely vital. Yes goodnight sweet prince is a little fruity but I also care deeply about the tense gender politics of hamlet and ophelia's relationship and her position as a foil to him and also isn't it SO much more interesting if Hamlet really did love her? If he loved her and yet? Like I'm not saying these men aren't gay but it's not worth sacrificing the women of the story
And ALSO this pattern comes with a tendency to oversimplify what makes the m/m relationships compelling in the first place. Nick is obsessed with Gatsby, and enthralled by his life, and his wealth, and horrified by his single-minded obsession, and unable to look away, to stop himself from being complicit. In the depths of his paranoia, Horatio is the only person Hamlet seems to trust implicitly to tell him the truth, and eventually, to retell the truth of his life to others. These are JUICY dynamics and they are not at all served by the impulse to turn a tragedy into a love story with no more substance than "these problems could be solved if they just got gay married"
