Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena

At Ohtori Academy, a girl named Utena has decided she will become a prince, and she is drawn into a strange contest of duels overseen by the school's student council. The stakes center on a mysterious young woman who is treated as the prize of these matches. As Utena is pulled further into the duels, she and the council members each face private struggles over identity, power and what it means to grow up. Dreamlike imagery and unsettling rituals fill the school, pressing the story toward questions no one seems willing to answer.