Revolutionary Girl Utena is a Japanese anime television series created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko Ikuhara and composed of himself, Chiho Saito, Shinya Hasegawa, Yōji Enokido and Yūichirō Oguro. The series was produced by J.C.Staff and originally aired on TV Tokyo from April to December 1997. Revolutionary Girl Utena follows Utena Tenjou, a teenaged girl who is drawn into a sword dueling tournament to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious girl known as the "Rose Bride" who possesses the "power to revolutionize the world".
The Takarazuka Revue (pictured 1954), an all-female Japanese theater troupe, was a major influence on Revolutionary Girl Utena.
The Student Council's mantra is a modified passage from Hermann Hesse's 1919 bildungsroman novel Demian.
J.C.Staff Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio founded in January 1986 by Tomoyuki Miyata, who previously worked at Tatsunoko Production. The studio's first release was Yōtōden in 1987. They have produced several well-known anime series, such as Azumanga Daioh, Bakuman, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Date A Live III, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., The Familiar of Zero, Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Maid Sama!, Mewkledreamy, One-Punch Man seasons 2 and 3, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Shakugan no Shana, Aria the Scarlet Ammo and Toradora!.
Swing Building, where the central office is located
