Revolutionary Girl Utena
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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 E
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.
Takarazuka Revue
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The Takarazuka Revue is a Japanese all-female musical theatre troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan that was formed in 1913. Women play all the roles in Broadway-style productions of mus
Revolutionary Girl Utena
…narrative style is characterized by a sense of theatrical presentation and staging, drawing inspiration from the all-female Japanese theater troupe the Takarazuka Revue, as well as the experimental theater of Shūji Terayama, whose frequent collaborator J. A. Seazer created the songs featured in the series. Revolutionary…
Parisette, 1930
Takarazuka Grand Theater (Hyōgo Prefecture)
The first performance, Donburako, in 1914