History Trivia / RevolutionaryGirlUtena

** Utena and Anthy would have been an unambiguous romantic couple in the series, had Be-Papas member ChihoSaito not objected resulting in an argument between her and Ikuhara. Thankfully, she later changed her mind and retracted any negative statements she may have had towards the pairing.

** Utena and Anthy would have been an unambiguous romantic couple in the series, except notoriously homophobic crew member Chiho Saito threatened to quit if it happened. A major reason the movie exists is that Ikuhara wanted to make it clear that they were a couple, without Saito wrecking the project over it.

** Juri's Japanese VA was Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (using the same voice she used for [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Misato Katsuragi]]), which of course meant [[spoiler: the only Student Council member Utena never outfought]] was ''Anime/SailorMoon''

** Juri's Japanese VA was Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, which of course meant [[spoiler: the only Student Council member Utena never outfought]] was ''Anime/SailorMoon.''

* ActorAllusion: Anthy's rabbit song in episode 7. The Japanese word for "rabbit" is "usagi," which was also the name of the main character in ''SailorMoon'', voiced by Juri's actress.

** Juri's Japanese VA was Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, which of course meant [[spoiler: the only Student Council member Utena never outfought]] was SailorMoon.

** RevolutionaryGirlUtena is the result of a WhatCouldHaveBeen for the SailorMoon [=SuperS=] movie. Kunihiko Ikuhara would have made the latter's SchoolgirlLesbians as the primary characters, and some of his original ideas for the movie would eventually be repurposed for the Utena television series.

** Shiori is referred to as "the goat" by [[TheScrappy her haters]].

** Juri's Japanese VA was KotonoMitsuishi, which of course meant [[spoiler: the only Student Council member Utena never outfought]] was SailorMoon.

* HeyItsThatVoice: TAJ Productions helped in the dubbing process, so many CentralParkMedia mainstays/later 4KidsEntertainment voices pop up here.
** Utena: RachaelLillis

** Ruka: WayneGrayson

** Mamiya is LiamOBrien in one of his earliest roles also.

** Shiori: LisaOrtiz

RevolutionaryGirlUtena is the result of a WhatCouldHaveBeen for the SailorMoon [=SuperS=] movie. Kunihiko Ikuhara would have made the latter's SchoolgirlLesbians as the primary characters, and some of his original ideas for the movie would eventually be repurposed for the Utena television series.

** TheMovie is sometimes called "The End of Utena" after [[NeonGenesisEvangelion that other infamous]] MindScrew.

** The re-release booklet also shows that Utena was originally going to keep the blonde hair she initially had in the manga, although her uniform color scheme went through many different ideas before they settled on the black and red. At one point, her hair was also considered to be blue. Anthy also retained her white Rose Bride dress at an early point in development, before Ikuhara decided to change it to red.

** The re-release booklet also shows that Utena was originally going to keep the blonde hair she initially had in the manga, although her uniform color scheme went through many different ideas before they settled on the black and red. At one point, her hair was also considered to be blue.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: the re-release booklet features art of a scrapped ending sequence that heavily featured Chu-Chu.
** This also applies to DubNameChange. The English dub featured the original Japanese names, but Enoki Films (the American licensor) did prepare a list of English names, with the title of the show changed to "Ursula's Kiss". Utena became Ursula, Anthy to Angie, Juri to Julie, etc. However, these names did end up being used in the Latin American dub (titled "The Magic Ring").

** Juri's Japanses VA was KotonoMitsuishi, which of course meant [[spoiler: the only Student Council member Utena never outfought]] was SailorMoon.

** Touga is CrispinFreeman in his second official big role ([[{{Slayers}} Zelgadis]] being his first)

* HeyItsThatVoice!: TAJ Productions helped in the dubbing process, so many CentralParkMedia mainstays/later 4KidsEntertainment voices pop up here.

** Mikage: [[DanGreen '''DAN GREEN!''']] A sharp contrast from his [[LargeHam usual]] [[ChewingTheScenery endeavors]], but still very well done.

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