Revolutionary Girl Utena — Season 1, Episode 18: Mitsuru's Impatience

Episode synopsis

Tsuwabuki has still been serving Nanami as if he were her servant. Tsuwabuki's friend, Mari, isn't happy with him for being like that. She says Tsuwabuki is just being taken advantage of because he is just a child. Later, he begins to realize that he is treated as a child by Nanami. He wishes he were Nanami's age. Tsuwabuki asks Utena what he has to do to become a grown-up. Utena says it is probably to experience various things. Tsuwabuki tries to "experience various things" by watching kiss-scenes in films. Mari makes a fun of him, saying it is obvious that one who has experienced a real kiss is more grown up than one who has seen a hundred kiss-scenes. Tsuwabuki tries to do it with Mari and gets slapped. Nanami witnesses. When she asks him about the affair, Tsuwabuki realizes that he is treated as a child after all. At Nemuro Memorial Hall, he confesses that he wishes to grow up right now. Mikage takes advantage of him.

About Revolutionary Girl Utena

"Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. Now a teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy; however, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Rose Bride
• E2For Whom the Rose Smiles
• E3On the Night of the Ball
• E4The Sunlit Garden - Prelude
• E5The Sunlit Garden - Finale
• E6Take Care, Miss Nanami!
• E7Unfulfilled Juri
• E8Curried High Trip
• E9The Castle Said to Hold Eternity
• E10Nanami's Precious Thing
• E11Gracefully Cruel - The One Who Picks That Flower
• E12For Friendship, Perhaps