I wanna say April 2, 1997... At least for the Japanese version. No idea on the Spanish one.


And... I'd gladly look at your journal more but... I have no idea what it says... ;

allegoriest wrote:

I wanna say April 2, 1997... At least for the Japanese version. No idea on the Spanish one.


And... I'd gladly look at your journal more but... I have no idea what it says... ;

Yep yep. April 2, 1997 – December 24, 1997.

...nice gift Akio gets on Christmas Eve, huh?

Giovanna wrote:

allegoriest wrote:

I wanna say April 2, 1997... At least for the Japanese version. No idea on the Spanish one.


And... I'd gladly look at your journal more but... I have no idea what it says... ;

Yep yep. April 2, 1997 – December 24, 1997.

...nice gift Akio gets on Christmas Eve, huh?

And the series premiered on Kanae's birthday, at that.

Cerise wrote:

After sleuthing to figure out if you were in Spain, Mexico, or another Spanish-speaking country, I check the Anime News Network Encyclopedia to see their info.  According to them, it aired from May 20, 2000 to August 27, 2000 on Unicable Mexico Broadcast.  It is not clear if that's the first time it aired, but I think it's highly possible that it was.

Unicable aired it the second time and it was on Cable, not on Open TV on México.

The first time was on 1999 on Canal 4, I think. They transmited just 'til episode 22, I believe, since I wasn't able to watch it since Canal 4 is an Open tv local channel for those who live on Mexico City and their surrondings. Since I'm in the southern part of the country, the signal never made it to my city. 

Unicable made a good work airing to episode 31. But they had some serious changes, like the names: Utena was not "Utena", but "Ursula", and Anthy was called "Angie". Kyouchi Saijonji was named KEVIN Saijonji,(OMFG!!!!!) and also it wasn't called "The Sword of Dios", since well... Dios is spanish for "God", so most of the people here would crash and start praying and saying it was blasphemous and so on... so they decided for "Dionisios" instead of "Dios". Also, the opening and the ending theme, the Rinbu Revolution and Truth song, were translated and sung by a mexican seiyuu, who did a good work but not the best we could expect, "Virtual Star Hasseigaku", the second ending, was butchered too... they just placed over the "Truth" mexican version song over the scenes, which made it look pretty weird (but oh well... Utena is pretty much weirdness all over it). Also, they switched the name from "Revolutionary Girl Utena" to "El Anillo Mágico", which translates as "The Magic Ring"... (No comment on that one)

Other than that butchering, they did a good job on the voice acting and the dubbing, not like the english one. In fact, I preffer "Ursula"'s voice more than Utena's original. But that's just my choice.

Thanks everyone for your cooperation. I'll post up the article about Utena on spanish once I finished it. (sorry, but that's the intention since we spanish speakers have so little info on our language from this series)

Matta-ne!
Kiriyama Nox.

Wow, I'm really surprised!  I figured Utena must have aired over at least two years.  But no -- thirty-nine episodes in thirty-nine weeks.  Let's see American TV come up with a quality half-hour every week with no reruns!

satyreyes wrote:

Wow, I'm really surprised!  I figured Utena must have aired over at least two years.  But no -- thirty-nine episodes in thirty-nine weeks.  Let's see American TV come up with a quality half-hour every week with no reruns!

I think you're forgetting about the dungheap that is episode 36.