Deeply depressed by her parent's death, grade-school girl Utena throws herself in a river but is rescued by a prince, thereby making Utena vow to become a strong and courageous prince.[...]
A liberal adaptation of the movie by the same name, "The Adolescence of Utena" veers widely from its original source. More direct than the anime and more mature than the original manga series, this version of Chiho Saito's fractured fairy tale blasts Utena straight into the iconic stratosphere.[...]