The main character of the show is, of course, Utena. She is a 14-year-old eighth grader at Ohtori Academy. Teachers get upset when they see Utena in a boy's uniform. It doesn't look like a boy's uniform, it's just a military outfit made to fit Utena's body. The Student Council bascially controls the school. They are students who duel each other to find who gets engaged to the Rose Bride. Whoever wins the Rose Bride is supposed to have the power to "bring the world revolution." Utena gets into the whole dueling thing when one of the duelists hurt her best friend. Then she challenges Saionji and kicks his butt with a wooden stick. Since she won the duel, she gets the Rose Bride, an odd girl who gets abused by Saionji. From there, the show follows Utena's duels with each Student Council member and other events that occur along the way.
The Utena series has 39 episodes in all, which are broken down into four sagas. The sagas are The Student Council Saga, the Black Rose Saga, the Ohtori Akio saga, and the Apocalypse saga. The series has many odd things in it, but that's what makes the show interesting. That's what Shoujo Kakumei Utena is all about.