The Rose of Versailles will have its return in 2025
On the official site for the new anime adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda, "The Rose of Versailles (Versailles no Bara)," a new promotional video for the project was revealed. The video confirms that the premiere is scheduled for early 2025 in theaters in Japan, and lists that MAPPA studios are in charge of the production.
Ikeda began publishing the manga through Shueisha's Margaret magazine in May 1972 and discontinued it in December 1973. He later republished it between April 2013 and February 2018, accumulating fourteen compilation volumes. The work inspired a forty-episode anime adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment studios and broadcast between October 1979 and September 1980 in Japan.
Shojo manga (women's manga) of the 1960s largely consisted of simple stories aimed at schoolgirls, which did not deal with topics such as politics and sexuality, which were considered taboo. These attitudes began to change in the 1970s, when new authors began to move shojo manga away from a children's audience and toward an audience of teenagers and young women.
This change came to be embodied by a new generation of shojo manga artists known collectively as the Year 24 Group, of which Ikeda was a member; the group was so named because its members were born in or around the 24th year of the Showa era (or 1949 in the Gregorian calendar). The group contributed significantly to the development of shojo manga by expanding the genre to incorporate elements of science fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, and same-sex romance: both male-male (yaoi) and female-female (yuri).
Voice cast
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Oscar François de Jarjayes
- Aya Hirano as Marie Antoinette
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga as André Grandier
- Kazuki Katou as Hans Axel von Fersen
Production Equipment
- Ai Yoshimura (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru., Ao Haru Ride, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou) is in charge of the direction of the project at MAPPA studios.
- Tomoko Konparu (Ao Haru Ride, Kimi ni Todoke, NANA, Nodame Cantabile) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Mariko Oka (Jigoku Shoujo, Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou, Hatsukoi Monster) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
- Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin, Nanatsu no Taizai) and Kouta Yamamoto (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season, 86: Eighty Six) are in charge of the composition of the soundtrack.
Synopsis of The Rose of Versailles
Hoping to unite their countries in an alliance, the Empress of Austria arranges the marriage of her daughter, the charming but spoiled Marie Antoinette, to the Crown Prince of France, Louis XVI. Upon arriving at Versailles, the Austrian princess meets Oscar François de Jarjayes, captain of the royal guard, a seemingly elegant young man, but, to Antoinette's surprise, he is actually a woman.
The youngest daughter of a noble family that lacks a male heir, Oscar was raised as a boy to continue the family's military legacy. Suffocated by the rigid rules associated with her new position and craving company, Antoinette immediately takes a liking to this scheming young woman, and wastes no time in befriending her. However, while the childish new queen foolishly abuses her power, Oscar finds himself torn between maintaining his loyalty to the royal family and dealing with growing concern about the poverty of the common people.
Source: Comic Natalie
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