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Rose of Versailles

The Rose of Versailles
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Oscar (right) and Marie Antoinette (left)
ベルサイユのばら
(Berusaiyu no Bara)
Genre Historical, Drama, Romance, Tragedy
Manga
Written by Riyoko Ikeda
Published by Shueisha
English publisher
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Margaret
Original run 19721973
Volumes 10 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Tadao Nagahama (01-20)
Osamu Dezaki (21-40)
Music by Kōji Makaino
Studio Tōkyō Movie Shinsha
Licensed by
Original network Animax, Nippon Television
Original run 10 October 19793 September 1980
Episodes 40 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
The Rose and Women of Versailles
Directed by Osamu Dezaki
Studio Tōkyō Movie Shinsha
Released September 10, 1980
Runtime 30 minutes
Anime film
The Rose of Versailles: I'll Love You As Long As I Live
Directed by Kenji Kodama
Yoshio Takeuchi
Studio Tōkyō Movie Shinsha
Released May 19, 1990
Runtime 90 minutes
Movies
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The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら Berusaiyu no Bara?), also known as Lady Oscar or La Rose de Versailles, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga and a media franchise created by Riyoko Ikeda. It has been adapted into several Takarazuka Revue musicals, as well an anime television series, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and broadcast by the anime television network Animax and Nippon Television. The show remains incredibly popular in Italy.

The Rose of Versailles focuses on Oscar François de Jarjayes, a girl raised as a man to become her father's successor as leader of the Palace Guards. A brilliant combatant with a strong sense of justice, Oscar is proud of the life she leads, but becomes torn between class loyalty and her desire to help the impoverished as revolution brews among the oppressed lower class. Also important to the story are her conflicting desires to live life as both a militant and a regular woman as well as her relationships with Marie Antoinette, Count Axel von Fersen, and servant and best friend André Grandier.

It features elements of the yuri genre embodied in the relationship between Oscar and her protégée Rosalie Lamorlière, the secret daughter of the scheming Madame de Polignac. Rosalie refers to Oscar as her first love. Many of the court ladies also greatly adore Oscar, openly admiring her at parties and become very jealous when she brings female companions to them.


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