Rose of Versailles
| The Rose of Versailles | |
Oscar (right) and Marie Antoinette (left)
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ベルサイユのばら (Berusaiyu no Bara) |
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| Genre | Historical, Drama, Romance, Tragedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Riyoko Ikeda |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Margaret |
| Original run | 1972 – 1973 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
Tadao Nagahama (01-20) Osamu Dezaki (21-40) |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Tōkyō Movie Shinsha |
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| Original network | Animax, Nippon Television |
| Original run | 10 October 1979 – 3 September 1980 |
| Episodes | 40 |
| 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 |
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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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