Avex Pictures on Wednesday opened an official website for a new anime film adaptation for Ryoko Ikeda’s Versailles no Bara (The Rose of Versailles) manga, revealing a teaser scene (pictured) and an announcement promo. The anime film is celebrating the 50th anniversary of manga serialization.
The historical drama manga was serialized in the weekly Margaret from 1972–1973 and was compiled into ten volumes from 1972 to 1974. Shueisha later reprinted it in 10 bunkoban volumes from 1977 to 1978. Ikeda serialized the four-volume story between April 2013 and February 2018. Versailles no Barra sold a total of 20 million copies of its volumes.
Tokyo Movie Shinsha produced a 40-episode television anime from 1979 to summer 1980. The Semei Aru Kagiri Aishite (I’ll Love You as Long as I Live) anthology film premiered in May 1990.
Udon Entertainment licensed the manga in English in July 2015 and published it in five omnibus volumes from February 2020 and April 2021. Right Stuff licensed the television anime under their Nozomi Entertainment label in September 2012 and released it on two DVD volumes in May and July. next year. Discotek Media reacquired the anime and released it on two Blu-ray versions in April and June of last year.
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Hoping to unite her countries with an alliance, the Empress of Austria arranged for her daughter, the delightful but spoiled Marie Antoinette, to marry Prince Louis XVI of France. Arriving at Versailles, the Austrian princess meets Oscar François de Jaerjeus, the captain of the Royal Guards—a seemingly flamboyant young man—but to Antoinette’s astonishment, she is actually a woman!
The youngest daughter of an aristocratic family that majorly lacked 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 longing for companionship, Antoinette immediately falls for this intriguing young woman, and wastes no time befriending her. However, as the childish new queen foolishly abuses her power, Oscar is conflicted between maintaining his loyalty to the royal family and allaying the growing concern of poverty among ordinary people.
Recounting the events of the French Revolution, Versailles no Barra depicts the struggles of two women who are unjustifiably burdened by family expectations. Yet, despite being forced to deny their identity at the cost of personal happiness, they become major players in the annals of history. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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