Contemporary The Rose of Versailles Anime Film Finds January 31 Opening

The workers for the sleek anime film of Riyoko Ikeda‘s The Rose of Versailles manga revealed the character visuals and the film’s January 31 opening, on Monday.

Ai Yoshimura (Day-to-day Lives of Excessive College Boys. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) directs the film at MAPPA. Tomoko Konparu (Ashita no Nadja, Uta no Prince-sama – Maji Take care of 1000%) pens the script, and Mariko Oka (First Take care of Monster, Hell Lady) designs the characters. Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist) serves as song producer, and is to blame for the song along with Kohta Yamamoto (Kaina of the Immense Snow Sea, 86).

The workers describes the yarn:

Oscar François de Jarjayes, raised because the “son” and heir of a frequent’s household, masquerades as a ultimate looking out woman in men’s clothing. Marie Antoinette getting back from neighboring Austria as a bride to alter into a noble and pretty queen.. Oscar’s servant and childhood buddy, the commoner André Grandier. Hans Axel von Fersen, an attractive and realistic rely from Sweden. They meet in Versailles, France within the affluent late 18th Century and are living their respective destinies fantastically while being tossed about by the tides of cases.

Ikeda serialized the sleek manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Margaret magazine from 1972 to 1973. The “story of love and destiny” is decided within the intrigue-filled court docket of Queen Marie Antoinette sooner than and all the way in which by means of the upheavals of the French Revolution. Woman Oscar is a young woman raised as a man to motivate within the palace guards.

Udon Leisure started releasing the manga in English in December 2019, and has since launched the general manga in 5 omnibus volumes. Udon also licensed The Rose of Versailles Episodes facet yarn manga, nonetheless has no longer yet launched the precious quantity.

The manga inspired a 40-episode anime in 1979-1980 that Upright Stuf launched in North The United States in 2013 in two DVD fashions. Discotek produced an HD remaster of the sequence, and the two-quantity release shipped in 2021.

In addition to the television anime sequence, the manga inspired a 1990 animated film, a lengthy-promised nonetheless unreleased animated film remake, perennial musicals by the all-feminine Takarazuka Revue since 1974, and a are living-motion 1978 French/Japanese film. More honest nowadays, DLE Inc. created authorized parody shorts with Flash animation.

The manga inspired the Shiritsu BeruBara Academy ~Versailles no Bara Re*creativeness~ (Interior most BeruBara Academy: Rose of Versailles Re*creativeness) sport from Otomate. The sport launched in May perchance 2019.

Update: Corrected release space of The Rose of Versailles Episodes manga. ,em>Thanks, GATSU.

Source: Press release