The Rose of Versailles anime movie by MAPPA revealed a new character trailer, introducing the main character Marie Antoinette. The movie is set to premiere in in Japan on January 31, 2025.
Ai Yoshimura is directing the anime, with Tomoko Konparu on the script, Mariko Oka as the character designer, and Hiroyuki Sawano on the music with KOHTA YAMAMOTO. The main trailer was released in November last year.
Marie is described as a woman who lived proudly in love during the turbulent French Revolution. Her Japanese voice actress is Aya Hirano, and she previously also got a visual for her birthday. She is based on the real life Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France.
Prior to Marie, Oscar also got a character trailer. Voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro, Oscar is described as a person who fought with love and justice in his own beliefs. As the “son” of the heir to a shogun’s family, Oskar was raised strictly as a man, even though he was a woman, and at the age of 14, he married Marie Antoinette from Austria, saying, “It is my mission to protect her at all costs.”
The Rose of Versailles is based on a historical and romance manga series by veteran mangaka Riyoko Ikeda. It was serialized by Shueisha and ran from May 1972 to December 1973. The manga is considered one of the pioneering works of the shojo genre. TMS Entertainment animated the original 1979 The Rose of Versailles anime, with Tadao Nagahama and Osamu Dezaki as directors. It aired for forty episodes on Nippon TV.
The official synopsis:
Oscar François de Jarjayes, raised as the “son” and heir of a general’s family, masquerades as a beautiful woman in men’s clothing. Marie Antoinette arriving from neighboring Austria as a bride to become a noble and graceful queen.. Oscar’s servant and childhood friend, the commoner André Grandier. Hans Axel von Fersen, a handsome and intelligent count from Sweden. They meet in Versailles, France in the prosperous late 18th Century and live their respective destinies beautifully while being tossed about by the tides of times.
The Rose of Versailles increased interest for French tourism among Japanese people, with Ikeda getting the “Legion of Honor” award from the French government in 2009. The movie adaptation was announced in September 2022, four decades after the original anime series finished airing in 1980.
Source: The Rose of Versailles Official YouTube
© Riyoko Ikeda Production / The Rose of Versailles Production Committee
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