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- Published: November 22, 2024 11:24
New Delhi: Based on the history plot of Marie Antionette and Louis XVI, withholding the aspects of crossdressing, drama, and romance, and pioneered by the production studio MAPPA, ‘The Rose of Versailles’ is the upcoming anime movie starring a twisted plot that marks its connection with the events of real-life history long gone cold in relics that lay untouched.
The Rose of Versailles (also known as Lady Oscar and La Rose de Versailles, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine Margaret from 1972 to 1973, while a revival of the series was published in the magazine from 2013 to 2018.
Ikeda created The Rose of Versailles as a story about revolution and populist uprisings after becoming involved with Japan’s New Left as a member of the Communist Party of Japan in the late 1960s. The movie will be released on the 31st of January.
The Rose of Versailles Main Trailer
(Studio: MAPPA)
Scheduled to premier in Japanese Theaters January 31st, 2025
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Anime’s Next Big Shojo, The Rose of Versailles, Drops
Stunning New Trailer
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Plot
The Rose of Versailles is set in France before and during the French Revolution. The primary characters that the story features are Marie Antionette, who is the teenage Dauphine and the later queen of France, and Oscar François de Jarjayes, the youngest of six daughters, raised as a son from birth by her military general father to succeed him as the Royal Guard.
The primary action of the story revolves around Oscar’s growing realization of how France is governed, and of the plight of the country’s poor. When Marie Antoinette starts an affair with the Swedish Count Axel von Fersen.
Their relationship becomes the subject of gossip and scandal throughout France, and Antoinette’s reputation suffers irreparable damage, staining her reputable image in France, when he leaves for the American Revolutionary War, his departure sets off a chain of events that lead to France drowning in debt.
