On the official website of the new anime adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda“The Rose of Versailles (Versailles in Bara)”, a new promotional video for the project was revealed. The video confirms this The premiere is scheduled for early 2025 in theaters in Japan.and list the studies MAP They are responsible for production.

Ikeda began publishing the manga through the magazine Daisy from the publisher Shueisha in May 1972 and suspended it in December 1973. It was later republished between April 2013 and February 2018, accumulating fourteen compilation volumes. The work inspired an anime adaptation of forty episodes produced by the studios TMS Entertainment and broadcast between October 1979 and September 1980 in Japan.

Shojo manga (girls' manga) of the 1960s consisted largely of simple stories aimed at school-aged girls that did not deal with topics such as politics and sexuality, which were considered taboo. These attitudes began to change in the 1970s, when new authors began to move shojo manga away from children and toward an audience of teenagers and young women.

This change was embodied by a new generation of shojo manga artists known collectively as the 24 Years Group, of which Ikeda was a member.; The group was so named because its members were born around the year 24 of the Showa era (or 1949 in the Gregorian calendar). The group contributed significantly to the development of shojo manga, expanding the genre to incorporate elements of science fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, and same-sex romance: both male-male (yaoi) and female-female (yuri).

voice cast

• Miyuki Sawashiro as Oscar François de Jarjayes.
• Aya Hirano like Marie Antoinette.
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga like André Grandier.
• Kazuki Katou like Hans Axel von Fersen.

Production team

• Oh Yoshimura (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru., Ao Haru Ride, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou) is responsible for project management in studies MAP.
• Tomoko Konparu (To Haru Ride, Kimi ni Todoke, NANA and Nodame Cantabile) is responsible for writing and supervising the scripts.
• Mariko Oka (Jigoku Shoujo, Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou, Hatsukoi Monster) is responsible for character design and animation direction.
• Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin, Nanatsu no Taizai) and Kouta Yamamoto (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season, 86: Eighty-Six) is responsible for composing the soundtrack.

Synopsis of The Rose of Versailles

Hoping to unite her countries through an alliance, the Empress of Austria arranges the marriage of her daughter, the charming but spoiled Marie Antoinette, to the crown prince of France, Louis XVI. Upon arriving at Versailles, the Austrian princess meets Oscar François de Jarjayes, captain of the royal guard, a seemingly elegant young man who, to Antoinette's surprise, is actually a woman.

The youngest daughter of a noble family with no male heir, Oscar was raised as a boy to carry on the family’s military legacy. Stifled by the strict rules associated with her new position and yearning for companionship, Antoinette takes an instant liking to this intriguing young woman and wastes no time in befriending her. However, as the new child queen foolishly abuses her power, Oscar finds himself torn between maintaining his loyalty to the royal family and facing growing concerns about the poverty of the common people.

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