With this trailer the official website of the new anime film based on the manga The Rose of Versailles in Riyoko Ikeda revealed that the premiere will take place in early 2025. Below you can see a promotional image.
We also learned that the animation was delivered to the studio MAPPA (Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, The God of High School, Dororo, Dorohedoro), directed by Oh Yoshimura (Daily Lives of High School Boys. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU), the plot is by Tomoko Komparu (Ashita no Nadja, Uta no Prince-sama – Maji Love 1000%) and the character design is by Mariko Oka (First Love Monster, Hell Girl). The musical production was handed over to Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist) along with Kohta Yamamoto (Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, 86).
In the cast we have:
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Oscar François de Jarjayes
- Aya Hirano like Marie Antoinette
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga like André Grandier
- Kazuki Katō as Hans Axel von Fersen
In the description of the anime film we can read:
Oscar François de Jarjayes, raised as the “son” and heir of a general’s family, disguises himself as a beautiful woman dressed as a man. Marie Antoinette arriving from neighboring Austria as a bride to become a noble and gracious 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 out their respective destinies beautifully while being tossed by the tides of the times.
The Rose of Versailles (Versailles no Bara) began serialization in Shueisha’s Margaret magazine in May 1972 and was suspended in December 1973. It was later relaunched between April 2013 and February 2018, accumulating 14 compiled volumes.
The manga inspired a 40-episode anime series adaptation produced by the studios TMS Entertainment and broadcast between October 1979 and September 1980 in Japan.
Shojo manga of the 1960s consisted largely of simple stories aimed at school-aged girls, in which topics such as politics and sexuality were considered taboo and were not portrayed. These attitudes began to change in the 1970s, when new authors began to move shojo manga from a children’s audience to an audience of teenagers and young women.
This change was implemented by a new generation of shojo manga artists known collectively as the Year 24 Groupwhose Ikeda was a member; the group received this name because its members were born around the year 24 of the era Showa (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).
