The production staff of the new anime film adaptation of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles manga revealed the new cast for the film on Thursday.
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The newly announced cast members are:
Image via X/Twitter of the movie Rose of Versailles
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The film's previously announced cast includes:
The film will open on January 31.
Ai Yoshimura (Daily Lives of High School Boys. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is directing the film at MAPPA. Tomoko Konparu (Ashita no Nadja, Uta no Prince-sama-Maji Love 1000%) wrote the script and Mariko Oka (First Love Monster, Hell Girl) designed the characters. Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist) is the music producer and is responsible for the music along with Kohta Yamamoto (Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, 86).
Staff describes the story:
Oscar François de Jarjayes, raised as a “son” and heir to a general's family, dresses as a beautiful woman in men's clothing. Marie Antoinette came from neighboring Austria as a bride to become a noble and graceful queen. Oscar's servant and childhood friend, commoner André Grandier. Hans Axel von Fersen, a handsome and intelligent count from Sweden. They met in Versailles, France at the end of the prosperous 18th century and lived their own destiny beautifully while being swept away by the flow of time.
Ikeda published the original manga in Shueisha's Weekly Margaret magazine from 1972 to 1973. “A story of love and fate” is set in the plot-filled palace of Queen Marie Antoinette before and during the upheavals of French Revolution. Lady Oscar is a young woman raised as a man to serve in the palace guard.
Udon Entertainment began releasing the manga in English in December 2019 and has since released the entire manga in five compilation volumes. Udon also licensed the spin-off manga The Rose of Versailles Episodes, but has not yet released the first volume.
The manga inspired the 40-episode 1979-1980 anime that Right Stuf released in North America in 2013 on two DVD sets. Discotek produced an HD remake of the series and released two volumes in 2021.
In addition to the television anime series, the manga also inspired a 1990 animated film, Takarazuka's long-running all-female musical Revue from 1974, and a 1978 French/Japanese live-action film. Recent more, DLE Inc. created licensed parody short films featuring Flash animation.
The manga inspired the game Shiritsu BeruBara Academy ~Versailles no Bara Re*imagination~ (Private BeruBara Academy: Rose of Versailles Re*imagination) by Otomate. The game released in May 2019.
Source: Press release
