'The Rose of Versailles' is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with events including an exhibition currently on in Tokyo.
"The Rose of Versailles" has been adapted for musical theatre in Japan.TOKYO - Japanese manga"The Rose of Versailles" features elaborate outfits, palace intrigues and passionate romances set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, but it also has its own revolutionary credentials.
It tells the epic tale of two main heroines, Queen Marie Antoinette and the fictional character Oscar Francois de Jarjayes, a young girl raised as a boy who becomes head of the queen's guard. The series began in a manga magazine in 1972 and has since been adapted into several musicals in Japan and an animated television series called"Lady Oscar" that was also a hit abroad, especially in France.AFP/File | SAM YEH
"It's hard to overestimate how important and influential it's been in the shojo manga genre, and in Japanese pop culture in general," said Deborah Shamoon, associate professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Japanese Studies.
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