The Rose of Versailles

Links

Rose of Versailles Web Pages

     The international following for The Rose of Versailles has resulted in Web pages in several nations and languages. It is now possible to obtain rough translations of these pages into other languages using Alta Vista's Babelfish utility. Unfortunately, Japanese translation is not yet available.

Araya:Berubara Land

An excellent page with images, analysis, and manga translations.

Kim's Home Page

This Hong Kong fan has a nice page with a good image gallery.

Tina's Berubara's Shrine

Includes an excellent section on the manga, with many scans.

The Andre Grandier's Shrine

Focuses on Andre, with a lavishly illustrated overview of the anime.

Berusaiyu no Bara: The Lady Oscar Web Site

Information, pictures, and multimedia.

Destiny of Roses

Has several interesting articles by the author.

Rose of Versailles Homepage

With manga synopsis and a large image and art gallery.

Berusaiyu no Bara Manga Page

Focuses on lesser-known facts on the manga.

Divine Rose

One fan's tribute to the series.

Cafe Jarjayes

A Rose of Versailles discussion page.

Versailles Dreams New Millennium

A fanfic page devoted to The Rose of Versailles

KAEL on Rose of Versailles

An essay reviewing the anime series

Animerica - Utena vs. Oscar

An article from Animerica discussing similarities between Revolutionary Girl Utena and The Rose of Versailles

Cyber Namida - Lady Oscar

An extensive essay on the series, available in both French and English. He discusses the series, its symbolism, and the live action film, which he has little good to say about.
Warning: contains spoilers for the end of the series.

Revolution

Another French page.

A Japanese page with some English sections.

A Chinese page.

Another Chinese page.

Wilde Rose

Lady Oscar

An Italian page with considerable information on the anime series and even a mailing list!

Berubara il sito delle rose

An Italian page with an excellent image gallery.

La Pagina di Lady Oscar

La Rose di Versailles (Dedicato a Lady Oscar)

Ladyoscar @ AlterVista.org

More excellent Italian pages.

Other Links of Interest

     The Canadian anime fanzine Protoculture Addicts has presented a spotlight on The Rose of Versailles in issue #45. It has an overview, a character guide, a synopsis for each of the series' 40 episodes, and also shortly presents the manga, the Takarazuka theatre adaptation, and the live-action movie as well as three essays by fans.

     Rene-Gilles Deberdt's webzine Cyber Namida has many articles on anime and manga, in both French and English.

     If you would like to learn more about shoujo manga, there is no better place to begin than the The Matt Thorn Page which has an indepth study of this Japanese literary form.

     There is also The Ring of Manga Classics for pages on The Rose of Versailles and other older mangas.

     Fredrick Schodt has written a new book for Stone Bridge Press on Japanese manga, titled Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. It's a collection of short illustrated essays, with chapters on issues in modern manga, manga magazines, artists and their works, Osamu Tezuka, manga and other media, and manga in the English-speaking world. 340 pages (8 color pages) with B & W illustrations throughout.