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Versailles no Bara

Also known as Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.



Tags: Historical , Royal Affairs , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Foreign , Military , Politics , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Ojou-sama , Primarily Adult Cast , Gender Bending , Swordplay , Tomboy , War , Philosophy , Time Skip , Suicide , Terrorism , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Maids , Heterosexual , Religion , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Also known as Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , TV Tokyo , The Right Stuf International , Central Park Media , Yomiuri Advertising , SoftX
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Romance

Just after Utena's parents died, she was consoled by a prince who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. Utena was so impressed by the Prince that she vowed to become one herself one day. A few years later, Utena is attending Ohtori Academy where she gives all the teachers headaches because she dresses in a boy's uniform so she can be like the prince she met long ago.

After Utena's friend is insulted by a member of the Student Council, Utena fights in a duel for her friend's honor. Utena's rose crest allows her to enter the dueling arena, where Utena wins the duel and becomes engaged to the Rose Bride. Unknowingly, Utena is pulled into a series of duels with other members of the Student Council for the possession of the Rose Bride. As she becomes fond of Anthy, the Rose Bride, she must fight to keep her friend safe and to discover the horrifying secret behind Ohtori Academy.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Fairy Tale , Incest , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Yuri , Swordplay , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Witch , Time Manipulation , Orphan , Age Gap , Surreal Comedy , Cars , School , Unrequited Love , Conspiracy , Memory Manipulation , Fencing , Henshin , Ojou-sama , Meta , Boarding School , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Episodic , Magic , Bullying , Kuudere , Cheating , Shoujo , Time Loop , Denpa , Twins , Astronomy , Suicide , Athletics , Boys' Love , Politics , Aliens , Body Swapping

Sasurai no Shoujo Nell

Also known as Nell the Wandering Girl.

Studio: DAX Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Nell is a young girl living with her grandfather, Mr Trent, the owner of a shop in London. As he couldn't payback a loan he made, he has to flee with Nell. They decide to search for Nell's mother, who is living somewhere in Great Britain...

Tags: Historical , Classic Literature

Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku

Also known as Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Central Park Media , Toei , Shogakukan , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Romance

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.



Tags: Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Swordplay , Magic , Tomboy , Philosophy , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Cars , School , Boarding School , Nudity , Twins , Kuudere , Drugs , Body Horror , Shoujo

La Seine no Hoshi

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

The story is set in Paris, on the night before the France Revolution. The civilians have been suffering under the tyrannical rule of Louis, the sixteenth. In order to release the people from their suffering, Simone, a young girl whose parents were killed by the aristocrats, decides to challenge the corrupted aristocrats. Covering her face with a red mask and leaving a red carnation as a mark of her presence, Simone is La Seine no Hoshi.



Tags: Historical , Swordplay , Foreign , Female Protagonist

Kinpatsu no Jeanie

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

During the civil war a girl living in Virginia, named Jeanie, waits for her old boyfriend Robert to marry him, according to a childish promise, but the war makes the things complicated and, Robert comes back as northerner soldier.
Only with the conflict's end, and many misadventures, their dream will become true.

Tags: Historical , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Orphan , War , Nun

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch

Studio: SynergySP , Actas
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force.

Tags: Musical Theater , Shoujo , Mermaid , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Twins , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Animals , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Surfing , Swimming , Coastal , Kuudere , Primarily Child Cast , Revenge , Fairy Tale

Le Chevalier D'Eon

Studio: Production I.G , ADV Films , Funimation , Sakura Create
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

18th Century, France. Lia de Beaumont, loyal servant of Versailles and its King, Louis XV, is found dead in the river Seine. Floating inside a coffin, on which the word "Psalms" was written, her body had been poisoned by mercury, thus preserving decay. According to the Church, the soul that belonged to a corpse incapable of being consumed by the soil will forever wander in the human realm, unable to go to Heaven. This greatly affects D'Eon de Beaumont, Lia's brother and one of the king's spies. He vows to discover by whom - and why - she was murdered. But he never expected that the one who conducting the revenge would be Lia, now possessing D'Eon's body! And what will the knight do when this quest might risk France itself? History is retold in this supernatural tale of vengeance, loyalty and betrayal.

Tags: Magic , Historical , Foreign , Tragedy , Revenge , Swordplay , Religion , Gender Bending , Crossdressing , Philosophy , Royal Affairs

Versailles no Bara Movie

Also known as The Rose of Versailles.

Studio: Avex Pictures , Shueisha , MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

Movie project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Versailles no Bara manga's publication.

Hoping to unite their countries with an alliance, The Empress of Austria arranges her daughter, the delightful yet spoiled Marie Antoinette, to marry the crown prince of France, Louis XVI. Upon arriving in Versailles, the Austrian princess meets Oscar Francois de Jarjayes, Captain of the Royal Guards—a seemingly dashing young man—but to Antoinette's astonishment, he is in fact a woman!

The youngest daughter of a noble family with a prominent lack of a male heir, Oscar was raised as a boy to continue the family's military legacy. Suffocated by the rigid rules associated with her new position and longing for companionship, Antoinette immediately takes a liking to this intriguing young woman, and wastes no time befriending her. However, as the childish new queen foolishly abuses her power, Oscar is conflicted between maintaining her loyalty to the royal family and addressing the growing concern of poverty among the common people.

Recalling the events of the French Revolution, Versailles no Bara depicts the struggles of two women unjustly burdened by family expectations. Yet, despite being forced to deny their identities at the expense of personal happiness, they march on to become key players in the annals of history.



Tags: Shoujo , Historical , Foreign , Musical Theater , Ojou-sama , Unrequited Love , Military , Tragedy , Royal Affairs , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , War , Gender Bending , Class Struggle , Swordplay , Guns , Medieval , Cheating