Wrapping up our section on Ikeda’s influence, let’s look at two series made in the 2000s, Ouran High School Host Club and Haken no Osukaru, and how they lovingly play with Ikeda’s work.
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Posts Tagged ‘Oscar de Jarjeyes’
The Sparkling World of 1970s Shojo Manga, Part 8: Riyoko Ikeda and The Influence of The Rose of Versailles, 2000s
Posted in Anime, Gender, Media, tagged Haken no Oscar, Oscar de Jarjeyes, Ouran High School Host Club, shojo, 派遣のオスカル on 2016/09/27| 2 Comments »
BeruBara Stickers for LINE
Posted in BeruBara (The Rose of Versailles), Manga, tagged Andre Grandier, BeruBara, LINE, manga, Marie Antoinette, messaging, Oscar, Oscar de Jarjeyes, Riyoko Ikeda, stamp, sticker, The Rose of Versailles on 2013/04/13| 2 Comments »
My favorite part of using the “global messaging service” LINE is being able to chat with my friends for free even if they use another carrier or are in another country. A close second is the “sticker” (スタンプ [stamp] in Japanese) function, which are basically bigger and better emoji. On April 11, LINE released 5 new paid sets of stickers, including a BeruBara (The Rose of Versailles) set:
Image from LINE
The BeruBara stamps/stickers were 199 yen. Some of my favorites are below the cut.
Character, Control and Confession: The Theme of Love in The Rose of Versailles, Part 3
Posted in BeruBara (The Rose of Versailles), Culture, Gender, Translation, tagged Andre Grandier, BeruBara, Oscar de Jarjeyes, Rose of Versailles on 2010/08/11| 25 Comments »
Part 3: “Who Wants to Live Forever?”
Read Part 1 here.
Read Part 2 here.
Andre’s prior confession to Oscar demonstrated the loss of control for love trope Ikeda has established, but the purpose of the scene was to show Andre’s mental anguish and instability rather than to prove to Oscar how much he loves her. The main theme of love in the latter half of the manga still relies on loss of reservation as proof of love, but when this trope results in a successful confession of love, it is because Oscar and Andre have begun to see themselves as equals, bringing in a new and complex element to the love story which sets it apart from many other shoujo manga.
Character, Control and Confession: The Theme of Love in The Rose of Versailles, Part 1
Posted in BeruBara (The Rose of Versailles), Culture, Gender, Translation, tagged Andre Grandier, ベルサイユのバラ, BeruBara, Ikeda Riyoko, love, Oscar de Jarjeyes, The Rose of Versailles, Translation on 2010/07/09| 18 Comments »
Character, Control and Confession: A Three-Part Look at the Theme of Love in The Rose of Versailles
For summaries of the basic plot of The Rose of Versailles, see Deborah Shamoon’s article “Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga” in Mechademia 2 (2007): 3-18 and my article “Japanese Dramas Take on Gender Norms.”
To read Part 2, click here.
To read Part 3, click here.
Part 1: “Love Hurts”
A major theme of the Oscar-Andre love story in Ikeda Riyoko’s (1972-3) ベルサイユのバラBerusaiyu no Bara (The Rose of Versailles) is the loss of control of one’s emotions. In the events leading up to the pair’s (finally) becoming lovers, there are three major points at which one of the characters completely loses control of his or her emotions, risking everything in the process. While risking it all for love (cue the ’80s and ’90s pop ballads) is certainly not an uncommon theme in romantic stories, in BeruBara, the themes manifests in such a way that the act of being completely overrun by one’s emotions is the ultimate symbol of love. However, literary symbols do not exist in a vacuum; the idea of love driving a person to lose all logic and reason ties in very strongly into to Japanese and American cultural depictions of love. Thus, in this series of articles, I aim to explore this trope as it functions in BeruBara and in other media.
Japanese Dramas Take on Gender Norms
Posted in Culture, Gender, Media, tagged オトメン, ベルばら, Gender, gender non-conformity, Haken no Oscar, haken no osukaru, herbivore men, heteronormativity, Japanese drama, Oscar de Jarjeyes, Otomen, sex vs gender, The Rose of Versailles, 派遣のオスカル, 乙男 on 2009/11/06| 11 Comments »
Doctor Heteronormative would be a BITCHIN name for the main villain dude.
-Jeph Jacques
With all the talk of herbivore men, pushy women, and linguistic gender-screwups in the air lately, the summer-fall season of Japanese dramas has been surprisingly supportive of non-conformity to the heteronormative cultural expressions of gender.* In particular, I’ve been really impressed with「派遣のオスカル」Haken no Oscar, which translates to something like Lady Oscar Works Temp or Lady Oscar, Temp Worker, and 「オトメン 乙男」Otomen, which doesn’t really translate so well (more on this later).
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