Alternative Titles: Rose of Versailles / Versailles no Bara / ベルサイユのばら
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.
The story couldn’t have been better, it picked up historical facts prior the French Revolution and went along history to the beginning of the revolution covering a span of 20 years. It started using the shoujo formula of “newcomer female arrives and gets picked by older already established female at the place”, but it goes beyond its shoujo standards, not only because of the historical facts that the story cleverly went to use but also by the excellent characters that it had and their no lesser excellent character developments. The author had a good use on the critic of the society of the 17th century, especially the aristocracy problem. Having watched Legend of Galactic Heroes prior to ROV, and ROV being older than LOGH, I get amazed at how the aristocratic situations and characters could have been the same on both anime, of course discarding the sci-fi universe of LOGH on this. Perhaps dare I say, that LOGH, author or director went to get direct inspiration from the clever aristocratic issues of ROV to display on LOGH..
The music is perfect for the anime, it was competent and good. I’m hearing the OST as I write and it does have very powerful songs. I especially loved the 70s tunes that it had which only the 70s could create. Of course the classical ones were also very good, some helped greatly on setting the mood of some special scenes and when that happens it is because the OST is good.
Opening Theme: "Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru" by Hiroko Suzuki
Ending Theme: "Ai no Hikari to Kage" by Hiroko Suzuki
Versailles no Bara Original Soundtrack
Catalog
No. KTCR-1286
Release Date: Sep 24, 1994
01 Bara wa utsukushiku chiru (Opening song) //
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02 Jounetsu no akai bara (Drama with Oscar & Andre)
03 Ai yue no kanashimi
04 Magical rose
05 Hoshi ni naru futari
06 Uruwashiki hito yo! (Drama with Marie Antoinette)
07 Watashi wa torawarebito
08 Yasashisa no okuri mono (instrumental)
09 Ai no hikari to kage (Ending song) //
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10 Bara wa utsukushiku chiru (Opening song - TV Size)
11 Versailles no asa - Oscar no tanjou - Tokiyo no nagare
12 Uruwashiki hito yo! (instrumental)
13 Kyuutei no joukei - Fanfaria - Rekishiteki - Butoukai
14 Ai no kokuhaku - Shock - Kanashimi M4
15 Rekishiteki C - Ugomeku imbou - Musubareta juujou
16 Hensou A - Amaku kanashiku nagarete - Shock F
17 Kakumei M3 - Shi no jokan
18 Tatakai- Hensou B - Wakare
19 Yasuragi no toki - Tokiyo nagare B
20 Ai no hikari to kage (Ending song - TV-Size)
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