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Making History: The Rose of Versailles

I'll have to try that for LoGH; I'm always so wary about streaming and downloading since my last computer crashed due to a malware from a manga site. I'll just have to be careful and brandish my security software

As for the RoV fansubs, encoders work with what they get. Maybe all they had available were some LDrips, it's not like they intentionally made the series look bad to piss fans off.

Napier pointed to the main character Oscar as being a major asset to the series, saying, “The cross-dressing young woman would become the series' most important protagonist, eclipsing even Marie Antoinette. Although there had been cross dressing manga protagonists previously, (the most famous being the heroine of Tezuka Osamu's Princess Knight series), Oscar was a truly complex and three-dimensional figure who offered young Japanese women a different kind of role model from the traditional demure and subdued idea of Japanese womanhood. Oscar went on to spawn a long line of feisty cross dressing heroines, the most famous of whom is probably Utena of the popular Revolutionary Girl Utena series.”

I would assume getting the manga has licensed will depend a lot on the sales of the anime.

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But I am really liking the sound of Viki becoming a streaming site for classic series. Although I love that CR has become a legal streaming site, one of the things I miss about it before it became legal was it was a great place to watch classic anime. In fact I am pretty sure that is where I originally watched Rose of Versailles.

Is there still no chance of getting the already-made French dub?

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I'm not too well versed in how to judge the 'quality' of video (I understand desaturation of color, dirty film=crackling sound, etc. but I'm no expert) but if anyone took the chance to license this series, I would gladly purchase any, if not all, of the films & OVAs from the LOGH series. Fansubs did introduce the series to me (I'm grateful) but I want an actual copy. I would import from Japan but...well...$$$

Is there still no chance of getting the already-made French dub?

I hope that the DVD release comes in lovely boxes with some good supplementary material. Some of the things mentioned in this article, such as the series' effect on shōjo manga, seem like they could be good things to expand upon for inclusion with the release. The show alone will suffice, but the more the better. As I recall the booklets that came with the Revolutionary Girl Utena release were translations from material that had come with the Japanese release. Does anybody know if The Rose of Versailles gotten similarly luxurious treatment in Japan? I'm afraid that I'm not really up on knowing that kind of thing.
I am looking unreasonably forward to this.

varmintx wrote:

Is there still no chance of getting the already-made French dub?

It's on DVD in French-Canada. Amazon.ca link

varmintx wrote:

Is there still no chance of getting the already-made French dub?

That I'll will LOVE to hear (unless the French dub surprisingly blows )! Is it possible Nozomi will go the extra mile?

niastyle wrote:

Cannot begin to say how utterly disappointed I am that Rose of Versailles will not be dubbed. I already have a subbed version of the series, and love it to death. As I would watch it, I would dream of the day when I could watch, and truly enjoy it in english. (I hate subtitles) I was so ecstatic when I heard Rose was licensed. I even did a happy dance. But now I'm doing the disappointed shuffle, since my dream of seeing it in english has been killed forever.

While not as disappointing as Emma never getting dubbed (I should hope the reason is obvious), yeah, I wish it was as well. But, I'm a realist, and the fact that it got licensed at all is more than I ever expected.

Is there still no chance of getting the already-made French dub?