History VisualNovel / RoseGunsDays

* Season 3 started in September 2013 in the ''Gangan Online''. It is drawn by You Oomura.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Even in this setting, DouglasMacArthur is still the Supreme Commander of the American occupation army. Film director Creator/EliaKazan also makes an appearance in a rather weird digression about the RedScare in the US in Season 3.

Other completed manga adaptations include a two-volume spin-off called ''Aishū no Cross Knife'' ("My Beloved Cross Knife"), published in the Big Gangan, which takes place in 1946 and focuses on Wayne Uedera, with a [[DarkerAndEdgier generally darker tone.]] Another two-volume prologue titled ''Fukushū wa ōgon no kaori'' ("Revenge has the fragrance of gold") was published in Kōdansha's ''Monthly Shonen Sirius'' and takes place before Rose effectively became the Madam.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: In the VN it's not too obvious, as the gunfights are in mini-game form and, well, it's a VN so the images are static. In the manga however, Alfred and Caleb's henchmen somehow manage to not hit Leo even after emptying entire magazines. At a 5-meter distance. As he is ''just standing there idly.'' Either they use toy guns, or Leo is actually [[TheMatrix Neo]].

* PyrrhicVictory: Magnificently subverted in 1948. At first the writing can give the impression [[spoiler:it's a superb victory for Primavera who defeated Wang against all odds… before you realize that they gained pretty much nothing in the conflict and sacrificed almost every assets they had to only ''limit the damage''. Not only is it pyrrhic, it's not even a victory; only choosing the lesser evil.]]

* RepetitiveName: Leo '''Shishi'''gami[[note]]"leo" and "shishi" are the Latin and Japanese words for "lion", respectively[[/note]] and Rose Hai'''bara'''[[note]]"bara" is Japanese for "rose", though the kanji used in her name is different[[/note]]. Probably justified, since Leo and Rose aren't their birth names (their real names are Koutarou and [[spoiler:Misaki]], respectively).

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: After Kasumi, Amakusa, young Kinzo and [[spoiler:Kyrie]], the series seems to perpetuate the pattern with Alfred, Caleb and Gabriel. In a 07th Expansion story, if you have naturally white hair, chances are you're a bastard of some degree.

* TimeSkip: The story is divided in 4 years (from 1947 to 1950), with a time jump in the middle of each Season after the first. The Seasons in the manga, somewhat more logically, follow the time jumps though. It's likely that the author had originally planned a "1 season = 1 year structure" but Season 1 ended up being too long, so he had to go for mid-Season time skips instead.

* TimeSkip: The story is divided in 4 years (from 1947 to 1950), with a time jump in the middle of each Season after the first. The Seasons in the manga, somewhat more logically, follow the time jumps though.

[[http://witch-hunt.com/ Witch Hunt]], the translation team behind 07th Expansion's previous work ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', provides an English translation of the games. The demo can be found [[http://www.witch-hunt.com/stage_rgd_demo.html here]]. The Last Season was released in January 2014, with the current English patch covering the first 2 Seasons and the 1948 part of Season 3.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed. While the Season 1 manga keeps a good balance and removes mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 2 and 3 mangas suffer from some CompressedAdaptation issues − like the "War of Soy Sauce" completely disapearing in 1948, despite being an important part of Rose's CharacterDevelopment in the VN.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed. While the Season 1 manga keeps a good balance and removes mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 2 and 3 mangas suffer from some CompressedAdaptation issues − like the "War of Soyce Sauce" completely disapearing in 1948, despite being an important part of Rose's CharacterDevelopment in the VN.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed. While the Season 1 manga keeps a good balance and removes mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 2 and 3 mangas suffer from some CompressedAdaptation issues (like the "War of Soyce Sauce" completely disapearing in 1948, despite being an important part of Rose's CharacterDevelopment).

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed, or the issue of soy sauce completely disapearing in 1948. While the Season 1 and 2 mangas keep a good balance and remove mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 3 manga suffers from some CompressedAdaptation issues.

* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie:]] This is surprisingly the case in 1949, where [[spoiler:Stella, Yūji, Oliver and Meixue all die in the span of 3 chapters.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: Whenever the heroes have a gunfight in 1947 and 1948, you will find nary a mention of blood [[NeverSayDie or anyone being dead]], even though there is little else a gunfight can produce. However this is sharply averted on several occasions in 1949 and 1950.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed. While the Season 1 and 2 mangas keep a good balance and remove mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 3 manga suffers from some CompressedAdaptation issues.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the manga, most fight scenes are shortened or outright removed. The dialogues and exploration of City 23 are also kept to a minimum, keeping only the core of the plot and giving the story a much faster pace overall; which can lead to some surprising choices, like [[DiscOneFinalBoss the meeting and fight between Leo and Alfred]] in Season 1 being purely and simply axed. While the Season 1 manga keeps a good balance and removes mostly superfluous scenes, the Season 3 manga suffers from some CompressedAdaptation issues.

Obviously not to be confused with ''GunsNRoses''.

!!Rose Guns Days contains examples of:

Please note that in the VN, the story is divided both in 4 seasons (1, 2, 3, Last) and 4 years (1947, 48, 49, 50), but the two ''don't'' coincide. Season 2 covers the end of 1947 and the first half of 1948 for example.

In the manga however, a Season covers a full year alright.

* Season 1 started in September 2012 and ended in March 2014 in the ''Gangan Joker''. It was drawn by Sōichirō, who already worked on the manga adaptation of ''[[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Alliance of the Golden Witch]]''.

* GenreBusting: It's part FilmNoir, part slice-of-life, part political drama, and part… ''something''. While it is far from the {{Mind Screw}}y DeconstructorFleet ''{{Umineko}}'' was, the work is still hard to classify, especially considering its rather schizophrenic tone.

* GunPorn: This ''is'' a story about mafia after all. The preparation of the 1947 climax is the most notable example though. Between this work and ''{{Umineko}}'', Ryūkishi seems to like researching on guns, especially [[{{BFG}} heavy ones.]]

** [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi The Castiglioni family]] are in charge of city 7.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The cause of pretty much all the events in the Last Season with [[spoiler:Richard and Keith mistakenly believing that the Chinese mafia was behind the death of Stella and Yūji, while the true mastermind was Gabriel.]] Interestingly though, that's not really the focus of the narrative, which insists more on them losing their mind than the target of their vengeance being the wrong one. Incidentally, [[spoiler:the truth isn't exposed until ''after'' everything is finished, and it's only quickly glossed over.]]

* FictionalCurrency: Japanese Dollars and Japanese Yuan.

Other completed manga adaptations include a two-volume spin-off called ''Aishū no Cross Knife'' ("My Beloved Cross Knife"), published in the Big Gangan, which takes place in 1946 and focuses on Wayne Uedera, with a [[DarkerAndEdgier generally darker tone.]] A one-volume prologue titled ''Fukushū wa ōgon no kaori'' ("Revenge has the fragrance of gold") was published in Kōdansha's ''Monthly Shonen Sirius'' and takes place before Rose effectively became the Madam.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Despite having a protagonist who starts as a WideEyedIdealist and having part of its message built around the protection of the future generations, the work can be quite cynical about how the world works, as well as very critical of some aspects of the Japanese mentality, be it through the narration, the voice of Chinese characters or the voice of Rose herself.

** The character sheets on the official site are chock-full of call-backs to WhenTheyCry, with Meryl hating pumpkin like Satoko, Maurice Monobe's hobby being gardening or James Tomitake liking nurse outfits, among others.