Line #6 YMMV/TheRoseOfVersailles


1	* AlasPoorScrappy: [[spoiler:Charlotte]]. Wince at her bratty and spoiled behavior. [[spoiler:'''Weep''' at her suicide.]]
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Take a book on comics, any book, and it's a given that this comic will be named as an example for outstanding page layout.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening and the ending songs. The OST of the entire series as a whole also count.
4	* CultClassic: In the Anglophone retro anime fandom. Emphasis on ''classic''.
5	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
6	** ''Very'' popular in Italy and France (the latter's really obvious thanks to its setting being the French Revolution, aka ''the'' French historical event). Ikeda even got the Legion d'Honneur for her work, the highest possible honor a foreigner could receive in France and other honors from Italian otaku fans and Italy's government.
7	** In Italy, the series is practically in the same league with ''Manga/LupinIII'', ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', and ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' in fame and its popularity is such that it still receives re-runs on local channels in the country (something that the above aforementioned anime did not receive for a while until recent remakes and sequel {{OVA}}s and series with the exception of ''Lupin III'' and ''Hokuto No Ken''). It is also the [[https://antoniogenna.com/2015/10/20/nipponica-61-lady-oscar-le-rose-di-versailles/ most published shojo manga there]].
8	** It's a CultClassic in Latin America.
9	* GenreTurningPoint: The manga single-handedly proved that shoujo manga with complex plots and deep characterization could be successful; beforehand, most shoujo manga were simple stories for elementary school girls, but ''Berubara'''s appeal to teenage girls and grown women brought it a great deal of critical and commercial success.
10	* HilariousInHindsight:
11	** The manga's version of [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Louis Antoine de Saint-Just]] is [[DudeLooksLikeALady so feminine]] in appearance that Oscar, upon seeing him in uniform, assumes he's a SweetPollyOliver. Ikeda's later manga ''Manga/DearBrother'' featured a {{Bifauxnen}} nicknamed "Hana no Saint-Just".
12	** This becomes one for fanfiction, as the popular English fic ''Memories'' involves Oscar's reincarnation, Françoise, [[PastLifeMemories to have dreams of her and the events of the original series]], as well as being haunted by Oscar in her waking hours during the second half. Françoise even refers to Oscar as her doppelgänger. Several years after the fic was completed, a story about Oscar meeting her [[MirrorSelf ghostly double]], for completely different reasons, gets published.
13	* JerkassWoobie: Charlotte de Polignac is shown as a total SpoiledBrat in her first scenes. The BreakTheCutie process that follows [[spoiler:and finishes with her suicide]] is legendary.
14	* MoralEventHorizon:
15	** Jeanne [[spoiler:having Nicolas whip [[TheWoobie Rosalie]] to force her out of the noble mansion she was living in... then manipulating him into killing the kind woman who took her in AND burning down her house so she could become the heir.]]
16	** Anime!Saint-Just the Nobility SerialKiller [[spoiler: planned to kill a Duke ''and'' his wife and child brutally, just to send a message.]]
17	** Henri de Guemene [[spoiler: killing a street urchin merely for robbing him.]] Specially despite [[spoiler: Rosalie]]'s desperate tries to get him to spare the victim.
18	** Polignac (in the anime), when she [[spoiler:subjects the mentally fragile Rosalie to psychological abuse, deception and eventually [[ScarpiaUltimatum blackmail]] in order to force her to leave Oscar and join her family.]] Made doubly worse by the later revelation that she [[spoiler:intends to marry her off to a ''very'' creepy man whose attentions caused her ''other'' daughter to ''commit suicide''.]] Also, she [[EvilGloating gloats sadistically]] once [[spoiler:Rosalie]] is broken and caves in to her demands:
19	--->'''Polignac:''' [[spoiler:Now, Rosalie, call me "Mother"! EvilLaugh]]
20	** Hebért crosses it when he accuses Marie Antoinette of [[ParentalIncest molesting her son Louis-Charles]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Saint-Just and Robespierre were disgusted]].
21	* NarmCharm: Oh boy, is the anime full of it. From the frequent use of the PastelChalkedFreezeFrame to the melodramatic CallMyName, this show was the trope setter for a lot of the devices you find in "girls" anime today. The fact that it's a late '70s show speaks for itself. Still, it manages to be quite moving.
22	* NauseaFuel:
23	** UsefulNotes/LouisXV has such a severe case of smallpox that before he dies, ''parts of his skull get exposed''.
24	** [[spoiler:Diane de Soissons']] decomposing body in the manga. The anime version is a good deal tamer.
25	* NightmareFuel: Now with its [[NightmareFuel/TheRoseOfVersailles own page]].
26	* OneSceneWonder: UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte has only one speaking appearance and a non-speaking one. He still leaves one hell of an impression, managing to unsettle Oscar just by being in the same room as her.
27	* TheScrappy: Rosalie was considered this by Japanese fans when the manga was first serialized; she was meant to be a NaiveEverygirl that the target demographic could relate to, but she proved to be unpopular with readers (especially compared to [[BreakoutCharacter Oscar]]). As a result, she was gradually [[DemotedToExtra written out of the plot]], having very few appearances after the Black Knight arc until near the end of the story.
28	* TearJerker: My God, this series is INFAMOUS for the heart-wretching moments. See the [[TearJerker/TheRoseOfVersailles series' Tear-Jerker page]] for details.
29	* TransAudienceInterpretation: Due to being [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender raised as a boy]] and having very few problems with taking on a masculine role despite being female (and later having conflicted feelings about being made to "go back" to being a woman when her father attempts to set up an ArrangedMarriage for her), there are some fans who like to interpret Oscar as transmasculine or non-binary.
30	* TheWoobie: Some of the characters, like Oscar and Andre have their moments. Rosalie takes the cake, though: [[spoiler:her foster mother dies, her sister turns out to be a ''huge'' SpoiledBrat who later went mad and died in the worst way possible, not to mention her sister's terrible death started the chain of the whole events and so on...]] God, the girl seriously needs a hug.

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