Works that have referenced The Rose of Versailles.
Anime and Manga
- Berserk itself takes heavy inspiration from The Rose of Versailles despite being a very different kind of series from the latter (creator Kentaro Miura was an admitted fan of Berubara), with Griffith being a Corrupted Character Copy of Oscar for one.
- An episode of the manga comedy Dash Kappei has Kappei dressed as Oscar.
- In Hamtaro, there are a pair of veterinarians that look like Oscar and Andre.
- Kageki Shoujo!! being based on the Takarazuka Revue, has main character Sarasa Watanabe who wants to play Lady Oscar in the troupe.
- One episode of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has everyone drawn as members of the cast
◊ during one of Iino's Imagine Spots. And in a bit of subtle foreshadowing, her eventual Love Interest Ishigami has swapped places with Andre. - Lupin III:
- The entire Red Jacket episode "Versailles Burned with Love" is an homage of The Rose of Versailles, to the point it could almost be called a Crossover; only the modern setting technically keeps it from being such, but even that gets explained. The fact that TMS Entertainment did the animation for both Shin Lupin III and Rose only makes the line tougher to determine.
- Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine introduces a subordinate to Inspector Zenigata, an effeminate young man named Oscar. The name is a shout-out to this series' main character.
- Minor character Tsubasa Yuuki from Penguindrum is a Bifauxnen whose character design stands out from everyone else's by looking as though she stepped out of a shoujo manga from the 70s. She's also an actress in a Takarazuka Revue-like troupe, referencing how The Rose of Versailles is one of the Takarazuka's most popular productions.
- Kuranosuke in Princess Jellyfish manages to trick Chieko and Jiji into thinking he's a girl raised as a boy (even he can't believe it worked) when he refers to Rose of Versailles and starts dressing as Oscar.
- Azusa Shiratori from Ranma ½ has a habit of stealing objects she thinks are cute and naming them after characters from The Rose of Versailles, such as "Rosalie", "Fersen" and "Marie Antoinette". This is more obvious in the anime, where she's shown stealing and naming more objects than she does in the manga; one episode has her kidnap Genma while he's in his panda form and rename him Oscar, while dressing him up in full Oscar cosplay.
- The looks of Saint Seiya character Lizard Misty are explicitly based on Oscar's.
- Yoshino in Silver Spoon uses The Rose of Versailles to study French.
- An episode of the Time Bokan series Itadakiman, has an Expy of Oscar who is a Straw Feminist that hate all the men and turn in a monster toward the end. Her entire kingdom is similar to France and the Japanese name is a malapropism of Versailles.
- In Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, it's revealed that Tomo's mother Akemi played the part of Andre for a School Play of The Rose of Versailles.
- In the first chapter of Twittering Birds Never Fly, Yashiro sings a lyric from the anime's ending theme ("you are the light, I am the shadow,") to himself when thinking about Kuga, the man that his First Love, Kageyama, has chosen.
- The students in Wandering Son put on a play of The Rose of Versailles, which also makes numerous references to the Takarazuka Revue's stage production of the story.
Live-Action Television
- Haken no Oscar is about a woman who's a huge fan of The Rose of Versailles, and when the vice-president of the company she works at introduces ridiculous cost-cutting measures, she's inspired to fight back against him thanks to thinking of Oscar.
Video Games
- In Shin Megami Tensei IV one of the characters talks about a manga set in the fictional kingdom of France with a female protagonist who is a warrior dressed as a man and falls in love with her faithful companion. Later Oscar is even referenced by name.
Webcomics
- Sister Oscar from Sister Claire is very obviously inspired by Oscar herself, right down to the name and blonde hair.
