Netflix has announced that it will begin streaming The Rose of Versailles anime film on April 30, 2025. The film premiered in Japan on January 31, 2025.
The company began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the film. An English dub for the film will also be produced.
Ai Yoshimura (Kabukicho Sherlock) is directing the anime film, with Tomoko Konparu (Tonari no Yokai–san series screenwriter and scriptwriter) as screenwriter, Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan Final Season), and Kohta Yamamoto (Attack on Titan Final Season) as music composer. MAPPA is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime film’s main voice cast stars:
- • Miyuki Sawashiro as Oscar François de Jarjayes
- • Aya Hirano as Marie Antoinette
- • Toshiyuki Toyonaga as André Grandier
- • Kazuki Kato as Hans Axel von Fersen
- • Shunsuke Takeuchi as Alain de Soissons
- • Takuya Eguchi as Florian de Gerodelle
- • Miyu Irino as Bernard Chatelet
- • Fukushi Ochiai as Louis XVI
- • Banjo Ginga as General Jarjayes
- • Mayumi Tanaka as Maron Glacé Mont Blanc
- • Hitomi Kuroki as Narrator
The new anime film is inspired by Riyoko Ikeda’s historical romance manga of the same name. It ran in Shueisha’s Margaret magazine from May 21, 1972 to December 23, 1973 under the Margaret Comics label. Ten tankobon volumes were released in total. Udon Entertainment licensed the manga for release in English.
A revival of the manga series, The Rose of Versailles: Episodes, was released in the same magazine from 2013 to 2018. Four volumes were released in total.
The manga series previously inspired a 1979-1980 TV anime series and the 1990 anime film The Rose of Versailles: I’ll Love You As Long As I Live, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertainment).
The manga also inspired a 1979 live-action film titled Lady Oscar, a musical by the Takarazuka Revue Company, a sequel, and spin-offs. A pilot for a new anime movie was shown at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2007.
Netflix describes the main synopsis of The Rose of Versailles as:
This tale of romance and fate unfolds during the turbulent French Revolution vividly bringing to life the world of Oscar — a beautiful woman raised as a boy by a distinguished general — and an ensemble of unforgettable characters. Set in the prosperous late 18th century, they embrace their destinies with grace and beauty, despite being swept along by the times. In an era of restrictions, Oscar defies the societal limits of status and gender, choosing her own path and bravely leaping into the French Revolution.
Source: Netflix Anime Official Twitter, press release
