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wolf10
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 Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:41 am
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I read a few chapters of the manga and have to agree Rose King would be pretty hard to adapt traditionally. Half the impact of any given page is from typesetting! What are they supposed to do, show everyone's lines on screen? The resulting show is an overambitious mess, but it's about overly ambitious people, and that's strangely fitting.
Richard's gender stuff will probably be the make-or-break point for most viewers, but I have concluded that going into a series walls-up expecting some sort of horrifying, regressive nonsense (and finding basically none of it, not that I'm an expert) is infinitely preferable to getting blindsided by it in a series that by all rights should have been totally inoffensive.
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CGesange
Joined: 01 Feb 2022
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 2:45 pm
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The article describes one of the characters as an "androgynous shade of Joan of Arc". The real Joan of Arc was certainly not androgynous, since she always called herself "the maiden" ("la pucelle") which is definitely feminine, and the eyewitnesses described her as "beautiful and shapely" and similar phrases. Of course, Richard III wasn't intersex either (as far as we know).
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yeehaw
Joined: 09 Sep 2018
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 2:58 pm
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| CGesange wrote: | | The article describes one of the characters as an "androgynous shade of Joan of Arc". The real Joan of Arc was certainly not androgynous, since she always called herself "the maiden" ("la pucelle") which is definitely feminine, and the eyewitnesses described her as "beautiful and shapely" and similar phrases. Of course, Richard III wasn't intersex either (as far as we know). |
They never said the real Jeanne was like that. It's how she is in the show
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yeehaw
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:14 pm
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This show is bonkers and I love it. I love how baby Richard looks like gegege no kitarou, I love how Edward and Margaret just hates their loser dad/husband because he cries too much, I love how Richard hates himself but is basically a harem protagonist, I love Anne and Edward spending their wedding night discussing who loves Richard the most and which one of them that makes gay, I loved Catesbys face when he realized Richard did not know his new friend was the same Henry he wants to kill. I love how they put a goddamn yuka-don in a story based on shakespeare, I love Henry spending the entire show wanting to live forever with Richard and then banishing him to the friend-zone the second Richard realizes he's in love. It's great. I love it. We need more dramatic stuff like this animated.
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Gina Szanboti
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 5:51 pm
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Oh gods, I hadn't realized Warwick was also a Richard. Jeezus, England, there are more than four names for boys!
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KitKat1721
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:46 pm
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I consider myself at least fairly familiar with a lot of Shakespeare's works, including the ones Requiem is inspired by. But even after I watched a few episodes, I decided I'm going to wait to marathon this dubbed (fyi for editors since the "Mother" screencap early in the article reminded me even if it was more for the joke - if you're looking for a screenshot without subs, double check if it's been dubbed). This definitely felt like the type of series that could be helped by both in terms of remembering everyone and their affiliations.
Also love that Rose of Versailles was brought up because YES - if you love even a hint of the melodrama, complicated characters, and theatrics present in Requiem of the Rose King - you'd be doing yourself a disservice not checking out Versailles. Its aged so incredibly well and the pacing is downright perfect for the scope of its story.
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NobaraBG
Joined: 05 Jan 2022
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 8:29 pm
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| yeehaw wrote: | | This show is bonkers and I love it. I love how baby Richard looks like gegege no kitarou, I love how Edward and Margaret just hates their loser dad/husband because he cries too much, I love how Richard hates himself but is basically a harem protagonist, I love Anne and Edward spending their wedding night discussing who loves Richard the most and which one of them that makes gay, I loved Catesbys face when he realized Richard did not know his new friend was the same Henry he wants to kill. I love how they put a goddamn yuka-don in a story based on shakespeare, I love Henry spending the entire show wanting to live forever with Richard and then banishing him to the friend-zone the second Richard realizes he's in love. It's great. I love it. We need more dramatic stuff like this animated. |
I love this comment so much. Sums up my own feelings perfectly!
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ShinraDog
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:41 am
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I really love this show! I don't care much about its animation issues or low budget. When I was a kid, a lot of shows were low budget, like Utena or Violinist of Hameln, and I still enjoyed them. So it doesn't bother me much as long as it has a great story, and this show definitely does. I love all the drama. I love Henry and Richard's relationship. I think this show might be my personal anime of the year.
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Mami-kouga
Joined: 19 Jan 2021
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:23 pm
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| ShinraDog wrote: | | I really love this show! I don't care much about its animation issues or low budget. When I was a kid, a lot of shows were low budget, like Utena or Violinist of Hameln, and I still enjoyed them. So it doesn't bother me much as long as it has a great story, and this show definitely does. I love all the drama. I love Henry and Richard's relationship. I think this show might be my personal anime of the year. |
I would say that while Utena had a lot of stock footage and a few episode dips, it's not what I would describe as low budget having watched it recently, and especially not compared to this show.
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