Rose of Versailles (Via Japan)

In which we discuss Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda!  We talk about a brief history of shojo and a little of manga in general.  We also discuss the long reach of this book's influence.  It's time for court intrigue and swordplay!

We're in the double digits, baby!  Our 10th episode and we fly outside the borders of America.  That's right.  For all y'all out there wishing we'd do something from another country, here it is!  We'll likely be doing more.  How could you ignore Japan??  Also, we won't just be visiting Japan as comics exist around the world!  Anyway, feel free to hit us up at the social medias.  Plus, if you're getting this episode from some podcast service, please rate us and comment there!  Our soc meds as follows:

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Phil here:  Su did the research for this particular episode and boy can you tell!  I took a look at her resources and it was like a mile long!  I usually have just a few links plus some books to recommend so there can be some leisure in my descriptions.  Not so much today.  I'm gonna just throw 'em down!  Aside from the obvious look at Wikipedia, they are as follows:

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1480887

https://web.archive.org/web/20070219032133/http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/index.html

https://fractionoffiction.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/a-history-of-shoujo-manga/

https://www.animefeminist.com/history-shoujo-mangas-lost-generation/

https://epicstream.com/features/The-History-and-Importance-of-Girls-Manga

https://www.yuricon.com/oldessays/10-minute-shoujo-history-lesson/

http://www.danmazurcomics.com/2014/02/28/comics-a-global-history-early-shojo-manga/

https://theanimeacademy.wordpress.com/lecture-hall/anime-101/history-of-shoujo-anime/

https://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/researchlab/wp/wp-content/uploads/sa_dalma_kalovics1.pdf

http://umich.edu/~anime/genres_shoujo.html

https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12324/7/12324.pdf

Good Gravy.  Anyway, here's the book we read!

Rose of Versailles vol 1 (Published by Udon)