‘Versailles no Bara’ Anime Movie Reveals Main Cast, Staff, Second Teaser Trailer, Spring 2025 Premiere

The official website for the anime movie adaptation of Riyoko Ikeda’s Versailles no Bara (The Rose of Versailles) manga revealed on Tuesday the main staff, cast, key visual (pictured), and a second teaser trailer. The anime is scheduled to open in theaters in early Spring 2025.

Cast

Oscar François de Jarjayes: Miyuki Sawashiro (Lupin III series)

Marie Antoinette: Aya Hirano (Fairy Tail)

André Grandier: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Yuri!!! on Ice)

Hans Axel von Fersen: Kazuki Kato (B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious)

Staff

Director: Ai Yoshimura (Ao Haru Ride, Kabukichou Sherlock)

Script: Tomoko Konparu (Kimi ni Todoke, Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi)

Character Design: Mariko Oka (Jigoku Shoujo, Hatsukoi Monster)

Music: Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin, Ore dake Level Up na Ken), Kotha Yamamoto (Mato Seihei no Slave, 86)

Music Producer: Hiroyuki Sawano

Studio: MAPPA

Distribution: Avex Pictures, TOHO NEXT

The historical drama manga was serialized in Weekly Margaret from 1972–1973 and compiled into ten volumes from 1972 to 1974. Shueisha later reprinted it in 10 bunkoban volumes from 1977 to 1978. Ikeda serialized a four-volume side story between April 2013 and February 2018. Versailles no Bara sold a cumulative 20 million copies of its volumes.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha produced a 40-episode television anime that from Fall 1979 to Summer 1980. The Seimei Aru Kagiri Aishite (I’ll Love You As Long As I Live) compilation movie premiered in May 1990.

Udon Entertainment licensed the manga in English in July 2015 and published it in five omnibus volumes from February 2020 and April 2021. Right Stuf licensed the television anime under its Nozomi Entertainment label in September 2012 and released it on two DVD volumes in May and July the following year. Discotek Media reacquired the anime and released it in two Blu-ray volumes in April and June of last year.

Teaser Trailer 2

Source: Comic Natalie