A woman with long blond curls who grew up as a soldier alongside Queen Marie Antoinette. A few strokes are enough to awaken in everyone a feeling of nostalgia and childish affection. Lady Oscar was the protagonist of the childhood of many, thanks to the television series inspired by manga of the cartoonist Riyoko Ikeda.
A few days ago, in the station Duomo metro of Milan, all the walls are covered with the most iconic faces and scenes from Lady Oscar’s adventures. The gimmick is an advertising campaign of the fashion brand Max & Cowhich on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the manga’s release, inaugurated a capsule collection from the name #TheLadyisBack.
The French heroine, in fact, turns 50: the first release in Japan of “Roses of Versailles”, The comic in which he is the protagonist. But the temporal choice does not seem dictated only by the anniversary. In fact, the new layout of the Duomo station arrives at the beginning of Pride Monthmonth dedicated to celebrations lgbtq +. Lady Oscar can and is considered by many to be the first television and cartoonist example of no-gender. About her Her androgynous physiognomy and a role that rarely suited French nineteenth-century women, have made Oscar a champion of lgbtq + rights.
Educated as a child in male roles, she had become commander of the French guard and faithful right shoulder of Marie Antoinette of Austria. If in the Italian version Lady Oscar it has always been called feminine, in the Japanese original this is not the case. For many it seems that in the Japanese version of the comic, between Oscar and Marie Antoinette there is not only one simple friendshipdespite both falling in love with Count Hans Axel Von Fersen.
A transversal character e unique of its kind, which can already be guessed from theme song, imprinted in everyone’s mind: «Great party at the court of France, there is an extra child in the kingdom, blond hair and pink cheek, Oscar will be your name; the good father wanted a boy but alas you were born, in the cradle he put a foil for you, Lady with the blue bow ».
Source: Vanity Fair
