#emma a victorian romance

[celiaelise]

Lately I've been watching "Emma: a Victorian Romance", an anime from 2005, which has made the very bold and slightly confusing choice to be a romance set in historical England, that shares the name of one of THE most popular, well-known, and widely-adapted romances set in historical England. And having absolutely nothing in common with it.

Anyway, it's fun, I'm having a good time. There are some things that seem really well-researched, like shots of specific tools or gadgets that seem like they must be period-accurate for how bizarre they are, and then there are moments of glaring comedic inaccuracies. (as is to be expected, I suppose!)

(Well, the entire premise involves a nobleman falling in love with a housemaid, so it requires you to suspend a lot of disbelief from the get-go.)

I also don't actually know my historical time periods well enough to know if it is authentically Victorian or not. The most convincingly British thing about it, so far, is the Orientalism with which the Indian character is treated by the narrative. I didn't know Japanese anime could do that! You learn something new every day.

[figurecollection]

Emma 1/7 Scale by Good Smile Company, from Emma: A Victorian Romance

[kalikedua]

this particular scene makes me think about how unusual the jones family dinner arrangement. children at this era are not usually present at dinner table together with adults. they're usually take their dinner with their nanny/governess at nursery. yet, vivian and colin are allowed to join and eat together with their parents and older siblings

also, in the middle of this very tense dinner scene, if you squint, you could see richard jones glances fondly at his youngest child, colin. my heart cries in joy from watching another member of jones family openly dote on this poor kid 😭

[romancemedia]

Anime Romances + First Date

[peikonlainen]

I never liked Eggman's napoleon jacket thingy so replaced it with yellow scarf (trust me its yellow)!

[plague-of-insomnia]

Fandom Quiz

Pick 5 Fandoms & Answer Accordingly:

Fandoms:

Black Butler

Ace Attorney

Pet Shop of Horrors

Overlord

Emma: A Victorian Romance

Which character did you first fall in love with?

Sebastian Michaelis

Miles Edgeworth

Count D

Sebas

Hakim

What character that you never thought you’d love as much as you do now?

Bard !!!!!

Dick Gumshoe

Leon

the second prince of Re-Estize

Hans

Character you can’t stand?

Charles Grey

Manfred von Karma

Count D (MC’s father, Father D)

can’t think of one

William Jones (yeah, I KNOW he’s the love interest but I really dislike him)

Who do you ship?

oh man everyone lol, but especially sebard & sebagni

Edgeworth (Phoenix/Miles)

Count D/Leon

Overlord(Ainz)/Demiurge

Emma/Hans

I tag: @justanothersnakeblog @kawaii-pigeon @apocalypticromantic666 @lilacwriter07 & anyone else who would like to join - participation is completely for fun and only if you feel like it!

[meiscella]

[animefeminist]

Every Page With Love and Care: Mori Kaoru, historical fiction mangaka

Mori Kaoru is, perhaps above all else, consistent. That consistency, both for the high quality of her works and her particular fascination with women, have earned her manga a well-deserved reputation as a must-read for anyone interested in the medium.

What particular fascinations, you ask? Well, maids, for one. Let’s start with maids.

Mori got her start creating doujinshi (self-published works) under the self-explanatory penname Lady Maid. When she was later scouted by publisher Enterbrain! and began serializing her first non-doujin manga Emma in 2001, it also featured a maid as its protagonist. Add the fact that she would later return to Shirley, the manga she had started as Lady Maid, and that many of her one-shot stories feature maids, and her fascination becomes undeniable.

[...]

Mori’s dedication to historical accuracy doesn’t just apply to maid uniforms. She has a love of place that shows through in every line of her impossibly detailed, exhaustively researched settings. The Victorian England of Shirley and Emma seems to be her first love, with recreations of many actual locations in London such as the Crystal Palace and Covent Garden. Mori even went so far as to hire a historical consultant for later volumes of Emma to ensure accuracy.

However, her most striking settings might be those of A Bride’s Story, which follows the daily lives of a number of young brides or brides-to-be across 19th century Central Asia. The manga shares Shirley’s dedication to depicting the step-by-step processes of daily life, only instead of housework, A Bride’s Story devotes whole chapters to embroidery, hunting, food, war, and—of course—the marriage traditions of half a dozen societies, all in gorgeously illustrated spreads.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[asian-character-of-the-day]

Day 315

Today’s Asian character is Hakim Atawari from Emma!

He is Indian.

[storiamanga]

. . . . . . . . . . . favorite manga x favorite panel . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

[cartblanch]

So I recently bought the first volume of Scribbles by Kaoru Mori to add to my artbooks collection. I first watched Emma: A Victorian Romance when I was a child as Animax kept on airing the series (along with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood).

So when the pandemic hit, I was in the middle of a school project that was due in a few days, and I suddenly thought of the anime. Like, what happened to that series? So I looked it up, picked up the manga and finished reading the entirety of it in one night. And I thought, wow. Just wow. The way you could see how much Mori’s improved her illustrations in six years are amazing.

So I’ve loved her works and had re-read Emma at least eight times since then. I’m currently reading her ongoing series, A Bride’s Story. Her illustrations are just amazing and I feel like I should share with you guys some of my favourite pages from the book!

[kalikedua]

one of the greatest thing about emma and william kissing scenes in the manga is that before they got married, 100% of them are shown from the back of will's/emma's head. and after their marriage, for the first time readers could see them kissing from their side profiles

[romancemedia]

Anime Girls + Makeovers

[animebackgroundmusic]

"Confession" by: Kunihiko Ryo from: Emma – A Victorian Romance