Emma - A Victorian love

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Emma - A Victorian love
Original title 英國 戀 物語 エ マ
transcription Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma
genre History , romance
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kaoru Mori
publishing company Enterbeam
magazine Monthly Comic Beam
First publication January 2002 - May 2006
expenditure 10
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2005-2007
Studio Pierrot (Season 1)
Ajia-do Animation Works (Season 2)
length 25 minutes
Episodes 24 in 2 seasons
Director Tsuneo Kobayashi
music Kunihiko Ryo
First broadcast April 2, 2005 - July 2, 2007 on BS-i , TBS
synchronization

Emma - A Victorian Love ( Japanese エ マ , Ema ) is a manga series by the Japanese artist Kaoru Mori . The series was also known as anime - television series and Roman implemented.

The work is about the maid Emma who falls in love with the son of a rich family in Victorian England . It can be classified in the genre of romance and history .

action

Emma was kidnapped from a Yorkshire village as a little girl to be taken to a brothel in London . But she was able to escape and found a housemaid with Kelly Stowner, a retired educator. Kelly taught her household chores, reading, and writing.

When William Jones, a former protégé, visits Kelly, he falls in love with Emma. But he belongs to a wealthy family, and he is supposed to marry a noblewoman as their ancestor. He met one of these at a ball with Eleanor Campbell and she also showed interest in him. Now the Indian prince Hakim Atawari, an old friend of Williams, shows affection for Emma. However, when he notices how close the two are, he supports their relationship.

Soon after, Kelly sprains her foot and becomes increasingly weaker, so that Emma has to take more care of her. Nevertheless, William and Emma get closer and William now wants to convince his father to agree to the relationship. But when Kelly dies, Emma moves away from London, leaving William.

Soon she was working in York as a housemaid for the Mölders family, immigrants from Germany. It quickly became popular there and was also taken on trips to London. On one of these trips, Emma happens to meet William at his engagement ball with Eleanor. Emma discovers that the lady she is there with is William's mother.

Manga

Emergence

Kaoru Mori tried to reproduce Victorian England as realistically as possible. To do this, she traveled to Great Britain and, starting with the third volume, sought advice from Rico Murakami. In addition, she had long been interested in Great Britain and the life of maids, so she drew several dōjinshi on this subject before Emma . As a result, several well-known buildings in London from this period emerge in the course of the story, including King's Cross Station , the Crystal Palace , and Covent Garden .

Hakim Atawari was initially created as a rival to Williams in his campaign for Emma. However, its role changed as the story progressed. Kaoru Mori had also found out about Indian culture through books and documents.

publication

The manga by Kaoru Mori was published in Japan from January 2002 to May 2006 in the manga magazine Monthly Comic Beam by Enterbrain . The main story comprises 52 chapters, which were also summarized in ten tankōbon (anthologies). This was followed by several additional stories, which again comprise three volumes.

The work was published in English by CMX Manga and in French by Kurokawa. Planeta DeAgostini Comics published the manga in Spanish and Bonnier Carlsen in Swedish .

The publisher Tokyopop published the manga since August 2006 in so far ten volumes in German. The translation is by Cora Hartwig and Hirofumi Yamada.

Anime

In 2005, produced Studio Pierrot a twelve-part anime - TV series for manga. It was directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi and the character design is by Keiko Shimizu and Yuko Kusumoto . The series was broadcast as Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma ( 英國 戀 物語 エ マ ) from April 2, 2005 to June 18, 2005 on BS-i and TBS .

In 2007 Ajia-dō produced a second season with twelve episodes. This was broadcast under the title Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma Daini Maku Second Act ( 英國 戀 物語 エ マ 第二幕 SECOND ACT ) from April 16, 2007 on the channels Chiba TV , Sun TV and TV Saitama , later also on Nagoya Broadcasting Network , Tokyo MX and TV Kanagawa .

The Kanji used in the Japanese title for love and land do not correspond to the modern Shinjitai , but to the Kyūjitai , which were in use before the writing reform in Japan in 1946.

The first season was broadcast in English on Animax Asia. The Right Stuf International licensed the second season.

A German version of the first twelve episodes is distributed by Tokyopop. All four DVDs and a collector's box were released from October 2006 to February 2008.

Voice actor

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Emma Yumi Toma Simona Pahl
Willam Jones Tokuyoshi Kawashima Mark Seidenberg
Kelly Strawner Taeko Nakanishi Isabella Grothe
Hakim Atawari Yūji Ueda Patrick Bach
Eleanor Campbell Sanae Kobayashi Arlette Stanschus

The German synchronization was produced by the Hamburg Synchron studio.

music

The music for both seasons was composed by Kunihiko Ryo . For the opening credits , Silhouette of a Breeze by Kunihiko Ryo was used in the first season, in the second the song in a different version called Silhouette of a Breeze - Celtic version . The end credits were accompanied by Menuet for EMMA by the Tokyo Recorder Orchestra and Rondo of Lily bell by Kunihiko Ryo.

Novels

In 2005, two volumes of Emma's novels were published , written by Saori Kumi. The first of these volumes was published in German by Tokyopop in November 2007 .

reception

The manga won an award in the manga category at the ninth Japanese Media Arts Festival in 2005.

The manga became so popular among fans in Japan that a Maid Cafe was opened in Tokyo's Shinjuku district , which is modeled on the series.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Kaoru Mori at animenewsnetwork.
  2. ↑ animenewsnetwork. on the winners of the 9th Japanese Media Arts Festival
  3. ^ Homepage of the Victoriancafe-Emily.

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