Emma (manga)
Emma - A Victorian Love (Japaneseエマ, Ema) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Kaoru Mori. The series has also been implemented as an anime television series and novel.
The work is about the maid Emma, falls in love with the son of a rich family in Victorian England. It can be classified in the genre of romance and history.
- 3.1 Voice Actors
- 3.2 Music
Action
Emma was kidnapped as a little girl from a village in Yorkshire, to be brought to a brothel in London. But she managed to escape and stayed with Kelly Stowner as a maid, a governess in retirement. Kelly taught her homework, reading and writing.
Now when William Jones, a former protege, Kelly visited, he falls in love with Emma. But he belongs to a rich family as their heir, he should marry a nobleman. Such he met with Eleanor Campbell on a ball and this also shows interest in him. Now also shows the Indian Prince Hakim Atawari, an old friend of Williams, affection for Emma. However, when he noticed how close they are, he supports their relationship.
Soon afterwards, but Kelly sprained her foot and is increasingly weaker, so that Emma has to take care of them more. Nevertheless, William and Emma come closer and William wants to convince his father to consent to the relationship. But when Kelly dies, Emma pulls away from London and so leaves William.
Soon she works in York as a housemaid of the Molders family, immigrants from Germany. There, they will quickly popular and comes so on trips to London with. On one of these trips Emma accidentally meets William just on his betrothal ball with Eleanor. Emma discovers that the lady with whom she is there, is the mother of William.
Manga
Formation
Kaoru Mori tried to Victorian England to play as realistically as possible. For this, she traveled to Britain, taking in to consult on the third volume of Murakami Rico. In addition, she was interested for a long time to Great Britain and the lives of maids, so she drew already several dōjinshi on this topic before Emma. Therefore, in the course of the story several well-known buildings in London come from this time on, according to King 's Cross station, the Crystal Palace, and Covent Garden.
Hakim Atawari was first applied in its courtship of Emma as a rival Williams. However, his role changed with the advancement of the story. Also about the Indian culture, Kaoru Mori had informed with books and documents.
Publication
The manga by Kaoru Mori appeared in Japan from January 2002 to May 2006 in the manga magazine Monthly Comic Beam from Enterbrain. The main story has 52 chapters in ten tankōbon ( collected volumes ) were summarized. This was followed by several additional stories, again consisting of three volumes.
The work was published in English by CMX Manga, in French by Kurokawa. Planeta DeAgostini Comics moved the manga in Spanish and Bonnier Carlsen in Swedish.
The publisher Tokyopop published the manga since August 2006 in ten volumes so far in German. The translation is by Cora Hartwig and Hirofumi Yamada.
Anime
In 2005, the Studio Pierrot a twelve- episode anime television series produced for Manga. This Tsuneo Kobayashi directed 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) of 2 April 2005 to 18 June 2005 the transmitters BS -i and TBS.
Produced in 2007 Asia -Do a second season of 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 16 April 2007 to the transmitters Chiba TV, Sun TV and TV Saitama, and later on Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Tokyo MX TV and Kanagawa.
The kanji used in the Japanese title for love and country does not comply with modern Shinjitai, but the Kyūjitai that were before the writing reform in Japan in 1946 in use.
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. Here are all four DVDs and a collector's box appeared from October 2006 to February 2008.
Voice Actors
The German synchronization was produced by Studio Hamburg synchronous.
Music
The music of both squadrons was composed by Ryo Kunihiko. Was used Silhouette of a Breeze by Kunihiko Ryo in the first season, the song in the second in another version entitled Silhouette of a Breeze for the opening credits - Celtic version. The Broadcast were underlaid with Menuet for EMMA from Tokyo Recorder Orchestra and Rondo of Lily bell of Kunihiko Ryo.
Novels
2005, two volumes were published novel Emma, written by Saori Kumi. The first of these volumes was published by Tokyopop in German in November 2007.
Reception
The manga won an award in the category at the ninth Manga Japanese Media Arts Festival in 2005.
The manga was so popular that a Maid Cafe was opened in Tokyo 's Shinjuku district, which is modeled after the series in Japan among fans.