Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1979

To bring this speedy, personal, and idiosyncratic tour of anime to the end of the 1970s, I decided to watch the first episode of The Rose of Versailles not just for the sake of “something other than giant robots.” I’d watched my way through this “intrigue, romance, and gender-bending in pre-revolutionary France” series once “fansubbed” and once via Nozomi’s DVDs; when Discotek licensed the series for Blu-Ray release I did order it again for all that apparent licensor demand had put a title used in different countries, “Lady Oscar,” on the case not that long after Udon managed to translate and release the whole of the original manga in premium hardcovers while still titling it The Rose of Versailles.
( Surprises to be found )