There is plenty of pathos and not much time is spent on the betrayals that led to Richard's defeat. The ending is fairly abrupt and other than a throwaway line about needing a horse, there aren't as many Shakespeare references here. Instead, the focus is on the pathos and psychology of Richard as the losses mounted in his life (wife, son, friends, lovers all dead) and the realization that he has accomplished what he set out to do and can face the battle calmly. a b c d e f g h i j Hazra, Adriana (31 January 2022). "Funimation Reveals Requiem of the Rose King Anime's English Dub Cast". Anime News Network . Retrieved 31 January 2022. The best point in this series for me, though, is Richard and Henry’s relationship. I really feel for them, and think they could have a real friendship or romance, if their lives were different. They get to spend some real time together in this volume, and it’s a sweet reprieve for both of them. I want more of that, honestly. It's no spoiler really to know that this is Richard's last battle. Kanno weaves in the mystical as well as playing with facts, making Richard a far more sympathetic character while Henry Tudor is much more maligned. Shakespeare wrote his plays to favor the contemporary Tudor court and so Richard would be vilified and Henry Rudor deified. Kanno does a neat job in turning that on its head at the end.

Among those dark thoughts? Richard is both male and female, which by itself would be hard enough to deal with. He is also haunted by supernatural beings (something I forgot to mention in my review of volume 1), particularly the spirit of Joan of Arc, who is much sexier looking than I’m sure the real Joan ever looked. And though not dark, there is Richard’s white boar, a real animal that is part pet, part heraldic emblem, that shows up from time to time. a b c d e f g h i j k Pineda, Rafael Antonio (4 October 2021). " Requiem of the Rose King Anime's Video Unveils Cast, More Staff, January 2022 Debut With Half-Year Run". Anime News Network . Retrieved 4 October 2021. Civil war grips Medieval England as the houses of York and Lancaster vie for the throne. Richard, the Duke of York's youngest son, wants nothing more than to see his father crowned king, but he struggles with a secret that he fears to confront.The 3rd son of Richard Plantagenet of the Duke of York, alongside older brothers Edward IV of York and George of the Duke of Clarence, Richard seems like your typical kind of birthed son and sibling of the family, that according to its claims of being superior to the throne of England according to cognatic primogeniture (a male-preference succession to a female member of the House taking over the throne only if there weren't any male offspring) but inferior according to agnatic/patrilineal primogeniture (where inheritance is given according to the seniority of birth among kin, mainly sons before brothers and with both females and matrilineal (tracing through female kinship) males), would result that he would eventually rise to the throne, but not after both of his brothers Edward IV and George get their succession phase before he does. The problem (as is inferred) is Richard's intersex or hermaphrodite (son of the Greek god Hermes and the goddess Aphrodite) nature, whom looks like a male but has both sexes' reproductive organs where he can act as either the male or the female, and the closest of people interpret him in both ways, which his mother Cecily Neville of the Duchess of York (Richard Plantagenet's wife and the mother of the Yorkist sons) dubbed him as a demon of the worst kind. Day and night, Cecily would protest her hatred in Richard's face and memories, reminding him of his needless existence, that's only supplemented by the French warrior woman Joan of Arc's inclusions appearing in his visions to torment him, based on the belief by the English that she is a witch. a b 「薔薇王の葬列」リチャードとヘンリー描いた新作ドラマCDがプリンセス付録に. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 6 February 2017 . Retrieved 16 September 2020. What's completely thrown me are the liberties that Kanno has taken with the characters and historical inspiration. I mean, first off, Kanno decided to swap the physical deformity of Shakespeare's Richard III to him now being intersex (!?!?) and Joan of Arc is a character, but she's now a spirit who haunts Richard. UMMM?? The scene is England in the Middle Ages where the land is fraught with war and strife as the War of the Roses rages. The house of York meets the house of Lancaster over and over on the field of battle and just when one seems to have overcome the other the tables turn and the fighting rages on. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (4 October 2021). " Requiem of the Rose King Anime's Video Unveils Cast, More Staff, January 2022 Debut With Half-Year Run". Anime News Network . สืบค้นเมื่อ 4 October 2021.

The other characters are also very well-developed, with each of the main characters' brothers having obstacles in their way, and many problems that stands in their way from thriving. However, I'm just gonna say that please, PLEASE, read the manga instead as J.C.Staff's complete and finished adaptation and interpretation of this magnificent historical tragedy series is severely underwhelming in all aspects, and is a very stark comparison against the original source material which had so much depth and cognizant feelings. And this is all coming off from director Suzuki Kentarou which directed Summer 2018's Satsuriku no Tenshi (which had a very similar dark premise), which almost seems like a slap in the face to the psychological, horror and suspense genres, and now adding the historical, action, drama and supernatural themes altogether to make one more extra bad and awful rap.However, the second occasion is uncomfortable. Richard is captured by the enemy and is assaulted. His shirt is cut open revealing his chest. In this scene, Richard is drawn in...what I can only describe as a wistful, pretty, anime boy kind of style. And given the context of this scene, it feels out of place. My fear while reading this series is that the author, Kanno is attempting to romanticize and sexualize Richard’s dysphoria and his body in a way that is supposed to appeal to and titillate an audience. I’m not saying that this IS the intention, but it is something I’m concerned about while reading. Who is this story meant for? Does this story have good intentions? Or is this just written out of some morbid curiosity and fetishization? Is this story good representation? I don’t know. I haven’t read enough of it to know. And honestly, on some of those questions my opinion is irrelevant. I am far more interested in hearing from the LGBT and Intersex community on the subject. Requiem of the Rose King follows Richard who is the third son of the Duke of York and living in a world where the Wars of the Roses is on the precipice of beginning. An art book, Bara-Ō no Sōretsu Irasuto-shū: Keikyoku no Hitsugi ( 「薔薇王の葬列」イラスト集　荊棘の棺, "Requiem of the Rose King Illustration Collection: Coffin of Thorns"), was published by Akita Shoten on 15 June 2018. [86] [87] The adventures of this Shakespeare inspired Richard III continue in volume 2 of Requiem of the Rose King.