Regarding the positive aspects of this show, the art style is quite nice to look at and the music goes very well with the scenes.
Regarding the reason I gave this show one star, I did so because despite the original creator, Riyoko Ikeda, supposedly spending two years researching the events surrounding the French Revolution, she still regurgitates the same leftist lies made by the radicals of the time. Contrary to popular belief, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were not dim-witted, careless spenders, but were actually very willing to reform the system to benefit the common people. Such reforms included the abolition of the state monopoly on grain, the cutting of spending at Versailles, the abolition of allowances for useless aristocrats, improvement of courts, abolition of torture, abolition of forced labor, and improved prison conditions (The Bastille wasn't that bad of a place nor did it hold political prisoners at the time of the revolution, but of course, the storming gets romanticized in this show anyway, with all its pointless deaths.) To this show's credit, The villainous portrayal of the Jacobins like Robespierre is refreshing, but it does not change the fact that the two monarchs were portrayed as being "responsible" for all the hardships that led to their deaths in the first place. It's not particularly surprising considering Ikeda was a member of the Japanese Communist Party and was clearly influenced by Marxist ideas when she was involved with making this work. However, false propaganda cannot be excused.
Regarding the reason I gave this show one star, I did so because despite the original creator, Riyoko Ikeda, supposedly spending two years researching the events surrounding the French Revolution, she still regurgitates the same leftist lies made by the radicals of the time. Contrary to popular belief, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were not dim-witted, careless spenders, but were actually very willing to reform the system to benefit the common people. Such reforms included the abolition of the state monopoly on grain, the cutting of spending at Versailles, the abolition of allowances for useless aristocrats, improvement of courts, abolition of torture, abolition of forced labor, and improved prison conditions (The Bastille wasn't that bad of a place nor did it hold political prisoners at the time of the revolution, but of course, the storming gets romanticized in this show anyway, with all its pointless deaths.) To this show's credit, The villainous portrayal of the Jacobins like Robespierre is refreshing, but it does not change the fact that the two monarchs were portrayed as being "responsible" for all the hardships that led to their deaths in the first place. It's not particularly surprising considering Ikeda was a member of the Japanese Communist Party and was clearly influenced by Marxist ideas when she was involved with making this work. However, false propaganda cannot be excused.