From Eroica with Love
Also recorded as Eroika yori Ai o Komete
From Eroica with Love
- Creator
- Yasuko Aoike
- Publisher
- Akita Shoten
- Genre
- comedy anime and manga · yaoi
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Key facts
• Ja Kanji — エロイカより愛をこめて • Ja Romaji — Eroica Yori Ai o Komete • Genre — * Adventure • Boys' love
Key facts
Key facts
• Type — manga • Author — Yasuko Aoike • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Magazine — * Viva Princess • Princess • Princess Gold • First — December 1976 • Last — June 2012 • Volumes — 39 From Eroica with Love is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike. It was serialized in Viva Princess from 1976 to 1979, Princess from 1979 to 2008, and Princess Gold beginning in 2008; it has been on hiatus since 2012. Its individual chapters have been collected into 39 volumes by Akita Shoten. It has received several spin-off works, alongside a tribute manga and a stage play adaptation.
Plot
Plot
The series revolves around the adventures of Dorian Red Gloria, Earl of Gloria, an openly gay English lord who is an art thief known as "Eroica", and Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, an uptight West German NATO major. They have frequent inadvertent encounters, with Dorian often disrupting Klaus's missions. Dorian has developed a fondness for and flirts incessantly with Klaus, who typically reacts with extreme disgust.
Manga
Manga
Written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike, the series began serialization in Akita Shoten's Viva Princess magazine in December 1976, where the series was serialized until April 1979. In September 1979, the resumed serialization in Princess. On December 28, 2008, the series was transferred to Princess Gold. The series has been on hiatus since June 2012. Its individual chapters were collected into 39 tankōbon volumes from September 8, 1978, to August 16, 2012. The series was one of the first three titles published by CMX in English. They published the first fifteen volumes. Aoike has written several spin-off stories, including Z: Tsetto and Madan no Shashu. A tribute series, titled With Love to From Eroica with Love!!, began serialization in Akita Shoten's Mystery Bonita magazine in June 2021 and was published in tankōbon form on February 16, 2024. Each chapter was written by a different artist, with Moto Hagio and Naoki Urasawa participating.
Stage play
Stage play
A stage play adaptation was performed in the Sakura Hall in Tokyo from May 11–14, 2023. It was directed by Akiko Kodama, with Oropa Irie writing the scripts, Mako Kuwabara composing the music, and Umebou in charge of choreography. It starred Yuki Nakayama and Mitsu Murata in the lead roles. A second performance run was held in the Kinokuniya Hall in Tokyo from July 26–29, 2024.
Course of the series
Dated record
Course of the series
The full dated record · 2 entries
2005
From Eroica with Love - Volume 4 (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
2006
From Eroica with Love (4 catalogued editions) (2006) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
Reception
In the mid-1980s, fan translations of From Eroica with Love began to circulate through the slash fiction community, creating a "tenuous link" between slash and. From Eroica with Love is more popular with slash fans than it has been with doujinshi artists. The series has been described as an example of a movement in and yaoi to depict more masculine men, as part of the audience's increasing comfort with objectifying males. Johanna Carlson of Comics Worth Reading liked the artwork, but found the story to be uninteresting. She described it as a " starter book". Jason Thompson described the story as Fake and Yellow but with added spy action.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Mateo, Alex. From Eroica with Love Manga Gets Stage Play. Anime News Network. April 20, 2023.
- 2.Yasuko Aoike's website.
- 3.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. December 28, 2008.
- 4.Akita Shoten.
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- 7.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. October 14, 2011.
- 8.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. April 16, 2013.
- 9.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. June 5, 2021.
- 10.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. February 16, 2024.
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- 12.Thorn, Rachel. Girls And Women Getting Out Of Hand: The Pleasure And Politics Of Japan's Amateur Comics Community. Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan William W. Kelly, ed. State University of New York Press. 2004.
- 13.Girls' Stuff, May (?) '94.
- 14.Suzuki, Kazuko. (1999) "Pornography or Therapy? Japanese Girls Creating the Yaoi Phenomenon". In Sherrie Inness, ed., Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World. London: Rowman & Littlefield, p.251 , .
- 15.Carlson, Johanna. CMX Manga: From Eroica With Love, Madara, Land of the Blindfolded, Swan, The Devil Does Exist. Comics Worth Reading. January 8, 2006.
- 16.Thompson, Jason. Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - From Eroica With Love. Anime News Network. November 25, 2010.
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