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From Eroica with Love

Japanese manga series


From Eroica with Love (Japanese: エロイカより愛をこめて, Hepburn: Eroica Yori Ai o Komete) is a shōjo manga by Yasuko Aoike which originally began publication in 1976 by Akita Shoten. The series ran irregularly in the Japanese anthology magazine Viva Princess from December 1976 to April 1979, then moved to the sister publication Princess beginning in September 1979.[1] It was featured regularly in Princess, with several later side stories appearing in Viva Princess, until August 1989. It went on hiatus for several years, then reappeared in Princess in May 1995 and ran irregularly through December 2007. As of January 2009, it is once again regularly featured in Princess Gold. The English translation by CMX began publication in 2004. It has also been translated to Chinese, as Romantic Hero, with 21 volumes, as well as to Thai, with 20 volumes.

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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.

The series is driven by frequent inadvertent encounters between Dorian and Klaus, with Dorian often disrupting Klaus's missions. Dorian has developed a fondness for and flirts incessantly with Klaus, who typically reacts with extreme disgust. Other reoccurring characters include Dorian and Klaus's respective subordinates and Klaus's enemies from the Russian KGB.

The series is generally comedic, although it involves violence, theft, and bizarre international incidents. Much of the series spoofs spy stories, as indicated by the title, a play on the James Bond novel From Russia, with Love.

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As of the mid-1980s, fan translations of From Eroica with Love began to circulate through the slash fiction community,[7] creating a "tenuous link" between slash and shōnen-ai.[8] From Eroica with Love is more popular with slash fans than it has been with dōjinshi artists.[7] The series has been described as an example of a movement in shōnen-ai and yaoi to depict more masculine men, as part of the audience's increasing comfort with objectifying males.[9]


References

  1. "Aoike Yasuko Official Website". Archived from the original on 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  2. Aoike, Yasuko (16 March 2010). From Eroica with Love. WildStorm. ISBN 978-1401208844.
  3. Amazon.co.jp: エロイカより愛をこめて 34 (プリンセスコミックス): 青池 保子: Japanese Books. ASIN 4253194540.
  4. Amazon.co.jp: エロイカより愛をこめて 35 (プリンセスコミックス): 青池 保子: Japanese Books. ASIN 4253194559.
  5. Amazon.co.jp: エロイカより愛をこめて 36 (プリンセスコミックス): 青池 保子: Japanese Books. ASIN 4253194567.
  6. Amazon.co.jp: エロイカより愛をこめて 37 (プリンセスコミックス): 青池 保子: Japanese Books. ASIN 4253194575.
  7. Thorn, Rachel (2004). "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. Archived from the original on 2016-12-14.
  8. "Girls' Stuff, May (?) '94". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28.
  9. 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 ISBN 0-8476-9136-5, ISBN 0-8476-9137-3.

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