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I’ve always meant to write proper essays about both infamous scenes in Rose of Versailles: the Incident Scene and the Poisoning Scene.

Everyone has their own opinion regarding both scenes, and because they contain difficult subject matter, they can be hard to talk about on any kind of public platform. People tend to get weird about them. I’ve seen a lot of anger and a lot of defensiveness over the years. I honestly don’t even know where to begin, but I’ll do my best to talk here about the Incident Scene.

To start with, I think people assign a lot of power to this scene without really understanding what the power they’re assigning to it even is—or how it might be misguided. I’m going to talk about the manga, because I don’t like what the anime did to the series in general—and I especially don’t like what they turned the Incident Scene into.

The scenes leading up to the Incident Scene are as follows: