Lady Oscar, social mourning on the day of the storming of the Bastille

“What’s going on? I can’t hear the guns anymore … Fire, keep shooting, take the Bastille!”. Then the last goodbye. Tuesday 14 July 1789, Paris: after the riots and the storming of the Bastille, the symbol of the Ancien Régime falls with the beginning of the French Revolution. And for something that begins, something else ends. In this case the life of Lady Oscar. The protagonist of the famous Japanese anime – made by Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 (40 episodes of about 23 minutes) – thus dies, a heroic victim during the turmoil of the assault, already ill and debilitated by consumption. And so, as always on this day, fans remember her how to do it with someone special (at least for those who were children and adolescents in the late 80s) and through hashtags and quotes Lady Oscar ends up among the topic trends of the day. From those who remember learning about the French Revolution more from the cartoon than from books to those who are moved and talk about “never overcome trauma”. In our country the series was aired for the first time, up to the 37th episode, on Italy 1 in 1982. Then, between the late eighties and early nineties, Mediaset continued to broadcast it, but changed the title to ‘A sword for Lady Oscar’.