All lovers of 80s cartoons cannot fail to remember (and probably love) Lady Oscar, an unconventional heroine who, already at the time of the French Revolution, was struggling against stereotypes and prejudices.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Oscar François de Jarjayes, the courageous protagonist of the Lady Oscar cartoon, certainly does not go unnoticed.
She is a woman with a man's name (and that almost everyone believes so) who is a soldier and fights not only with weapons but also and above all against prejudices and stereotypes of an era in which it was preferred to have male children and where noblewomen dressed in sumptuous dresses with a narrow bust and wide skirts.
The initials already tell us something about her: "The good father wanted a boy, but alas you were born, in the cradle he put a foil, Lady with the blue bow". The generation of thirty who followed the cartoon in the eighties will remember very well who Oscar is forced to grow up as if it were a boy at the behest of a military father who educates her so that she becomes a perfect soldier.
The girl, forced to be what she is not, evolves into becoming a modern heroine, counter-current, a sort of anti-princess, full of strength and courage but also endowed with a noble soul and great sensitivity.
Many people still today would fall in love with a woman of such charisma, in the cartoon it is her childhood companion Andrè who does it, Oscar's eternal love which unfortunately will only be crowned shortly before the end, a sad end.
This story, in fact, made up of betrayals, court intrigues and tormented loves is certainly not a happy ending, as one might expect from a cartoon for children.
The brave Lady with the blue ribbon will die leading the assault on the Bastille on 14 July 1789 with a destiny already sealed: Oscar was in fact sick with consumption, which at the time left no way out.
The story of this special woman has remained in the hearts of all of us for its originality and hardness. It is undoubtedly an out-of-the-box cartoon, a real revolution in the revolution which, among other things, faces the gender theme. We can say with certainty that it is one of the most popular Japanese series of all time.
Do you have a little nostalgia for the times when you spent your afternoons watching Lady Oscar?
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