Orpheus no Mado
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| Orpheus no Mado | |||
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| オルフェウスの窓 | |||
| Genre | shōjo, historical | ||
| Manga | |||
| Authored by | Riyoko Ikeda | ||
| Publisher |  Shueisha |
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| Serialized in | Margaret |
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| Original run | 1975 – 1981 | ||
| No. of volumes | 18 | ||
The Window of Orpheus or Orpheus no Mado (オルフェウスの窓?) is a manga written by Riyoko Ikeda in the 1980's. It takes place in Germany and Russia with the backdrop story of the Russian Revolution.
[edit] Story
The story begins in Regensburg, Germany in 1903. There is a rumor at the all boy's Catholic S. Sebastian Music Institute that if someone looks through a window in one of the towers known as The Window of Orpheus and sees a beautiful girl through it that they will fall in love with her. This love will only bring pain for it will end up like the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Two of the students - Klaus and Isaac see a girl through the window. Not realizing that she is fellow student, Julius, who was raised to be a boy, things spin out of control and there lives are changed forever.
[edit] Characters
- Alfred von Alensmeier
- Annelotte von Alensmeier
- Julius von Alensmeier
- Maria Barbara von Alensmeier
- Renate von Alensmeier
- Klaus zon Maschmidt (Alexeij Mihailovic)
- Dimitrij Mihailovic
- Arlaune von Egenolf
- Isaac Gotthilfe Weischeit
- Friederike Weischeit
- Katharine von Brennel
- Hermann Virkrich
- Davidt Rassen
