Orpheus no Mado

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The Window of Orpheus

Cover of volume 1

オルフェウスの窓
(Orpheus no Mado)

Genre

Historical

Manga

Author

Riyoko Ikeda

Publisher

Shueisha

Other publishers:
Planet Manga

Demographic

shōjo

Serialized in

Margaret'

Original run

January 1975 – August 1981

Volumes

The Window of Orpheus (オルフェウスの窓, Orpheus no Mado^?) is a manga written by Riyoko Ikeda in the 1980s. 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 known as The Window of Orpheus in one of the towers and sees a beautiful girl through it, he 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 she is a fellow student Julius who was raised to be a boy, things spin out of control and their lives are changed forever.