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Oct 13, 2018 3:06 AM
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Hi guys,

I'd like your hepl for my research project. I'm studying role language (language stereotypes like ojou sama characters using desuwa or desuno) in japanese fiction. My subject focuses on foreign characters, in particular french characters.
Could you tell me of the anime or manga you know with french characters in it (especially if you remember that the french character spoke somewhat strange japanese) ?

Thank you for your help!
Oct 13, 2018 3:28 AM
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Innocent is about a family of executioners during the french revolution.
Oct 13, 2018 4:09 AM
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Ikoku Meiro no Croissee follows a 16-yo Japanese girl who travels to Paris to work as a shop-girl for a young ironmonger. There is an ojou-sama character as well.
Oct 13, 2018 6:39 PM
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Ulysses jeanne d'arc and the alchemist knight. it just started though so only 1 ep
Oct 13, 2018 9:01 PM
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I remember there was one French exchange student girl in Girlfriend Kari who spoke awkward Japanese (to indicate that she was foreign). However it's a truly awful anime so YMMV.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/24855/Girlfriend_Kari

Another one you could look at is the classic Rose of Versaille, or the more recent Le Chevalier D'Eon. Both were set in historical France.

there's also a series "Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette"
cipheronOct 13, 2018 9:07 PM
Oct 13, 2018 9:17 PM
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there is François Adjani from Yumeiro Patissiere.
its a series about a girl who wants to become a patissiere and go to Paris.
http://yumeiropatissiere.wikia.com/wiki/François_Adjani
iirc she only appears for 2 episodes or so, and only near the end of the series.

there is also Frederika from Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls, but she forgot French and only inserts random, possibly incorrect French here and there. she will sometimes end her sentence with
"shibubupure"... whatever that means.
https://www.project-imas.com/wiki/Frederica_Miyamoto
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Oct 14, 2018 3:10 AM
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Thanks for all your answers, I'll look into it !
Oct 14, 2018 5:09 AM
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Forgot to include Junketsu no Maria which takes place in northern France during the Hundred Years War. Not sure it will be all that relevant though; including it for completeness.

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