Emma: A Victorian Romance is a bitter sweet historical romantic anime which took place of 19th century England. The story is about a forbidden love between a young gentleman and a maid.This anime was an adaptation from manga with the same title, by Kaoru Mori. The anime have 2 season with 12 episodes each; Emma : A Victorian Romance and Emma : The Second Act.
Characters :
Emma : A maid who work at a retired governess's house; Kelly Stowner. Often get confessions but end up rejecting every single of them until she meet a young gentleman from the House of Jones; William Jones. She's good at cooking and do house chores but she had a very bad sight even when she wear hes glasses. When William offer her to buy a new glasses, she refuse it because she love the glasses which was given to her by her employer.
William Jones : A young gentleman with mischievous attitude but have a warm heart. Fall in love with Emma right after their first meeting at Kelly Stowner's house. As an elder son, he has a big responsibility to become heir of Jones and his father is very strict toward him, because of his hope to rise up Jones into gentry. Although his father against his relationship with Emma, he still love Emma and still want to be with her, even after he get engaged with Eleanor Campbell; a daughter of viscount.
Other characters :
Kelly Stowner, Hakim Atawari, Eleanor Campbell, Al, Richard Jones, and many more...
If you like a romance with a slice of comedy and tragedy, this is the right anime for you. Come with suitable and nice theme songs, this anime is just great. But be sure the prepare some tissue as you might be in tears while watching it ;P
