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From Eroica with Love
Cover of the 34th volume
エロイカより愛をこめて
(Eroica Yori Ai o Komete)
Genre
Manga
Written byYasuko Aoike
Published byAkita Shoten
English publisher
Magazine
  • Viva Princess (1976–1979)
  • Princess (1979–2008)
  • Princess Gold (2008–2012)
DemographicShōjo
Original runDecember 1976 – June 2012
Volumes39

From Eroica with Love (Japanese: エロイカより愛をこめて, Hepburn: Eroica Yori Ai o Komete) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike. It was serialized in Viva Princess from 1976 to 1979, Princess from 1979 to 2008, and Princess Gold beginning in 2008; it has been on hiatus since 2012. Its individual chapters have been collected into 39 volumes by Akita Shoten. It has received several spin-off works, alongside a tribute manga and a stage play adaptation.

Plot

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Main article: List of From Eroica with Love characters

The series revolves around the adventures of Dorian Red Gloria, Earl of Gloria, an openly gay English lord who is an art thief known as "Eroica", and Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, an uptight West German NATO major. They have frequent inadvertent encounters, with Dorian often disrupting Klaus's missions. Dorian has developed a fondness for and flirts incessantly with Klaus, who typically reacts with extreme disgust.

Media

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Manga

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Written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike, the series began serialization in Akita Shoten's Viva Princess magazine in December 1976, where the series was serialized until April 1979.[2][3] In September 1979, the resumed serialization in Princess.[3] On December 28, 2008, the series was transferred to Princess Gold.[4] The series has been on hiatus since June 2012.[2] Its individual chapters were collected into 39 tankōbon volumes from September 8, 1978, to August 16, 2012.[5][6] The series was one of the first three titles published by CMX in English.[7] They published the first fifteen volumes.[2]

Aoike has written several spin-off stories, including Z: Tsetto [ja] and Madan no Shashu [ja].[8][9] A tribute series, titled With Love to From Eroica with Love!!, began serialization in Akita Shoten's Mystery Bonita magazine in June 2021 and was published in tankōbon form on February 16, 2024. Each chapter was written by a different artist, with Moto Hagio and Naoki Urasawa participating.[10][11]

Stage play

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A stage play adaptation was performed in the Sakura Hall [ja] in Tokyo from May 11–14, 2023. It was directed by Akiko Kodama, with Oropa Irie writing the scripts, Mako Kuwabara composing the music, and Umebou in charge of choreography. It starred Yuki Nakayama and Mitsu Murata in the lead roles.[2] A second performance run was held in the Kinokuniya Hall [ja] in Tokyo from July 26–29, 2024.[12]

Reception

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In the mid-1980s, fan translations of From Eroica with Love began to circulate through the slash fiction community,[13] creating a "tenuous link" between slash and shōnen-ai.[14] From Eroica with Love is more popular with slash fans than it has been with doujinshi artists.[13] The series has been described as an example of a movement in shōnen-ai and yaoi to depict more masculine men, as part of the audience's increasing comfort with objectifying males.[15]

Johanna Carlson of Comics Worth Reading liked the artwork, but found the story to be uninteresting. She described it as a "shōnen-ai starter book".[16] Jason Thompson described the story as Fake and Yellow but with added spy action.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Thompson, Jason (November 25, 2010). "Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - From Eroica With Love". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Mateo, Alex (April 20, 2023). "From Eroica with Love Manga Gets Stage Play". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  3. ^ a b 70年代作品リスト. Yasuko Aoike's website. Archived from the original on July 12, 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  4. ^ エロイカに愛をこめて！かわぐち、とりのが少佐描く. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 28, 2008. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  5. ^ エロイカより愛をこめて 第1巻 (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  6. ^ エロイカより愛をこめて 第39巻 (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  7. ^ Macdonald, Christopher (June 23, 2004). "Details on DC's Manga Imprint". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  8. ^ 青池保子「Z－ツェット－完全版」刊行でサイン会開催. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 14, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  9. ^ 青池保子「エロイカ」の少佐スピンオフをまとめた作品集. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 16, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  10. ^ 青池保子「エロイカより愛をこめて」への愛を語る企画がボニータで、初回は市東亮子. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 5, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  11. ^ 萩尾望都、浦沢直樹、安野モヨコら参加「エロイカより愛をこめて」企画が単行本に. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 16, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  12. ^ 舞台「エロイカより愛をこめて」新たなシーン追加した再演に中山優貴＆村田充. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 6, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  13. ^ a b Thorn, Rachel (2004). "Girls And Women Getting Out Of Hand: The Pleasure And Politics Of Japan's Amateur Comics Community". Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan William W. Kelly, ed. State University of New York Press. Archived from the original on December 14, 2016.
  14. ^ "Girls' Stuff, May (?) '94". Archived from the original on August 28, 2008.
  15. ^ Suzuki, Kazuko. (1999) "Pornography or Therapy? Japanese Girls Creating the Yaoi Phenomenon". In Sherrie Inness, ed., Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World. London: Rowman & Littlefield, p.251 ISBN 0-8476-9136-5, ISBN 0-8476-9137-3.
  16. ^ Carlson, Johanna (January 8, 2006). "CMX Manga: From Eroica With Love, Madara, Land of the Blindfolded, Swan, The Devil Does Exist". Comics Worth Reading. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
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