Ludwig Kakumei
Plot. Ordered by his father to find a bride, Prince Ludwig (Lui), a flamboyant former collector of female corpses, travels the land with his loyal and soft-hearted servant Wilhelm. Development. "Ludwig Kakumei" is a parody of fairy tales. Kaori Yuki conceived the idea for the manga after considering the traditional role of princes within fairy tales: she remarked that in the majority of fairy tales, "the princes do nothing, they are not very interesting, and that was exactly something that I wanted to revolutionize." The fairy tales alluded to throughout the series include the versions of "Snow  White" and "Rapunzel", as collected by the Grimm Brothers, and Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella". Yuki also altered some aspects of the fairy tales. Yuki's Snow White, for example, is revealed in a plot twist to be wicked, because Yuki could not reconcile how a kind-hearted maiden could order her stepmother to dance herself to death. Media. Manga. Written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki, the series debuted in the January 1999 issue of the manga magazine "Melody". Subsequent chapters appeared occasionally in "Hana to Yume Step" and "Hana to Yume", and the series later transferred to the  monthly "Bessatsu Hana to Yume" in the September 2006 issue and concluded in the September 2007 issue. Hakusensha collected the chapters in four bound volumes and published them from June 18, 2004, to December 18, 2007. "Ludwig Revolution" has been translated into other languages, including Chinese by Culturecom Comics, German by Carlsen Comics, and French by Editions Tonkam. A sequel, , began with a stand-alone chapter in the February 2012 issue of "Bessatsu Hana to Yume", and continued with a mini-series, which appeared in the same manga magazine from the July 2013 issue to the September 2013 issue. Hakusensha  collected the chapters into a bound volume and published on 18 October 2013. The sequel has been translated by Editions Tonkam into French as "Ludwig Fantasy". Drama CD. On November 22, 2006, Geneon Entertainment released a drama CD of the series. It featured Tomokazu Sugita as Ludwig, Wataru Hatano as Wilhelm, Miyuki Sawashiro as Friederike, Yumi Kakazu as Dorethea, and Akiko Yajima as Blanche.