Ludwig Kakumei

Ludwig Kakumei
Genre	drama, fantasy, horror, romance
Manga
Written by	Kaori Yuki
Published by	Hakusensha

Ludwig Revolution (ルードヴィッヒ革命, Ludwig Kakumei) is a gothic horror shōjo manga by Kaori Yuki. The story tells about Prince Ludwig who is ordered by his father to find himself a wife more suitable than the women he often brings into the castle. Along with his servant Wilhelm, they travel across the land in search of fair maidens from classic stories in hopes of finding Ludwig a wife.

Plot

Volume 1

• Chapter 1: Snow White

Snow White is a beautiful princess with skin white as snow, lips red as a rose and more beautiful than her mother. It sounds like you childhood story right? This Snow White is murderous and a killer, a whore who only thinks of her own beauty, wanting to be the most beautiful of all, so you better ask the mirror mirror on the wall.

• Chapter 2: Little Red Riding Hood

Lisette is a childhood friend, but when she is tricked into killing her parents thinking they sold her for a pile of gold, this little red riding hood really turns things red all over, how little red riding hood really got her hood red...

• Chapter 3: Sleeping Beauty

Ludwig journeys to a land where a princess sleeps and has been sleeping for over a hundred years. A mysterious witch claims to have put the spell on her but when Ludwig finally wakes her from her slumber, time seems to move foward. Dying in the end, this ends up being another tragic twisted tale.

• Chapter 4 Bluebeard

Bluebeard seems terrifying but the secret is that his beard is fake when Ludwig is accidently mistaked for one of Bluebeard's wives and he claims to have another personality when putting on the beard.

Volume 2

• Chapter 5: Rapunzel
• Chapter 6: Maid Maleen
• Chapter 7: The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich
• Chapter 8: The Goose Girl

Volume 3

• Chapter 9: Hansel and Gretel
• Chapter 10: Cinderella Part 1
• Chapter 11: Cinderella Part 2
• Chapter 12: Cinderella Part 3

Volume 4

• Chapter 13: Princess of Salt Part 1
• Chapter 14: Princess of Salt Part 2
• Chapter 15: Princess of Salt Part 3

Characters

Main characters

• Prince Ludwig
• Wilhelm
• Lisette
• Blanche
• Friederike
• Amalie
• Blue Beard

Minor characters

• Ludwig's Father The King
• Blanche's Mother
• Dorothea