Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2024: Week 13

cover of Rose Vines and Wire Ropes (2001), artist is Yuria

From Eroica With Love is a comedy shoujo manga written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike, which ran from 1976 to 2012. The series follows Dorian Red Gloria, Earl of Gloria, a gay British nobleman. Under the alias of "Eroica", Dorian is an international art thief. Throughout the series, Dorian often crosses paths with Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, a West German NATO intelligence officer.

Since the manga's initial release, both Western and Japanese fandoms dedicated to the manga have emerged. Due to the manga's initial release date, the Western fandom for From Eroica With Love serves as an example of the growth of anime and manga in Western culture during the 1990s.