Black Rose Alice
Black Rose Alice is a Japanese fantasy romance manga series written and illustrated by Setona Mizushiro. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Princess magazine from 2008 to 2011, after which the manga was put on hold for eight years. Mizushiro resumed serialization under the title 'Black Rose Alice: Da capo in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine in April 2020. The original Black Rose Alice manga was published as six volumes by Akita Shoten and licensed in English by Viz Media. Centered on Dimitri, a vampire, and his relationship with Azusa, the woman inhabiting the body of his lost love, Black Rose Alice has also been adapted into an audio drama and a stage play in Japan.
Plot
In 1908, Dimitri, a famous singer in Vienna, is killed and turned into a vampire. In 2008, Azuza Kikukawa, a Japanese high school teacher, is hospitalized after a car accident with her boyfriend Kouya. Dimitri approaches Azuza and tells her he will heal Kouya so long as she sacrifices herself to him. She agrees, and her soul is implanted into the body of a young girl, Dimitri's childhood friend and love, Agnieszka. Azuza learns that the various men living in Dimitri's house are vampires, and she must choose one of them as her mate so she can give birth to that vampire's seed. Azuza is renamed Alice, as she accepts her role and grows closer to the men in order to choose.Characters
; Dimitri Lewandowski; Theodore
; Agnieszka von Rosenfelt
; Azusa Kikukawa / Alice
; Kouya Ikushima
; Reiji
; Kai
; Leo / Taichirou Kusonose
; Maximillian
; Akari
Media
Manga
Black Rose Alice was launched in the April 2008 issue of Akita Shoten's Princess magazine on March 6, 2008. The first part of the manga concluded in the magazine's September 2011 issue on August 6, 2011, after which author Setona Mizushiro announced she was putting the series on hold. Akita Shoten collected the chapters into six volumes published under the Princess Comics imprint from November 2008 to October 2011. Shogakukan re-released the manga in six volumes published under the Flower Comics Alpha imprint from August to October 2016. Internationally, Black Rose Alice is licensed in English by Viz Media, in French by Kazé, and in German by Carlsen Comics.On January 28, 2020, after an eight-year hiatus, Mizushiro announced that the manga would resume serialization in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine under the title Black Rose Alice: Da capo. The series, featuring new central characters and perspectives, was launched in the June 2020 issue of Flowers on April 28, 2020. Shogakukan published Black Rose Alice: D.C. al fine''s first volume under the Flower Comics Alpha imprint on March 10, 2021. Five volumes have been released as of October 2025.
Other media
A drama CD adaptation of the manga's first volume was released in Japan on December 25, 2009.A stage play adaptation of the manga ran at the Zepp Blue Theater Roppongi in Tokyo from May 12 to May 21, 2017. It starred Hideo Ishiguro as Dimitri and Mari Iriki as Azusa or Alice. A filmed performance was released on DVD in Japan in October 2017.