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I haven't read either, but was wondering if the manga _Emma_ is the same as
the novel by Jane Austen under the same name.

They have several similarities:

  * They're both set in Victorian England.
  * They both have the same title
  * They are both romance stories

Jane Austen is a famous author, and it's conceivable that someone could adapt
her novel into a new graphic format. However, none of the descriptions I've
read of the manga mention Ms. Austen.

Are the series related?


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Is the manga Emma a retelling of Jane Austen's novel?


It's a reasonable question (see _Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo_ ), but
I think the answer is **no**. Note that I also have not read either work, but
from looking at the Wikipedia articles for the manga
[_Emma_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28manga%29) by Kaoru Mori and the
novel [_Emma_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28novel%29) by Jane Austen:

  * The manga _Emma_ is set in 1895 in the Victorian Era. This is much later than the novel _Emma_ , which was published during the [Regency Era](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_era) in 1815.
  * One of the defining features of the title character in Jane Austen's novel is that, unlike the heroines of earlier Austen work, she is independently wealthy and runs her own household. The anime's Emma is a commoner, kidnapped as a child for a brothel, who escaped to the streets and was taken in and brought up as a maid by a wealthy family. She is a diligent and hard worker, whereas Austen's Emma was described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like" and is said on the Wikipedia article to have "a strong sense of class".
  * Anime's Emma lives in London, whereas Jane Austen's Emma lives in a small country estate in Surrey.

It is possible that the manga's author, Kaoru Mori, incorporated some
influence from Austen's work, since she's a self-declared Anglophile,

> The author and illustrator of the manga, Kaoru Mori, is a self-professed
> Anglophile, [...]
>
> ([Overview](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28manga%29#Overview) \- 2nd
> sentence)

But overall, it doesn't look like a direct adaptation of Jane Austen's _Emma_.


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They are not the same at all.

I have read the novel and I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of _Emma_. It's
like saying Michael Jordan and Michael J. Fox are the same because they have
the same name.


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If there is any relation between the two, it is scarce at best. While I didn’t
read Austen’s novel, I watched the anime adaption of _Emma,_ the manga. A
pretty long scene (I would almost call it a key scene) is set in [the Crystal
Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace) which was built for
the [1851 Great
Exposition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition). Austen’s
novel was published in 1815; way before anybody even thought of the palace.

It would be conceivable that some other publicly accessable exhibition site
housed a similar scene in Austen’s novel, but then why go such great lengths
transferring the entire scene and thus the entire work to a point in time
decades later? I think it’s just way too unlikely; that’s not really the kind
of thing you do when adapting a story.


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Actually, there is a manga named [_Emma_](https://www.amazon.co.uk/YOKO-
HANABUSA-EMMA-HA/dp/8897349897) and which is based on Jane Austen's novel, and
it's from an artist Yoko Hanabusa.

I think you're confused because there are two mangas and animes with the same
title and pretty much nearly everything else but the role of the major
character.


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That's a [yes](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1927925355) but
**also** a [no](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316302236). Very
interesting that both are set in England in the 19th Century.

On the side of yes, there is a manga that is a direct adaption called _Emma:
Manga Classics_ by Stacy King (who performed the adaption), Jane Austin (who
of course wrote the original story, and Tse (who was the illustrator)

By contrast, the series of manga simply titled _Emma_ by Kaoru Mori is a
completely different English tale from a similar time period but about 50
years removed.


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