Here's the description I used to have under my Oscar and André cel:

This cel is something of a mystery to me. It was sold to me by a reputable dealer as a Rose of Versailles cel, and I certainly don't blame them for their labelling. I certainly thought it was a Rose of Versailles cel. No one I've showed it to, including the whole Cels Forum has ever said otherwise.

However, while Not-Oscar looks so much like Oscar, Not-André is, well, not André. Take a look in my Rose of Versailles screencap gallery and it becomes obvious--by the point in the show where André has short hair, his face is much less round than Not-André's. The real André also never had quite such short hair.

Furthermore, this scene never takes place in the show. There are scenes where one might expect a pose like this, but Oscar and André never stand quite this way in any of the 40 TV episodes or the 41st episode/compilation movie.

So, what I have here is a cel of a character who looks just like Oscar with a guy who has his hair down over one eye, both wearing just the kind of shirts the Rose of Versailles characters wear, in a pose that never actually happened. What is it? It's not cut footage, because Not-André's character design is wrong. It's not a normal fan cel, because it has registration holes and a sequence number. I don't think it could be a fake, because who would fake a scene that never happened, with a wildly off-spec character design? It's a slightly awkward pose, and even when I bought the cel after it had been through at least one dealer, it didn't cost enough to be worth forging.

What's left? Was _any_ other footage ever animated for Rose of Versailles? Takarazuka commercials? Ads for manga or LD reprints? Could there be another show with such similar designs? If you know, please tell me!

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