History Manga / Innocent

* RuleOfSymbolism: The series goes into abstract imaginery for analogies very often, from walking skeletons and surreal art, to people growing giant and smashing buildings and Marie Antoinette using Website/Twitter.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Despite being lead to the guillotine, Antoinette calmly [[AgonyOfTheFeet steps on]] [[spoiler: the foot of her executioner, Marie]] while saying her FamousLastWords: "I am sorry, monsieur. I meant not to do it." In this version of the French Revolution, Antoinette stepped on her executioner's foot deliberately.

* GoOutWithASmile: Played with, since [[spoiler: Marie]] is already a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] when she sports one to [[spoiler: Charles]].
** Antoinette gives Marie a smug version as she calmly walks towards her fate on the platform.

* ThisIsWrongonSoManyLevels: Both the chapter where Marie is branded by her grandmother and that chastity belt scene. With Marie, you have the torture scene of a child, a completely screwed chronology (because between the écartelement and that scene, Nicolas somehow managed to spend 15 days in prison and later become a monk. Why the hell did Anne-Marthe wait so much to punish her granddaughter is beyond me) and the fact the chapter is called "a young femme fatal" or something in those lines. The scene with the chastity belt on Delphine, we are showed [[spoiler: that she get's her privy pierced against her will]] and is putted in a chastity belt under lock and key, which makes you wonder why it was necessary because her folds were pierced shut. Also, the key somehow helps. Both scenes are complitely fictional.

* TortureTechnician: Subyss, who is called in to extract information from Damiens, but fails.
Jean-Baptiste is shown torturing his son at one point.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: While a majority of the characters either eventually die, have died before their actual date, or their fates are left unknown, the Innocent series ends with a summary of the downfall of the aristocracy with the eventual abdication of Napoleon III in 1832, and the abolishing of executions in France in 1981. While Marie and Charles were unable to achieve their dreams when they were alive, their dreams were realized centuries after their deaths. Marie appearing as a ghost also helps Charles come to terms with his failures and forgive himself.]]

* TortureAlwaysWorks: Played straight with Charles, subverted with Damien. Still portrayed in a positive light.

* CoitusUninterrupts: In Innocent, Charles decides to become a monk instead of being an executioner anymore, and goes to his parents' room to speak about it with his father. When he hears his parents being...."busy", Charles snuffs out the candles he held, and opens the door a crack at the mention of his mother asking Jean-Baptiste if Charles would be considered his successor. Knowing that Charles is watching, Jean-Baptiste doesn't stop until the...."deed" is completed, saying that Charles is too weak to be an executioner, and that children are nothing but puppets, and more children can be made if need be.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Quite a few examples but the most noteworthy is the Count De Luxe, who burns down a school with children inside simply because he hated the idea of poor people getting the same education as nobles. Notably even other aristocrats are disgusted when they learn the full story.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: While a majority of the characters either eventually die, have died before their actual date, or their fates are left unknown, the Innocent series ends with a summary of the downfall of the aristocracy with the eventual abdication of Napoleon III in 1832, and the abolishing of executions in France in 1981. While Marie and Charles were unable to achieve their dreams when they were alive, their dreams were realized centuries after their deaths.]]

* BiTheWay: Charles has a homosexual experience with the son of a noble, but later shows that he is interested in women as well, as per [[spoiler: his sexual experience with Marie Jeanne]]. The same goes for Marie-Joseph who gets involved with multiple partners from both genders. It's also implied that, despite her disdain towards men,[[spoiler: her first love, Alain Bernard, was the only person she genuinely loved in the romantic sense of the word]].
** Marie Antoinette starts having an affair with Hans Axel von Fersen after her [[spoiler: fallout with Marie-Joseph]].

* AmazonianBeauty: Marie-Joshep, due to her rigorous training from an early age in order to live up to the role of an executioner.

* BiTheWay: Charles has a homosexual experience with the son of a noble, but later shows that he is interested in women as well, as per [[spoiler: his sexual experience with Marie Jeanne]]. The same goes for Marie-Joshep who gets involved with multiple partners from both genders. It's also implied that, despite her disdain towards men,[[spoiler: her first love, Alain Bernard, was the only person she genuinely loved in the romantic sense of the word]].

* BiTheWay: Charles has a homosexual experience with the son of a noble, but later shows that he is interested in women as well, as per [[spoiler: his sexual experience with Marie Jeanne]]. The same goes for Marie-Joshep who, despite her disdain towards men, gets involved with multiple partners from both genders. It's also implied that[[spoiler: her first love, Alain Bernard, was the only person she genuinely loved in the romantic sense of the word]].

* LipstickLesbian: Marie Joseph. Played with during her affair with Marie Antoinette. Due to the female executioner's androgynous look, she's able to switch between this and * ButchLesbian with relative ease.

* LipstickLesbian: Marie-Joseph.

* BiTheWay: Charles has a homosexual experience with the son of a noble, but later shows that he is interested in women as well, as per [[spoiler: his sexual experience with Marie Jeanne]].

** In chapter 38 of Innocent Rouge, there's a page of Marie wiping away some blood from her lips while it's snowing out. Whether this is just because of chapped lips or the [[spoiler: symptoms of the unspecified illness that she revealed to Charles in the final chapter of Rouge]], is speculation at this point.

In 18th century France, during the last days of the french monarchy in the reign of Louis XVI, the Sanson family, appointed as the royal executioners by the king himself, are struggling with the reluctance of the eldest son, Charles-Henri Sanson, to succeed his father. The story centers around Charles' struggle as a kind, sensitive young man, as he faces his harsh fate as the "Monsieur de Paris", and is changed radically in the process. Over time, the series also begins to focus on his sister, the cold, morbid and rebellious Marie Joseph as she struggles to navigate the patriarchal society of the time to become an executioner herself, and her eventual entanglement with Marie Antoinette.