However, during the engagement party (the one with Eleanor Campbell), he unexpectedly meets Emma again, who is Dorothea Molders' companion at the time. His change affected everyone around him, including Hakim. In his own perspectives, he never stopped regretting losing Emma, but he would live his life in the 'upper class side' as his father expected him to be. He began to work very hard, attending social meetings and took care of his family's business. After Emma's departure, William changed drastically. In the manga, William had told his father about Emma but his father had never seen Emma (different with the anime). He often intercepts her coming from Covent Garden on Regent Street. He develops feelings for Emma after their first meeting. As his father's heir, he is under tremendous stress to not only take over the family business but also marry a girl from another wealthy family, preferably into the peerage. He is the eldest son of the "House of Jones", a very wealthy merchant middle class family that is attempting to rise into the gentry. William Jones ( ウィリアム・ジョーンズ, Wiriamu Jōnzu) Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese) Ted Lewis (English) The male protagonist of the story. She was also a well-liked maid among the staff due to her honesty and diligence in her work, as well as the children who often played with her. Trollope's (Aurelia Jones') house and also the trip to London alongside a few menservants who could also speak English. There, she becomes a favorite because of her fluency in English, and for this her mistress always brings Emma on distant trips, e.g. Stownar, Emma leaves London, intending to go back to her village, but she ended up meeting with a maid who worked for the Mölders (Meredith in the English translation of the manga) family, German immigrants who live in a mansion in York, and Emma is hired as a servant in the Mölders' household. In later chapters of the manga, it is revealed that Emma can also read a bit of French. Stownar, Emma was taught to read, write, and a variety of other subjects. She managed to work odd jobs for food, until she was taken under the wing of Kelly Stownar, as her housemaid. She managed to escape but became lost in London. Originally from a poor seaside Yorkshire village, she was kidnapped as a young girl to be sold to a London brothel. She falls in love with William Jones from the first time they meet. Characters Emma ( エマ, Ema) Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (Japanese) Eileen Montgomery (English) The main protagonist of the story. Its popularity has sparked an interest in English maid cosplay, even going as far as having the official Emma anime website selling Emma's "costume" for ¥45,000. The manga has a cult following in Japan, even going as far as opening an Emma-inspired and themed maid café in Shinjuku. The author and illustrator of the manga, Kaoru Mori, is a self-professed Anglophile, and attempted to recreate 1895 London with meticulous detail. Both the manga and anime versions of Emma are unique for being set in a setting seldom visited by either medium without some fantasy or speculative element.
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