Victor Hugo anime-style

[seichan]

RL - When the pressure is on, avoidance per internet keeps me awake. 2 more months til it's hopefully gone.

Les Miserables - Shoujo Cosette 1! As the title suggests, this anime will focus on Cosette.



+ Nice quality animation,
- but Cosette with the huge, round eyes on the huge, round head...is a bit much.
+ Pleasant opening/ending and background music,
- but definitely not the musical.
+ I like how they say Jean Valjean,
- but Valjean's seiyuu is very brick-like.
+ Javert looks pretty darn cool.

Impression~ Fantine the stupid leaves Cosette with some ugly innkeepers since she has a hard time finding a job with a child on hand. Valjean as Mayor Madeleine saves a young thief from being punished. I don't remember seeing any of Nippon Animation's other World Masterpiece Theater works, but I'm fond of re-introducing or remaking classics. Found it hard to really form a great opinion on this one episode. The episode was really laying on the cute, sad, pathetic & angst with a big slab of butter, and I don't think I will watch anymore...well, maybe to see how Javert makes out.

Comments

[oryssein.livejournal.com]

Are you fucking kidding me that there's a Les Misérables anime? AND IT'S SHOUJO?!

Although, I suppose Cosette is the ultimate shoujo shoujo (brainless, "cute," possessing zero foresight, throwing all her hopes in the direction of a random man, pointlessly chasing romance, etc), so maybe it's actually appropriate. I'm still choosing to believe that you're joking and that you drew those screencaps.

I watched a recent-ish episode of Code Ass done by Shinsen, which was much better than the ones subbed by those dumb kids. They still couldn't do anything with the 'plot,' though. I will say, however, that the series has balls. It does ghey aimai AND hetero fanservice... at the same time!! Sometimes with the same characters!!! In the same scene!!!! Now that's cojones. Imbecilic garbage, of course. But still. Cojones.