#shoujo cosette rewatch

[maripr]

i fucking love shojo cosette bc it's the only series where i see such a nice black fit with nice shoes like that and i'm like "this is totally cosette" and instead

#javert #inspector javert #shoujo cosette #if you don't think sc javert is hot ur wrong btw #his design is different from every other character and that clashes but #he has such cunty energy #and his small waist helps #mari watches things #rewatches in this case

[k1ttnz]

#more. #my art #fanart #sketches #shoujo cosette #les mis #les miserables #yes ive started rewatching #im literally going insane #also im like extremely sleep deprived #teehee #cosette

[aflamethatneverdies]

top 10 comfort shows

thank you @sainteverge for tagging me xD i don't think i have 10 though. I need to find more comfort shows.

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: it's sentai, it's for selling toys to 5 year olds, it's an anniversary season, it's also still the best sentai season imo made with a lot of heart and one i watch over and over again. and also write fic for. pirates fighting against an Empire and in a polycule too, what more do i want. lies, i want more. but for now i settle for rewatching over and over. it's also really good during depressive episodes because it isn't complicated to understand and be emotionally invested in. i've used it to get through depressive swings this year lol.

Revolutionary girl utena: this show- y'all. i'm still in the haze from how good this show is and i have thoughts, so many thoughts but so many of the rambly variety and i've already started rewatching and just, this show is so good. soo soo good.

Natsume Yuujinchou: a slice of life anime about seeing youkai but really about being ostracised and shunned and about being weird and not feeling fully human and finding community with other weirdos. i really love its calm pace in certain moods, i love the characters and i want to know everything about Reiko. when will the seventh season come out, my crops are dying.

Black Sails: I've watched it twice, both times got something new out of it to chew on. It's a well plotted, well paced show and I can rewatch it again tbh.

Granada Holmes: It's Sherlock Holmes, it's Watson. It's got good acting. It's got a great read on the characters as they exist in the books. 'nuff said.

Shoujo Cosette: i don't think it needs a lot of explanation. It has a lot of rewatch potential and ability to wreck you during Fantine's scenes. It's good.

tagging @pilferingapples @lemeute @bodhimcbodeface and anyone else who wants to do this, really.

#personal #memes

[cherriiramen]

I FINALLY FOUND THE PROPER TRANSLATION TO THIS SONG

!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!

Not many are familiar with the anime adaption of Les Mis “Shoujo Cosette” and I find it quite saddening to realise as it was something that practically made up my ENTIRE childhood and even years later, it hits harder than ever. (psst psst it’s actually what introduced me to Les Mis in the first place, most my fellow Arabs know where I’m coming from here 👁)

I’m aware that very few are fans of this version, and the rest either aren’t familiar with it or dislike it for the small changes in storyline and character designs. Or the fact that it they had to mild it down a little for younger audiences. It never got the recognition it deserved unfortunately and it gathered dust as I grew older, but I always rewatch it whenever I can for nostalgia. And since I don’t see many posts on it, I wanted to give it a shot myself as a huge fan of this version myself and see how others find it. Hopefully more fans would sprout out or join the squad. 😌

Before I strand away from the main point of this post, I finally managed to find the English translation to that somber little Japanese song that played in the background as the barricade boys died.

“Watashi ni dekiru koto” which roughly translates to “Something I can do”

This by far might be the only version without background noises available, because as I said, this anime sadly isn’t very popular.

Let’s hope it stays there and YouTube doesn’t eventually decide to demolish it off the face of earth 172627 years late.💀

To finally understand the lyrics hits even harder, especially when it could literally be taken into Grantaire’s perspective of Enjolras and the whole life or death situation.

Something I Can Do

All the time, I have taken pride in your courage.

I wonder what I can do now?

No matter who you were, you would lose sight of the future sometimes.

If I ever want to start over, it’s because I’m by your side.

The word “happiness” is too far away; I can’t reach it.

Your precious wish, I pray that it would be granted.

Say, look, even the blooming flowers in the fields have a strong will to live on.

Even if a cold rain strikes against them, they’ll only shine more.

To live on is to fight; that’s what I believe in, no matter when.

I will give you, the one I love so much, a heartwarming thank you.

For someone who can’t be replaced, I’ll love you with all my heart.

You have taught me sadness, that’s the best thing ever.

And so, open the new door and slowly go forth..

And for those who want context, I went on my own little research to find this scene

#les miserables #shoujo cosette #enjolras #grantaire #grantaire x enjolras #Granjolras #Enjoltaire #feuilly #Joly #jehan prouvaire #combeferre #jean valjean #marius pontmercy #les amis de l'abc #barricade boys #courfeyrac #Victor Hugo #anime #rants ‘n rambles #bossuet

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

wendy's current weeb watchlist, as a reminder to myself but also for your viewing pleasure i guess

★ = already started

SHOWS:

★ Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

★ Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken (still hate the official title btw. The fansubs were right to call it Don't Mess with the Video Club! or w/e; much clearer.)

★ Mushishi

★ Lupin III: Part 4 (JP ver.)

★ Sherlock Hound (barely started)

★ Revolutionary Girl Utena

★ Tokyo Mew Mew: New s2

Ping-Pong the Animation

The Tatami Time Machine Blues (sadly not directed by Yuasa this time but I'll gladly revisit the titular Tatami Galaxy)

(longer shows if I have time:

Mob Psycho 100

Trigun (the ’90s one)

World Masterpiece Theater corner:

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother

Anne of Green Gables

The Story of Perrine

★ I just remembered I never finished Shoujo Cosette like 10 years ago either. Maybe I'll finally do that dgfjfjfkl)

MOVIES (short version bc this is actually crazy long in my mind/Letterboxd watchlisthole):

Mind Game

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Perfect Blue

Paprika

Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa

Lupin corner, though tbh I'm not super motivated to watch these when I could just rewatch ones I know are good:

Lupin III: Italian Game (iirc this is just some Part 4 episodes smushed into a single special but I'm almost finished w/Part 4 anyway so why not)

Lupin III: Prison of the Past (literally only interested bc of the Jigen Ex™ and the Jigen/Zenigata subtext ngl)

Lupin III: Seven Days Rhapsody (I've heard this one's fun but I just. hate the look of the mid-aughts specials)

#that's enough for now #i DID finally finish y.uri on ice. it was cute #personal

[ferociousconscience]

Hi! Hope its ok to ask, and sorry if its already been answered before: Do you have fav Les Mis adaption? Or a few?

Thank you for asking me!! I've not watched all of them, considering how many there are floating around out there and how many are sadly lost, but. I have spent this year hunting down and watching every adaptation I could. A special thanks to @ueinra for a lot of help in that regard. I recently made a Letterboxd account and a List just for Les Mis. I've plans to go through and review them properly, (Currently I only have Shoujo Cosette reviewed!) but I'd be happy to try to coalesce my thoughts on my absolute favorite for you, that being the four-part silent* Les Miserables (1925) under this read-more! Hiyah!

It's... Hard to grasp my feelings on LM1925, considering how special it is to me. These films really made me love the idea of cinema again. I had never seen a silent movie before, and frankly I thought they were one of those things that were a bit out of reach for me, but wow I am so so happy I watched LM1925. Not only is it a fantastic adaptation of LM, it's also just a fantastic set of movies (miniseries??) in general. The casting, the acting, the sets, the locations, the attention to detail, the quality of the visuals (which often are just frankly stunningly beautiful), the pacing, the atmosphere. Everything just works and is faithful to the feeling of reading the novel. (I will say I watched it without the accompany music at first, but have since gone back and listened to it overtop on a rewatch, and wow what a cool oddity it is. The Sims 1 soundtrack but with a surreal and often nightmarish twist.) I adore Gabriel Gabrio as Valjean. He really captures the idea that Valjean can both be noble, kind, and fearsome all in one. And Jean Toulout as scrunkly and lively Javert...!! I truly love him. I think them and Sandra Milovanoff as Fantine (less so as her playing Cosette, too, wish they would have cast another person) give absolutely amazing performances. This is also a great adaptation for the Gorbeau part of the book, ESPECIALLY Suzanne Nivette as Eponine, wow! What an Eponine! Probably my favorite Eponine. Same with Thenardier, both the Eponine and Thenardier in this one are tied with LM1972 for me. I also just like the... what I'll call "Theater Acting" performances I've seen in this and in the other early films I've watched since. The thick makeup. The funny expressions. The dramatic poses. All this would be considered overacting in the modern day, but to me it just feels alive. It reminds me of a lot of animations, I suppose, and that delights me. I also love love love that they didn't attempt to make big changes to the material at hand (Hell, they even touch on Waterloo in a way I thought was cool!). LM1925 and Shoujo Cosette made me realise that the longer a Les Mis adaptation is, typically the better it is to me. (with. One exception off the top of my head...) I think by the time I had watched all the other adaptations of both the novel and the musical, I had grown fatigued over the different ways films would try to condense things into 2 hours, and leave a lot on the cutting room floor (even if that usually means they focus more on the J vs JVJ aspect that I always have a weakness for), or when they try to cram everything into said 2 hours and turns it into a pacing nightmare. LM1925 avoids all that!

I feel I'm rambling on, so I'll rapid fire some stuff off. I love that they filmed in the actual msurm. I love that they kept things really grungy when the film calls for it. I love the scenes of the barricade, especially the scenes with the national guards spilling in. I love the subtle changes to the valvert side of things, it's truly one of the better adaptations for the shippers. I need to get on making some gifsets. If you love Les Mis, or just film in general, I think you owe it to yourself to watch LM1925. It's free! It's on the Internet Archive! There are download buttons or you can stream it! Please do! And tell me your thoughts on it!

#fc consternation tag #thank you againnnnnn!!

[justgayrevolutionnaries]

Been rewatching Shoujo Cosette and oh boy episode 44 slaps HARD uh

#why do i keep making bad life choices #les mis #les miserables #shoujo cosette

[everyonewasabird]

Brickclub 5.3.7 “Sometimes we go aground when we expect to get ashore”

I do really love Hugo’s plotting. It’s so big, and he goes so hard. Through some combination of magic system and symbolism and realism, Jean Valjean has reached a place where something that feels like it might come to him in a specifically personal nightmare--he’s nearly escaped, only to find one more prison gate blocking his way!--is a realistic sequence of events. And Valjean has put in superhuman effort, and he’s superhumanly tired.

It’s Providence now, or nothing.

@fremedon complained about Donougher’s God-intruding translation of “L'épuisement aboutissait à l'avortement.”(“Exhaustion ended in abortion”), but FMA does essentially the same thing:

It was over. All that Jean Valjean had done was use­ less. God refused him.

In context it reads like more free indirect speech than like Word of God, but it’s still intruding an idea of God where Hugo didn’t--and/or indicating specific despair at God in the moment that Valjean is closest to God in the entire book. Which is a Choice.

Hugo is in fact VERY upfront here that the entity at work in this is the Fatality Spider.

They were both caught in the gloomy and immense web of death, and Jean Valjean could feel, running over those black threads trembling in the darkness, the appall­ing spider.

Which, actually, raises an interesting idea about the God-Fatality dichotomy, in that it feels like Valjean actually knows the deal. Even in his thoughts, he doesn’t blame God for this. He knows what’s at work here.

I’m interested in the way Providence uses Thenardier as the agent who can fix this. It feels like it has a lot to do with Thenardier’s myopic selfishness--he never sees the big picture, he never cares about the big picture, and that makes him a weird little oddly effective tool in the hands of Providence..... and an unthinkably devastating one in the hands of Fatality, who's going to have the last word there unfortunately.

And we end with Valjean thinking about Cosette. I think Hugo wants it to be a moment of pathos and Oh No, but I really, really want it to feel more like a reckoning. Valjean left her with no note, no provision for her future if he didn’t make it out, not even so much as a map to where the money was buried, and he walked in RIGHT AFTER Combeferre made a whole speech about what can go wrong when men go off and die without thinking about their families. And even so, it doesn’t feel like we’re necessarily supposed to be saying “YES. YOU IDIOT. WHAT ABOUT COSETTE??”

I’ve been rewatching Shoujo Cosette lately, and it’s such a breath of fresh air, how much that show bothers to think through what it would be like to Cosette experiencing all this.

#brickclub #lm 5.3.7

[lymoon00]

2024 march will be the best memory of my life , it's so special , long , it's ramadan , rewatching shoujo cosette 3 times in a row , falling so SO hard for enjolras , and .. i started praying almost regularly and i hope i'll keep in ... and .. i lost weight !! , my hair got taller , i cried alot (which is good !) classes was online for school maintenance (that'll never happen again in my whole life)

and wait .. what else ? we got bnha's season 7 trailer ! Oh god that was so good

i remember last ramadan we got dabi in leaks ..most of last year's ramadan was in april ! also now but we're gonna finish it on 9th !

ramadan is so special , the best month of the hijri year ✨️

#i talk too much #no one care but i want to share

[thelawsofdaylight]

no thoughts head empty only the enjolras/combeferre sunset scene from shoujo cosette playing on a 24/7 loop in my brain

#i haven't been posting much recently because i broke my laptop and needed to get it fixed #but i have been binge watching shoujo cosette on my phone !!! #and i need somewhere to yell about it and about this scene in particular #because shoujo cosette enjolras and combeferre are basically a couple and i love them #shoujo cosette rewatch

[gracie-p8-officialblog]

Along with Raoul and Cosette in that great pantheon of fictional characters who get trashed on for no good reason besides the fact that they're nice people who fall in love, you know who else belongs in their ranks? Hitomi Shizuki from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

#hitomi shizuki #Pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #mahou shoujo madoka magica #magical girl madoka magica #Poto #cosette fauchelevent #Les mis #Grace spills tea #I just rewatched PMMM and hoo boy #I have A LOT of feelings on how Hitomi's being trashed on by the fandom #raoul de chagny

[tearfully]

me, not even halfway through the intro to Shoujo Cosette: [ugly crying]

#why am I rewatching thiS #les mis #cosette #shoujo cosette #valjean #gif #anime #kal watches shoujo cosette

[taye-x]

#les mis #les miserables #shoujo cosette #victor hugo #valjean #cosette #javert #enjolras #eponine #marius #i recently rewatched the 1998 one with Athena #mine #fuck it was terrible

[catie-does-things]

Seriously what do you think about shoujo cosette? As adaptation and animation and voice acting.., for me it's all excellent.

I haven’t done a full series watch through in years but I did rewatch bits of it recently and I still unironically enjoy it.

And I now enjoy it more than the book because the ways in which it simplifies Hugo’s nuances or makes changes to the plot all...kind of get rid of aspects of the book I no longer enjoy.

The biggest one is Javert’s suicide. That ending for that character just no longer holds any appeal for me, even as a tragedy. Letting Javert come through his crisis of conscience with a changed outlook is just so much more interesting and so much more satisfying.

Shoujo Cosette can be hokey at times and yeah, their ending for Javert isn’t particularly sophisticated. But it’s an idea I like done ham-handedly, rather than an idea I don’t like done with sophistication, and I’ll take the former on this one.

#les mis #shoujo cosette #catie answers things #anonymous

[starberry-cupcake]

After reading your reviews of the BBC series I was surprised by what you said of Liam Neeson's Valjean in the 98 movie because I remember really liking that version even with everything they cut. But I just noticed it's on Netflix so I rewatched it for the first time in years and I'm so shook??? Valjean is legit abusive??? I think I must have repressed all memory of it or something. I think the only good adaptation I've seen besides the musical is the French 1934 movie...

Oh god, 98 Les Mis…it’s in my least favorites list, I don’t remember the specifics of some others right now to say for sure if it’s the absolute least but it could be. I should make myself a marathon of the ones I have, at least, and think about it more carefully, but 98 is painful for me to watch. A lot of changes are bizarre and even some are cartoonish, Valjean and Javert are all over the place. 

I think that with Les Mis, adaptations have a lot to do with the focus, because it’s not just the length and amount of content what makes it always abridged in adaptations, but the fact that the focus of the story is in many different places throughout. Some books are huge but they focus on 2 or 3 characters in one core plot, so they’re easier to follow through. With Les Mis, though, the different focuses make it so that most adaptations tend to focus on one or two characters and go from there, depending on what they want to focus on. 

For example, Shoujo Cosette focuses more on Cosette and Marius than many other adaptations do because it’s meant to be a shoujo anime; modern au webseries tend to focus more on Les Amis because they are most often made by and for an audience of tumblr-era fandom that identifies in age, social context, political discourse, etc with that group; the musical has a bigger focus on character tragedy and grand emotional climaxes more than specific political context, because of its medium and the 80s expectations of a classic-type musical, so it not only puts Valjean, Javert and Fantine to the forefront but also “up-scales” Éponine over other characters to establish her as a romantic underdog; the Japanese drama that came out this year and I haven’t seen yet seems to be changing a lot of elements of the story to fit the narrative of a modern crime thriller suited for the type of cast and slot it took on the jdrama landscape; the Dallas production of the musical set the story in a contemporary environment directly linked to the political and social situation of apartheid South Africa because it was Liesl Tommy’s reality to depict and represent her own identity, and so on…

In essence, what I mean is, most often than not the optics of an adaptation and the perspective they choose to develop with more intent says a lot about the media context and the optics of the one adapting. So even without considering quality and other “objective” elements (as objective as media criticism can be, at least), it’s also important to note that someone’s favorite adaptation may have to also do with what aspect of the brick is more important for them personally, or maybe a blend of different ones depending on those things. 

Which I think is super interesting and something that could be an amazing dissertation I’d absolutely read. 

Also, thanks for reading my silly reviews :’) 

#this is a long response you probably didn't want and I'm sorry if that's the case :'( #randomcat1832 #ask #les mis #les miserables

[justgayrevolutionnaries]

In case y'all didn't get it yes I am back at rewatching shoujo Cosette and yes I am gonna make it everyone's problem you can't stop me

#ellie's thoughts #shoujo cosette