Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Chevalier, Le Chevalier D'Eon Japanese: シュヴァリエ Le Chevalier D'Eon
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Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 2, 2006 to Feb 23, 2007
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
L represents licensing company
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Synopsis18th Century, France. Lia de Beaumont, loyal servant of Versailles and its King, Louis XV, is found dead in the river Seine. Floating inside a coffin, on which the word "Psalms" was written, her body had been poisoned by mercury, thus preserving decay. According to the Church, the soul that belonged to a corpse incapable of being consumed by the soil will forever wander in the human realm, unable to go to Heaven.
This greatly affects D'Eon de Beaumont, Lia's brother and one of the king's spies. He vows to discover by whom - and why - she was murdered. But he never expected that the one who conducting the revenge would be Lia, now possessing D'Eon's body! And what will the knight do when this quest might risk France itself?
History is retold in this supernatural tale of vengeance, loyalty and betrayal. |
Related AnimeAdaptation: Le Chevalier d'Eon
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ZJun
32 of 45 people found this review helpful
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24 of 24 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
10 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Since this is from Production I.G., a studio which I like a lot, I had no doubt in collecting this. It is definitely a good quality anime but of course, its not perfect
Art/ Animation:
Seriously, can you go wrong with a studio that produced something like Ghost In the Shell? The building designs, settings are marvelous, although I admit I'm not familiar with the French architechture, it still managed to capture the western feel. Characters were designed to look realistic and thus, would not appeal to audiences who want either 'moe' or extreme cuteness. The swordfights were perfect, they were swift and clean, wasting no time in trying to bring down the opponent, without any extreme visual moves or 'powering up' like in shounen animes. It is what you'd expect real fencing to be like, fast, graceful but brutal.
Another important thing to note, the 4 musketeers actually looked tired near the last half of the series! This showed how much care the animators put into this, just to show that, well...they are human as well and anyone would be exhausted after the amount of horrid times they had to go through
Sound:
The opening song gives the hint of bravery and patriotism. The ending was beautiful', it gave a melancholic but also with determined feel, which describes Chevalier D'Eon's character perfectly. Not to mention the visuals that came along with the theme, it was a great idea to put the characters with their names and lifespans just in case the viewers get drowned in the sea of complicated french names.
The atmosphere of the anime was further enhanced by the rich orchestral music, composed by none other than Michiru Ooshima, the man responsible for Full metal Alchemist.
Some tracks, especially the one in the opening of the 1st episode 'Owari ni Mata Kotoba Ariki' was the one that gave the most impact.
The voice acting was good, well, at least I couldn't notice any flaws, all their voices fit the characters really well
Story
This was what attracted me to watch this anime. A spy that lived his life half as a man and half as a woman? and that he was only discovered to be a man after his death?That was what happened to the real Chevalier D'Eon. Tow Ubakata took the concept but changed it into an action fantasy novel, where vampires were involved and spells which are casts by 'poets' are the main elements of the story. Also, D'Eon didn't dress up as a woman like what history implied, but he was possessed by his sister, Lia instead and sets out to seek revenge. What impressed me was that even though this turned into a supernatural flick, he still managed to retain the important facts and elements of the actual person's history, plus making it seem logical in a way.
Even then, the story is rather slowly paced, and with the heavy amount of dialogue, it is easy for most viewers to get bored.
There is a twist near the end though which unfortunately, did not surprise me due to the mistake of reading a spoiler posted by another person....
Still, it concluded pretty well
Character:
There are a lot of characters in this anime, each with rather complicated names which does cause confusion eventually. The 4 musketeers are the main characters along with er... D'Eon's sister Lia.
There isn't much to say about D'Eon himself apart from his love for the country and people around him. Other sub-characters like Durand, Robin and Robbespiere were more interesting due to their complex or mysterious characteristics they gave out. They showed more development than D'Eon himself, although this cannot be blamed due to the fact that he had to share his screentime with his sister
There were some underdeveloped characters too, like his fiance, Queen Marie, Madame Pompordour and the duke, but they did not affect too much of the story.
Since this anime focuses mainly on the plot and storyline, the character development pales in comparison, but they still have their own significant characteristics
Overall, this series is definitely a keeper.
I might even rewatch this because of some confusion during the later episodes. Since this has a western setting, japanese voices do not sound that suitable as well, although I don't think I'll watch dubs too since most of those I watched had disappointed me.
Nevertheless, its an excellent anime worth watching if you like a unique plot. But not recommended for people who just want to watch it for action.
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Rampant
14 of 20 people found this review helpful
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24 of 24 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
The reason that I enjoyed this anime more than others might have is the stellar exploration and explanation for (mostly) genuine political occurrences, including what others did talk about, which was the real Le Chevalier d'Eon. What is brilliant about the Le Chevalier d'Eon character is that it takes the real life singular, makes it two characters here, and then brings them back together again. It explains the real life fall and ascension of monarchs, but with these made up characters and 'Psalms' playing a huge influence that was not there in real life.
Now, the reason I only gave the story an 8 despite this is that they never explore the concept of the Psalms fully enough. All we find it is about how the situation developed, but it does not focus on the actual nature of the Psalms as pertains to each person or their general nature nearly as much as I would have liked.
An aspect I disliked about the story as pertains to characters is that, I assume in an attempt to remain more mysterious, it just hinted at the tension resulting because of its various characters manipulations and motivations, but it never discusses these enough or displays the animosity enough for my tastes. It could have made matters much more grandiose, and it always had this running undercurrent of compromising grandiosity for a false attempt at creating mystery. The only way it is mysterious is in not telling us the motivations clearly enough. I do enjoy the way they tried to weave the tensions unfolding in a kind of 'domino effect' manner, where we see only a few motivations at first, but then more and more.
As for the characters themselves, the worst problem is that D'Eon is a simpering and insufferable wimp for most of the series. Most of the characters are highly enjoyable, however, so do not let this alone put you off. Even Anna, who is highly typical for an anime woman companion, but basically unimportant, character, is not repugnant.
Most of the characters have pretty good voice acting, and definitely contribute more than denigrate to this series. Some characters, however, had fairly boring and unexciting voices, so I rated this as I saw it, which was 'usually exciting, but not enough to be a 9 or a 10'. The music is pretty much never intrusive, and, indeed, this is one of the few anime that is not obsessed with constantly bombarding you with it every single moment. It uses classical music well. The introduction music for each episode is fairly nice, but the ending music is pretty terrible (OST and whatever the ending is? I do not mean a segue into the credits or anything, which happens in some anime).
I enjoyed this series more than I did due to its parts because it was one of the few which seemed perfectly paced and executed for most of the way. Some episodes are not so, but most left me thinking 'wow, that was really 20 minutes?' because it felt like it had been ten or so.
Oh, the reason that I only gave the art an 8 was because of its poor attempt at simulating movement at times during scenes in an attempt to give rapidity or drama (like every time they leave Versailles, it is animated terribly, although I respect the attempt of what impact they wanted, it is just a terrible idea). The mouths do not seem to match up well with the voices at all, but that might be a flaw of the audio being off in my version, so I am not rating it down for that. read more
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Versailles and crossdressing, anyone?
So lets see. The only reason why I finde this 2 series verry similar is the main charachter and the historic theme of bouth animes.In Le Chevalier D'eon as well as in Rose of Versailles we have the main charachter who is stucked betwen 2 faces. The face of a woman or the face of a man. In Rose of versailles Oscar was raised as a man, but she is going to love as a woman. Determinated, courageous and proude as a man, but fragile like a woman. In Le Chevalier D'eon our main charachter, a male is possesed by his twin sisters soul who want's revenge. Traped between the 2 personalites he is confused and at a point doesn't even know who is the real him.In bouth series the confusion because of the 2 faces life apear at some point and finishes when the charachter is finaly accepting the person that he is. In Le chevalier D'on this crisis is a bit more stronger because he is actualy controled by his sisters spirit.If you watched one of this movie for his historical tipe you will surely like the other for the same reason. In bouth the action is situated in France.Corruption, kings failing and the thirst for power. You can finde them all in this animes.Conclusio: if you liked one of them you'll surely like the other.
Both BeruBara and Chevalier feature crossdressing and genderbending main characters in a revolution-era French setting that's as accurate as possible, sans the liberties that, of course, had to be taken to create the story.
Both stories take places in history at the same time and both contains same historical characters, but Le Chevalier D'Eon is much darker and includes supernatural accidents.
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While Le Chevalier retells history, Gankutsuou retells a famous novel. Both have a wide range of characters, each moved by a different and deep feeling, specially that of vengeance. They share the same feel, and the plot development is similar.
Two masterpieces with painful and dramatic stories. Le Chevalier D'eon is based on historic events, while Gankutsuou on famous book. The ending in both anime isn't quite a happy ending. Compared, Le Chevalier D'eon is much more dramatic but also I would say the better one from these two.
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Opening Theme"BORN" by Miwako Okuda
Ending Theme"OVER NIGHT" by Aya
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