Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette

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Synonyms: Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette

Japanese: レ・ミゼラブル少女コゼット

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Type: TV

Episodes: 52

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2007 to Dec 30, 2007

Premiered: Winter 2007

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Nippon Animation

Source: Novel

Genre: Drama

Theme: Historical

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 7.92¹ (scored by 9,664 users)

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Ranked: #747²

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Popularity: #4069

Members: 29,815

Favorites: 278

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Synopsis

In 19th century France, a struggling single mother, Fantine, leaves her three-year-old daughter Cosette in the care of her new acquaintances, the Thernadiers. Unfortunately, Cosette's caretakers prove to be anything but loving, and the poor girl is subjected to repeated abuse and forced servitude. Still, she endures the torment in the hopes of seeing her mother once again.

One night, while doing errands for her host family, Cosette is assisted by an honorable stranger named Jean Valjean. After a brief conversation with the young girl, Jean acknowledges her as the type of person he has been seeking and rescues her from the clutches of the Thernadiers. They make their way to a nearby town where Cosette enjoys a new life thanks to her savior.

Under Jean's guidance, Cosette promises to help others with her newfound freedom. She pledges to heal the nation, ensuring that no one else suffers her fate. Though the road ahead is paved with tragedies left by the French Revolution, this idealistic girl will not rest until France is freed from poverty and suffering.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Valjean, Jean

Main

Sugawara, Masashi
Japanese

Cosette

Main

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

Thénardier, Éponine

Main

Sasamoto, Yuuko
Japanese

Javert

Main

Matsuyama, Takashi
Japanese

Gavroche

Main

Kobayashi, Yumiko
Japanese

Pontmercy, Marius

Main

Katsu, Anri
Japanese

Enjolras

Supporting

Kishi, Yuuji
Japanese

Alan

Supporting

Katsu, Anri
Japanese

Combeferre

Supporting

Hatano, Wataru
Japanese

Courfeyrac

Supporting

Takemoto, Eiji
Japanese

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Yamamoto, Kouji

Producer

Sakurai, Hiroaki

Director, Storyboard

Hayase, Hiroyuki

Sound Director

Akagi, Hiroaki

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"Kaze no Mukou" by Yuki Saito

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Ending Theme

"Ma maman (Watashi no Okasan)" by Yuki Saito

Reviews

Jan 4, 2009

bubonicwoodchuck

Recommended

Story - 8
What can I say? Shoujo Cosette is an adaptation of my favorite book of all time, Les Miserables, and it's overall surprisingly faithful to the original text. Especially when you consider that SC is geared toward children, and the original is...well, definitely not.

That said, SC gets an 8 and not a perfect 10 from me because in their effort to keep the anime kid-friendly, Nippon Animation committed some pretty grievous crimes against the original canon. I'll keep it vague here, but I'll settle for saying that some characters who ought to have died survive for the dumbest reasons. Overall, though, their attention to ... canon is commendable indeed.

Art - 4
This, I think, is where SC suffers most. Nippon's animation budget clearly isn't high, and I suppose they do the best with what they're given, but aside from the occasional lovely background, the animation here is sorely lacking and, at times, looks like it might've been passable a decade ago at best. Character designs are decent - Valjean is especially well done - but also somewhat bland. Overall, this is the weakest point of the anime.

Sound - 6
The sound in SC is decent enough, but nothing special. The fact that the same OP and ED are kept throughout the entire anime rather detracts from it as well, especially after Cosette herself has long grown up and tons of new characters have been introduced. Only one or two tracks stand out in my mind at all - good, but nothing memorable.

Character - 8
SC does an overall good job of keeping true to the original characters. Javert could stand to be wittier, and Enjolras could stand to be less - well, nice, but all in all most characters keep true to their original. Characters in the anime who weren't in the book are surprisingly few and far between, and all serve their purpose fairly well - especially Alain.

Again, Character is an 8 and not a 10 because of one unforgivable change to one character in particular.

Enjoyment - 8
As a die-hard Mizzie who was initially very dubious indeed about anything remotely resembling an anime adaptation for children, I was surprised how I kept coming back to watch SC every week, despite my own limited Japanese and the decided lack of subs. Only once did I even consider dropping it, and that hesitation was fairly short-lived. Nippon Animation manages to transcend its clearly limited animation budget and make SC something actually worth watching.

Overall - 7
Overall, SC is an admirable effort by Nippon to adapt a classic work of literature into a television show, several minor pitfalls notwithstanding. It's an enjoyable anime for even those unacquainted with Victor Hugo's masterpiece, and the vocabulary is simple enough that even someone who doesn't know the language can probably follow along (though I do wish someone would hurry up and sub it). The only real downsides are a few instances of bowdlerization and the aforementioned poor animation.

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Jan 2, 2014

PaleMint

Recommended

I recently read Les Misérables in class and completely fell in love with it. I googled "Les Misérables anime", not expecting to find much, and was very pleased to discover such a lengthy and faithful adaptation. There were a few changes here and there, but most I didn't mind, and some I liked. For example, a large portion of this series is from Cosette's point of view, which I actually found nice because in the novel, the reader hardly knows her and she is written very passively. In the anime she shows strength and personality that we never saw in the book.
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May 16, 2021

AgentBishop

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i've never been this angry while watching an anime
i really wanted to punch the monitor, this is one of the worst adaptations i've ever seen
this is supposed to be an extremely tragic story, Cosette is supposed to be a symbol of an innocent girl who when through hell

i don't think you guys have seen the previous anime adaptation, the character design was EXTREMELY bad in the older anime adaptation, but in that adaptation the direction was really good, Cosette was truly miserable, there was no fucking Chu chu! (the fucking dog), there was no little brother to secretly help her, there was no happy moment, ...

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