Audience reviews
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garla6144
I am not one who goes for an anime like this; I am very much an isekai, adventure, and light-hearted comedies. This anime blew me away in a way I was not expecting, one that warrants a review in my opinion, hence why I find myself here. I loved the development. I didn't mean to, but I got emotionally attached; it's very hard not to. The characters, the artwork, the amount of storytelling and detail, this anime is one that I walked into with no honest thoughts on where I was going to be thinking. I honestly found this anime to tug a lot at my heartstrings. It will do that, the investment is similar to being ready to cry ( I only cried at 2 animes ever), and this one made it 3. I have never felt more invested in character relationships, and also seeing the dark side of humanity, yet the ligh…
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
(4/24/2023: I decided to completely rewrite my old review, as it's not up to par with my current reviews and is embarrassingly overly fangirly. For some reason MAL wouldn't let me just replace the old one with new content, so I had to delete my old review)
The year was 2007. It was around that time that I was really starting to dip my toes deeper into the anime fandom beyond just Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or whatever was airing on TV. I was browsing some anime websites, and a promo picture for a new anime called Les Miserables Shoujo Cosette caught my eye. It looked interesting and I wanted to watch it...but at the time, little to no fansubs for it existed, and the few people that saw the anime hated it, dismissing it as a watered down version of the original novel right out of the gate…
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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, it was hell every second, but here she is happy!! she barely is shown to be scared, she barely is shown to be miserable
because there is always some fucking emotional support from chu chu!…
Read at the sourceGiann33
Story: 8/10
Despite the fact that the story is attractive and outstanding, it does not stop falling into the predictable and simple, however these factors do not prevent the enjoyment of the plot.
Art: 6/10
As for the general animation, it can be seen at a glance that it does not intend to stand out in this way, however it is not entirely bad, since the quality is not reduced throughout the series, in addition to the fact that the style used fits perfectly with the period, on the other hand, aspects such as the characters, are characterized by having a fairly successful design in terms of how their personality fits.
Sound: 9/10
To begin with, the seiyuus are very well thought out to adapt to their respective characters, on the other hand each BGM and OST manages to convey very well the e…
Read at the sourcemylifeisnothing
now my judgment might be biased and i haven't read the novel yet but I am reading the french version this year so yea
my opinion might chANGE next time I rewatch it
now I love this anime because of nostalgic it is to me and I did quite cry a lot
the sounds track is amazing its just a shame that the opening and ending are the same there still really its just a shame they had such a small bugjet
the animation is very wack to say the least it is very beautiful at the time but something it just feels flat the watercolor background are always a good point
now I know the main story of less miserable focuses on Fantine rather than Cosette and it a lot darker than the anime but tbh it has quite a lot of drama for a kids show
still a very good show and was very enjoyable tho it is not for…
Read at the sourceOrneryimp97
Les Miserables shoujo cosette is not a series, it's an expirience. The review is sorted to 5 segments:story, characters, animation, impact and a verdict.
1. Story: this is a story of a broken man who escaped the law, got another chance in Life, made a promise to a women and faced his past, but it is secondary, main story is about french revolution, being one big family known as a nation and overcome evil together forever.
2.Characters are amazingly great, main ones, child Cosette a Little girl that wants love, young atractive boy Marius, who wants the revolution and Valjean Jean and Javert to not spoil anything their dynamic is as one of batman and joker they are opposites and rivals forever, one can't exist without the other, one hunted the other for 8 years, and the other was so close to…
Read at the sourceAhmedTheBIGBOI
I was looking forward to this anime cuz i remeberd that i watched it dubbed in arabic in my country when i was little on tv
and i loved it
so i was really hyped for the original work cuz here they remove some parts from the anime to make it kid freindly and such
and i after i finished it
i can only say that it's a masterpeice of a work
Story :
i don't know what i was expecting from something from a writier like victor hugo as i have never read for him
but after this anime i went and bought all his books to read
he is Brilliant
and the anime adapts it perfectly too without ruining the work of art
so it's about 10/10 for me in story
Art/Animation :
it was good. it fits the mood perfectly the animation is smooth and clean for it's time and calm not too fancy to fit the work and it's setting
s…
Read at the sourceHana-Kitsune
To begin with, the anime starts as a very trustful adaptation of the original book, regardless some mostly filler chapters of Cosette, similar to a slice of life, just to enfasise how hard her life was at that time, introducing some minor changes to the original novel. Ok, I take it.
Once Jean Valjean picks up Cosette, the story continues to be really similar to the original one but everything starts to decay once the revolution begins.
From that point until the end, the story feels like some cheesy fan fiction of some reader who didn't want the characters to die. But the problem itself is not that the anime is different from the book; is that everything in the novel was meant to mean something bigger than the plot itself, because it has a really poweful message about social injustice, d…
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This review may contain spoilers. You have been warned.
Well, I have not read the book, so I will review the anime on its own, although I know how the narrative is.
The storyline is very consistent and catchy, but the pace is somewhat tedious. I have a complaint in the final chapters, because they are too happy, when the nature of the show had a good mix of happiness and sadness. That exaggerated happiness weakened the atmosphere, except remembering Fantine's suffering and Jean Valjean's death, but both moments were so brief to outweight the loss of atmosphere. Otherwise, the atmosphere was good in the another episodes. The drama is well done. The moral of the story (people can change) felt a bit anvilicious, because in the final chapters, that's said uncountable times.
The art is OK. T…
Read at the sourceSoraAoiHana
This is my first ever review! I actually never really thought I'd ever write one! Please be nice!
I rarely see any anime adaptations of famous novels and I often wondered how it would be like. My first guess was that it may steer away from the novel's original story but after reading how it was faithful to the original novel, I decided to try it. (Plus, seeing little Cosette was really what attracted me, she's so adorable!)
Do note, I have not read the original novels so I cannot help but be biased about it. but despite that, I will try to keep it as unbiased as possible. I also tried my best not to spoil anything!
Story;
I did a bit of research and found out that the anime adapted from the second half of the first volume to the last one with hints of flashbacks for the first half of t…
Read at the sourcePaleMint
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.
Most of my qualms with the series stem from the fact that it is aimed at children. There are many works of fiction that target a young audience but can be enjoyed by adults without seeming too childish. This anime succeeded partially i…
Read at the sourcePetiteAni
I decided to watch this anime after a friend of mine recommended it to me. Before watching it, I searched it up and found that it was adapted from Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables." Reading the description, I really liked it and so I watched it.
Even now I love this anime so much. I have no idea how many times I cried and how many tissues I have used XDD Because of this anime, I'm deciding to also read the original novel.
Read at the sourceDonwun
In all fairness I admit I have not actually read the original LM novel….however, before watching this anime take on LM I had already seen the 1998 movie adaptation which starred Liam Neeson (Taken) & Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet) and it gives a general idea of the story.
AFTER watching this anime series I watched the 25th anniversary London play which has been confirmed to be 90% faithful to the original novel…so writing this review now I feel I have a good grasp on the material
I did really love that 1998 movie version to death from seeing it YEARS ago and it was actually the movie that got me into period-pieces.
Anyway, naturally being the anime lovin guy that I am I was more than excited to hear there was a 50+ episode anime adaption of Les Miserables.
However, after completion I’…
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This is a perfect series. I have no doubts to put it on the top of the best I've seen. Everything fits well together, I've never seen/read the original Les Miserables but the Anime is very good maybe better than the original?
I was surprised the simplicity of the character drawing, yet it never fails to accomplish their characterization.
The plot is there, the art is there, the feelings are there, the ending is perfect, everything is perfect! A truly masterpiece!
The best long series of all time?
Read at the sourcebubonicwoodchuck
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…
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