Les Miserables - Shoujo Cosette

Les Miserables: Shoujo Cossette

First episode by a group called Delicious

There isn't yet description for this anime available, so I will quote here a description of the source itself:
"Les Misérables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Victims) (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year period in the early 19th century that includes the Napoleonic wars and subsequent decades. Principally focusing on the struggles of the protagonist—ex-convict Jean Valjean—struggling to redeem himself, the novel examines the impact of Valjean's actions as social commentary. It examines the nature of good, evil, and the law, in a sweeping story that expounds upon the history of France, architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, law, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love." -Wikipedia

Genres: Drama, historical.

Sites:
AniDB, ANN, Official.


Well, great many are of course familiar with this title, as the novel indeed is very, very famous, and equally masterful. For me, it was one of the first novels I ever read. And thus this anime caught my attention immediately the first time I saw it mentioned somewhere.

Based on the first episode this looks like a decent creation. The graphics are quite smooth, with a pretty high contrast between the backgrounds that look detailed and artistic and the rather simply drawn characters. But with jolly good 52 episodes, that's understandable. Now, I haven't heard of Delicious before, but they did decent if not necessarily impressive work. Still, I wouldn't mind if they got some competition, but I'm more than happy this series got a subber at all! What comes to the story, it seems pretty fast despite the double episode number, but on the other hand, it was a thick book...

OP and ED very quite nice as well. I'll most certainly keep watching this.

ill check this out

Hehe... i got that novel in french on my comp.. i never really readed it, mostly got it for my mom... but since there is like... over 10000(exaggerated number) pages.. she never readed it either :p .

I'm gonna download this to see if its any good. If it is, i may actually start reading the novel...

Looks like this show wasn't altogether forgotten by the subber groups:

Episode 1 - ureshii-Yoroshiku

Glad they didnt. Its a very touching story, though it makes me want to kill the antagonists.

is Shoujo Cossette that good? ill start downloading it now, screw you shint (about the post count, don't worry people)

If you liked princess sarah, or any show where the protagonist girl is badly treated (like a slave) by a bunch of idiots, then this show is really good.

A cinderella story I believe.

A couple of more episodes - and an interesting revelation:

Episode 2 - Delicious
Episode 3 - Delicious

The interesting revelation is, or was, the state of affairs in the group, Delicious: "no-one on our team actually speaks Japanese. We managed to make it through the first couple of episodes through a combination of dictionary use, bluffing and a passionate love of the original text, and we’re pretty proud of what we put out, but there are a few slip-ups in there we’d prefer to be without in future", like they put it themselves. That applied to episodes 1-2. From episode 3 and oward, though, they do have a translator. I guess their effort was impressive, after all... To sub two episodes without a translator and get the message through...

According to the same news from their site, they intend to release revised versions of the first two episodes at some point, with more accurate translations. But it's not top priority for them now; rather to catch up with the aired episodes seems to be. Well, that sounds good to me.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by shinta|hikari

Glad they didnt. Its a very touching story, though it makes me want to kill the antagonists.

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I don't know what you're talking about. Thenardier is one of the greatest classic characters you love to hate, and near the end you can only feel sympathy for Javert. If it makes you feel better, Thenardier probably got his head taken off in the ensuing revolution in 1832.

Just downloaded episode 2 and will download episode 3 soon. I really liked the first episode . For some reason when watching the first ep it reminded me of "The Snow Queen" which Live-Evil are subbing.

I haven't read the novel, but I really love the musical. So I'll definitely give this a try.

It has certainly been a while. But better late than never.

Episode 4 - Delicious

This time it looks like a normal schedule:

Episode 5 - Delicious

Who knows, maybe the subbing for this series got revived now.

Episode 6 - Delicious
Episode 6 avi - Formula
Episode 6 HD - Formula

4 months later and there is only 1 new episode?
Lame..