Oh my god… I knew what was going to happen. The writers kept dropping hints for it. And yet, this episode turned out absolutely incredible. Now this is what I call a death with a perfect build-up, something which many writers can learn a lot from. I again ended up crying at what happened, Les Miserables is a true masterpiece.
The first half of the episode was mostly building-up. Anjoras tries to shoot a police-officer as he’s preparing for the next fight, though Jean beats him by shooting his helmet off. The thing also is that the officer was dangerously close to his own age, and could have been one of his comrades if he didn’t choose to enlist to the military. He then gets replaced by an officer who’s much older, and the attack is launched. Jean again manages to save Les Amis by using his strength to close off the barricade, which currently has a hole in it, buying them some time to regroup.
Gavroche is still as motivated as others, and for the first time he seems to mention Cosette again, in an attempt to convince Marius to take him seriously. Javert meanwhile gets pissed because Jean is right in front of his nose and can’t do anything about it. Cosette meanwhile makes things even better when she goes out to find Jean and Marius on her own!
She first moves to the church, where basically every family member of the ones who are fighting is praying for their safety (I loved this detail, by the way. It just shows even more how the people who are fighting are just ordinary humans. Something that only very few other anime do as well). Jean obviously isn’t there, but Cosette does get information about the only two barricades left.
Back at the barricade, the police started their attack again, and Gavroche still can’t get himself a gun. Les Amis are on the frontlines, while everyone else provides them with fresh guns and bullets and Jean takes care of the injured. There is a problem, however: the bullets are running out. This gives Gavroche an idea to finally be helpful: in all the gun-smoke, nobody will be able to see him, so he goes to the bodies of the fallen policemen to collect the bullets they had left. It’s brave, but the guy just has way too much self-confidence.
Marius tries to call him back, but Gavroche is way too happy that he’s finally found himself something to do that can protect others. He again remembers Cosette, and starts singing the song Cosette taught him. The policemen then notice him, and start firing, though Gavroche manages to avoid the gunshots until he can throw the bag of bullets he collected to Marius. Then he lets his guard down, and gets shot in the heart! Shushu notices this, leaves the two brothers and tries to get Gavroche away from the battlefield. He succeeds, and then runs into Cosette, who finally sees Gavroche again in the final seconds of his life.
Seriously, that was absolutely amazing. I’m so hoping that the creators will continue with another World Masterpiece Series for next year, because the format works just so incredibly well.]]>
Les Miserables – Shoujo Cosette – 43
I want to see this!! T___T
oh my god, finally, the episode I’ve been waiting for: Gavroche’s death. Poor, poor Gavroche T___T For the most part, it sounds like they kept things the same, thank goodness, I was really worried they were gonna screw it up, but it sounds like they did it okay ^^; However, I have to wonder if, by your sentence about how Cosette sees him in his final seconds, the two truly remember each other. I had hoped the anime would forget about the friendship the two used to have…but I guess I got my hopes up XPP; It seems to be changing Cosette again, which is making me fear it’ll start changing other stuff. In the book Cosette never left the comforts of her house, but here she’s truly taking control of her life and trying to make sense of things. I wonder what they’re going to have her do as the fight continues o__O Surely she won’t want to stand and watch as her love and father are fighting…
His name’s spelled Enjolras….ooooh.
*neglected Shocose for, like, 3 months now, needs to return to watching it regularly*
Was it the “lullaby, lullaby, oyasumi” song Gavroche was singing, or a differnet one? (doesn’t remember hearing Cosette sing any other songs) Because, in the book and the original French version of the musical, Gavvy sings a song about Voltaire and Rousseau at the barricades, and in the English version of the musical he sings one about how great little people like himself are.
And Cosette actually does something! ^_^;;
No, it’s the Lullaby-song that he sings. 🙂
Yes , he sings the same song Cosette used to sing him when they were children. Remember when his mother didn’t want him crying at home.
It’s rather hard to believe that he had it in his mind all along.
This episode really made me cry.
Gavroche, Shushu and Cosette finally met.
They’ve been through so much as kids.
I wish they were able to continue an amazing
friendship.