Short Synopsis: It’s Cosette’s birthday. The majority of the episode focuses on a present Fantine made for her.
Good: I love this show, and this episode only strengthened this opinion; omg @ Eponine.
Bad: Episode six, and still no real bad points, whoa. I am SO hoping that 52 episodes is going to be the right format for this story.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8.5/10
You could call this episode a Fantine-episode, as she played a role in most parts. During the first half, we see her get her secret exposed, which makes her lose her job. On top of that, she finds out that Cosette has become sick. At least, that’s one of Thenardier’s plans to suck even more money out of her. Thankfully, she manages to find another job at the shop of an old lady. This one actually doesn’t mind that she has a daughter. Later, we see her work on a birthday present for Cosette: an odour of some blue flowers Cosette used to really like (I forgot their names, sorry). She finishes and sends it to Cosette.
The second half of the episode focuses at this present, as you didn’t expect Thenardier to just give it to Cosette, did you? Instead, she finds it a nice present for Eponine. She should NOT have done that, even though the results of this turned out amazing. Eponine just couldn’t resist showing this present to Toron, who peeks inside and finds a note of “happy birthday, Cosette”, which obviously reveals that this isn’t Eponine’s, and it does suggest that she stole it from Cosette, while she didn’t know anything when she received it. With this, her hate for Cosette is only going to turn worse. That really was so sad.
Jean, meanwhile, gets a bit of development, and we see a bit more of his history. It seems that when he arrived in the town, he immediately gave himself a good reputation by saving two children from a burning house. I’m assuming that after this, he continued to do these kinds of things, until people started to find him suitable for the position of Major. Aran, meanwhile, has been noticing that he’s been feeling unwell at times, and tries to do something about this. I wonder how this’ll turn out.
It’s interesting. The spring-season has only just begun, and I’ve already fallen in love with two of its anime. That’s entirely different from the Fall-season, which featured a bunch of good series with a few flaws. Master of Epic and especially Les Miserables have caught my interest immediately. Especially Les Miserables has been consistently good so far, and it has chosen the perfect bland of drama and build-up.]]>
Les Miserables – Shoujo Cosette – 06
Just a quick note: when losing her job her chief told her that it is Valjean’s wish, while he didn’t know anything about it.This will become very important soon 🙂
Also in the book, Fantine didn’t find a new job but became a prostitute,and it became even worse later…but I think it’s the kind of limit that a child show won’t ever cross sadly.
This is in fact the only real thing that annoys me in this show, it’s just too light when you have already read the very dark and sad book, I mean it’s called Les Miserables because it’s the story of people that can never really escaped their misery, their origins.
I’m not exactly sure who Toron is (probably an anime-specific character), but I know that Gavroche and Cosette never met face-to-face. Does it mention who Gavroche is (if not, I don’t want to spoil it)?
Cosette really does get sick, but Fantine gets even more sick. It’s freezing cold in the apartment she rents from this old woman who constantly demands rent. And as cos mentioned, Fantine gets her money through prostitution.
I think the reason that people turn away from it is because it’s lightening such a deep classic. Les Mis really was about miserable people. My reasoning for not watching it is solely because I hate anime where the main focus is on a child, or several children.
I hate children. XD
Toron is my interpretation of the name of the boy Eponine is in love with. I’m not yet sure how his real name is spelled, since my Katakana isn’t perfect.
Also, Gavroche and Cosette definitely meet face-to-face in the anime. He seems to be the son of Thenardier, and he’s been the best friend of Cosette so far.
It’s interesting to see that you don’t like stories about children. I’m about the opposite, I love them. ^^ Especially when they’re as dark as this story. But yeah, I indeed wish that the creators wouldn’t try to lighten up the story a bit.
In the 1st episode, Gavroche is a baby. He is Thenardier’s son, but Mrs. Thenardier hates him and only loves her daughters. She leaves Cosette too take care of him. Thats how the two get to know each other.