Short Synopsis: An Eponine-episode. Someone from Paris visits the inn. His stories greatly appeal to her. Fantine meanwhile gets evicted. No Jean this time.
Good: Eponine = awesome.
Bad: Too bad Azelma hasn’t been in the spotlights yet.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
I’m liking Eponine more and more with each episode, and this episode featured a lot of her. Toron didn’t play a role in this episode, but instead a traveller from Paris comes to visit the Inn. In there, he tells about how things are in that city. Eponine then seems to have a lot of interest in Paris, and she enthusiastically keeps asking him questions. She’s really energetic. At least, until Cosette comes in and it seems that she spent part of her childhood in Paris. Naturally, she gets incredibly jealous because of this.
I also love how Thenardier is more than just “the evil stepmother”, whose only purpose in life is to be bullying Cosette. This episode clearly showed that she does have her own problems. It seems that her husband keeps unnecessarily spending the money they earned, and at the same time, Cosette also keeps annoying her, driving potential customers away. All this seemed to have caused her quite a headache. Because of this, when Eponine comes whining to her about how Cosette actually gets treated nicely, she doesn’t behave like Eponine expected her to, eventually, she just ignores her. Because of this, Eponine reaches the limit, and she actually tries to go to Paris herself. Obviously, she has no idea what travelling is like, and when it starts to become dark, she indeed really starts to regret her decision. It’ll be interesting to see how she’ll act in the future episodes. Cosette was the one who saved her in the end, and she looked really grateful to her for once. But will this gratefulness only increase her grudge against her?
I’m also wondering what will happen to Fantine, now that she’s been evicted yet again. Like Cos said before, it’s a children’s show, so most of the darker themes are cut out. It would be great to see Fantine indeed end up as prostitute, but will the creators really go this far with a children’s movie?]]>
Les Miserables – Shoujo Cosette – 07
Have you seen most of the Masterpiece Thetre shows? They can get pretty heavy. My personal favorite is Marco- 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. At some times its extremely heartbreaking with dark elements like adults letting kids die, child abuse, and stuff like that. I think Les Miserables may do the Candy Candy thing and make the series kiddy at first and very heavy afterwards. I don’t know if they’ll turn Fantine into a full blown prostitue but they may make her a homeless beggar, but I won’t be too surprised if they actually turn her into a prostitute.
By the way I’m a new fan of your blog, keep up the great work!
Have you seen most of the Masterpiece Thetre shows? They can get pretty heavy. My personal favorite is Marco- 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. At some times its extremely heartbreaking with dark elements like adults letting kids die, child abuse, and stuff like that. I think Les Miserables may do the Candy Candy thing and make the series kiddy at first and very heavy afterwards. I don’t know if they’ll turn Fantine into a full blown prostitue but they may make her a homeless beggar, but I won’t be too surprised if they actually turn her into a prostitute.
By the way I’m a new fan of your blog, keep up the great work!
I do admit that I haven’t seen much of the World Masterpiece Theatre, but this anime definitely makes me curious about them. I’m also really hoping that this anime will turn as dark as you think it will.
Glad to see you like my blog, by the way. Thanks. 🙂