#les mis cosette

[robin-stars]

Eposette (That's why I love the eposette)

[checcotheperson]

Obsessed with Alouette no Uta's depiction of Inspector Javert.

Credits to @hadleysmis, i wouldn't have been able to have ref images (oralinktolegallypurchasethemangaforthatmatter) for this mf if it weren't for them!! Still hoping i'll be able to get this manga, if y'all don't know it's a manga drawn in the "horror style" by Inuki Kanako, adaptating Les Mis through Cosette's POV.

Probably because my first proper exposure and introduction to Les Mis was Shoujo Cosette, Cosette's story is one of my favorite parts and the one i'm always the most interested to; While rare, everytime there is a particularly Cosette-centric adaptations (mostly from Japan lol) i try my earnest to get my hands on it and check it out.

With that being said, Alouette no Uta has one key difference with Shoujo Cosette, in that it's definetly not for kids. Shoujo Cosette pulled no punches in showing Cosette's horrible life while under the Thénardiers' "care", but Alouette no Uta, from what i've been able to see (which, again, big thanks for Hadleymis, i likely wouldn't even be aware of this manga's existence), goes even further and is much darker and more violent/psychologically brutal. Shoujo Cosette is a gut-punching adaptation, but it certainly didn't go to the levels Alouette no Uta does, plus there's the fact the latter has a... unique art style, to say the least. I like it!!! But it can certainly can get a while to be used to it (Gavroche'sdesignisagoodexample).

With that being said, these are exactly the reasons for why i want to check it out for myself!! It's not guaranteed it'll become one of my most liked adaptations afterwards 100%, but i think it is worth a try- Plus look at this man!!!

Gonna say, my experience with finding out about his design was very funny to me. Previously, the only image i had of Javert from this manga was the aftermath of his suicide (which, for such a dark manga, it's a really peculiar way to portray something like that..) so one of the reasons i wanted to get it for myself was too see how Javert's drawn!

Welp, in the end i didn't have to wait until i got the manga (if it happens), but... yeah when i first saw him, i was.. dissapointed, to say the least. It's not a bad design! I don't hate it!! I was just... expecting more. And idk, i'm not a fan of Javert looking so young, or being clean-shaven. But it's precisely because of how off he appears to me that i like this design!! I unironically like Javert's depiction from the 1988 animated special for the same reasons :p.

With that being said, i look forward to when i might finally get the possibility of reading this manga. Yap's over :))!

[bendita9-6]

Cosette

Og: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxXzm9yg0PRSvVFXELfbejp_JJegs4sfvD

Cosette from Les Mis.

[shangdragonsthief]

Here's the next BSD x Les Mis video. This is The Robbery and Javert's intervention. Lots of Hunting Dogs, and Dazai makes his appearance as Cosette while Fukuzawa is Valjean.

[mimmixerenard]

Mère et fille

A very self-indulgent embrace... after re-reading some passages from the book as well as listening to "J'avais rêvé" (I Dreamed a Dream) a few times (and letting out a few tears), I needed to sketch down this glimpse of another, fairer, world.

Fantine's design will be worked on separately soon ;)

[pendantheartcounterpart]

always shy putting my art.... anywhere, but i've been getting into les mis and ive come up with a design for cosette I really like....

[beforewecutthefatonesdowntosize]

Disney X Les Misérables

1. Jean Valjean - I imagine two characters "playing" him. In his younger years (before he was arrested, and sent to the galleys) I imagine him as Aladdin. And when he is older, I imagine him as Cassim.

I don't know how many people will remember this character (or this movie) but he is Aladdin's father and first appears in Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

2. Fantine - I know that many people relate the character of Cinderella to Cosette (which is fair), but her appearance in the Disney films really reminds me of the Fantine, and how she described in the books:

"She was called Fantine because she had never been known by any other name [...] She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but the gold was on her head and the pearls in her mouth."

3. Euphrasie "Cosette" Fauchelevent - Okay, for Cosette I imagined these three characters for each "stage" of her life. The first two images are of Penny from The Rescuers (1977), and would represent her around the time she was rescued by Jean Valjean. The third is Princess Eilonwy from Black Cauldron (1985), who would represent Cosette at 12-14 years old, when she left the Petit-Picpus convent. And lastly, Princess Aurora would be her at 16-17 years old.

Also, I just noticed that while in the novel her hair is described to get darker over the years, here it seems like it has gotten lighter.

4. M. Thénardier - Dr. Facilier as Monsieur Thénardier, that's it! I could list a few reasons why I think these two fit together perfectly, but I think the decisive one for me is Facilier's expression in the masked ball scene (that would be the second image). It reminds me of the part of the novel where M. Thénardier sees Marius and Cosette's wedding procession during the Mardi Gras.

5. Bishop Myriel - The Archdeacon from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Yeah, I don't think there's much to explain about this one. Besides the two (in a way) being part of a work by Victor Hugo, their personalities and appearances fit together very well.

I also thought of Friar Tuck from Robin Hood, and more specifically, the anthropomorphic version of him that appears in the 1973 film.

6. Fauchelevent - For Fauchelevent I imagine Amos Slade from the movie The Fox and the Hound (1981). I remember that I didn't like this character when I was a kid, not necessarily because he was a hunter, but because of his "obsession" with capturing Tod. But looking back today, I believe it was because we were seeing the movie from the poor animals' point of view (I mean, his dog was hurt too).

But like Fauchelevent, I believe he is not necessarily a "bad guy" – perhaps a lonely, grumpy old man.

7. Monsieur Gillenormand and Mademoiselle Gillenormand - For Monsieur Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, I imagine his appearance to be similar to that of Georges Hautecourt from Aristocats (1970). And although the lawyer seems to be much more lively, pleasant and fun than M. Gillenormand, I really imagined his appearance to be something like that.

And for Mlle. Gillenormand, I picture Aunt Sarah from Lady and the Tramp (1955). Although I don't think Marius's aunt is as old as Aunt Sarah appears to be, so I picture her hair starting to turn gray, not completely white.

8. Toussaint - Last but not least: Nanny from 101 Dalmatians (1961) as Toussaint, the maid of Jean Valjean and Cosette. Let me tell you, to this day I find Nanny to be the most adorable female Disney character, the way she loves and cares for the Dalmatian puppies is just so cute, even in the live-action version.

[fruity-pontmercy]

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!

*slams hands on imaginary internet desk*

SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS BY ABBA

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make it FANTINE AND COSETTE