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Description A seventh collection of Les Misérables sketches. The darkish square in the middle was drawn on a Postit note and the lined one in the top right appeared in the margins of my schoolwork.

All the Jean Valjeans with mustaches instead of the full beard are based on the Les Misérables anime "Shojo Cosette" which is a shockingly accurate adaption, partially due to the fact it is 52 episodes long. Unfortunately, it was never released outside Japan and the fansub groups have only gotten to episode 28. ;-; I quite liked the character design for Valjean even if it was very different from how I envisioned him. Particularly amusing was the fact that you can only see his mouth when he shouts, so at all other times when he talks his mustache twitches so it looks like he has half a tribble glued to his face.
I did not particularly like the Javert character model because he looked like a cross between Severus Snape and an angry crow (I have a feeling I'm quoting someone or something here, but I'm not sure) and was shorter than Valjean. But the voice actor was good and they got his character down so I was able to overlook the silliness and fact that he looked older than Valjean, who was in fact almost 12 years older than Javert.

The top right Valjean was based on AsheRhyder's depiction in the marvelous crossover fancomic extravaganza Roomates.

The short haired Javert in the bottom right was based on Anthony Perkin's performance in the 1978 film.
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Comments: 9

Screaming4ever [2014-03-13 03:33:02 +0000 UTC]

I love your drawings!Also I found a batch torrent for the anime with all 52 episodes by [WSRN-Licca] apparently Just in case you haven't seen the remaining episodes yet.

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LesMisPhangirl [2012-05-04 05:15:30 +0000 UTC]

Valjean's magical mustache makes an appearance on dA. Yusss!!!

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MlleRevenant [2011-03-02 18:25:57 +0000 UTC]

Really well done. Valjean's mustache in the anime amused me at first, but he's also rather adorable in his old age. It's interesting that you feel Javert looked older than Valjean. He does have that wiry appearance that may make him look older to some people. I found it intriguing, though, that he didn't appear to age for the entire series - Valjean's hair whitens (in book fashion) and he gets more wrinkles, but Javert looks pretty much the same. Even his hair didn't turn gray!

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Nyranor In reply to MlleRevenant [2011-03-04 06:38:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

He was adorable, at every age in my opinion. He just had such an open, expressive face.

I think I based my impressions on their first appearances in Montreuil-sur-Mer because after I got over the initial reaction of "Pffffffffffft! Javert is too shooooort! >.< Why does he look like an angry vulture?!" I did my best to ignore his character model in favor of how he sounded and acted.

That's probably why I didn't really notice his lack of aging, which is very interesting now that you mention it. Maybe they realized they started him out with too many lines on his face so if they added to it he'd look like a satellite map of Baghdad. (Thank you, Zero Punctuation, for that hilarious turn of phrase. I couldn't resist stealing it.)

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MlleRevenant In reply to Nyranor [2011-03-05 06:17:24 +0000 UTC]

" . . . if they added to it he'd look like a satellite map of Baghdad." That made me laugh really hard. Thanks for sharing it.

Valjean really is adorable on so many levels. I guess I felt a little weird that while most fangirls (I imagine) have their gazes glued on fluffy!Enjolras and adorkable!Marius, I'm frantically pointing at Valjean and saying, "But look at his eyes! And his hair! And his broad shoulders! And his acts of saintly awesomeness! I don't care that he's old enough to be my grandfather, I have to love him!" But then, I'm obsessed with Javert even in anime form, too, so what do I know?

I had a similar reaction when I saw that they made Javert shorter than Valjean. I was immediately reminded of the '98 film. I understand that Valjean needs to look bulky and intimidating, but Javert needs to be equally intimidating if not more so! And it's hard to look intimidating to someone when you have to look *up* at them.

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Nyranor In reply to MlleRevenant [2011-03-06 03:54:08 +0000 UTC]

Oops, I hit the wrong button. I was trying to Preview... (I don't know how to use this site, yay!)

I agree! I didn't love any of les Amis in the anime particularly because they all looked the same! Honestly, they each had different hair or eye color, and that's it. Javert and Valjean had CHARACTER! (...even if I disapproved of Javert's character model, but oh well.)

That was my main quibble with the '98 film (...besides them COMPLETELY BUTCHERING THE ENDING! ~ahem~ anyway...) No offense, Geoffrey Rush, but go back to being a scruffy psuedo-evil pirate. You were awesome as Barbossa, stop ruining Javert. Liam Neeson, you're also awesome, but 6'4" is a bit much for the "medium-height" man Valjean is meant to be. The only way to make that work would be have Philip Quast in higher boots as Javert... Oh wait, that would be fabulous.

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Nyranor In reply to MlleRevenant [2011-03-06 03:43:36 +0000 UTC]

It's from this [link] Zero Punctuation episode at about 1:24. (I quote ZP all the time, even in RL conversations, which makes me sound either really clever or really pathetic, depending on if the person listening to me knows what I'm saying.)

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Tavata [2011-01-16 21:18:52 +0000 UTC]

I need to watch that anime!

Again and again, great Javert's drawings!

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Nyranor In reply to Tavata [2011-03-04 06:33:26 +0000 UTC]

It's great, I loved the episodes I watched. I'm so disappointed that the fan-subbers didn't finish. I wish I spoke Japanese...

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