Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette

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Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette
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レ・ミゼラブル 少女コゼット (Re Mizeraburu Shōjo Kozetto)
Genre	Drama, Historical
TV anime
Director	Hiroaki Sakurai
Studio	Nippon Animation
Network	BS Fuji, Animax
Original run	7 January 2007 – December 2007
Episodes	52

Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette (レ・ミゼラブル 少女コゼット, Re Mizeraburu Shōjo Kozetto^?) is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation, as the latest installment to the famed World Masterpiece Theater series. It is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, Les Misérables.

It premiered across Japan from 7 January 2007 on Fuji TV's BS Fuji broadcast satellite network, and is set to contain 52 episodes. It also aired in Japan on Animax from April 2007.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Staff 4 Theme songs 5 External links

[edit] Plot

Set in 19th century-era France, the series begins with Cosette, a young girl, traveling with her mother, Fantine, who is trying to find a job and a place to live, but have always been shunned away due to few employers hiring single mothers. When her mother is promised with the prosperity of working in the big city, Cosette is separated from her in the hopes a caretaker will watch over her while her mother earns some money. Unfortunately this was a trick and the caretaker is a corrupt man who makes Cosette his indentured servant, or more precisely: his slave. Then the kind mayor of the town that Cosette makes her new home in sees how winds of change are so detrimental for children and families, and decides to do something about it.

[edit] Characters

• Cosette: voiced by Tamaki Matsumoto (3 years old), Kaori Nazuka
• Jean Valjean: voiced by Masashi Sugawara
• Fantine: voiced by Emiko Hagiwara
• Javert: voiced by Takashi Matsuyama
• Gavroche: voiced by Yumiko Kobayashi
• Thénardier: voiced by Masashi Yabe
• Okami: voiced by Mami Horikoshi
• Éponine: voiced by Yūki Ootomo (4 years old), Yūko Sasamoto
• Azelma: voiced by Chihiro Yarita (2 years old), Kurumi Mamiya
• Alain: voiced by Anri Katsu
• Marius: voiced by Anri Katsu

[edit] Staff

• Original story: Victor Hugo "Les Misérables"
• Producer: Kōichi Motohashi
• Planning: Kazuya Maeda (Fuji TV), Kōhei Sano, Kazuka Ishikawa
• Production manager: Ken'ichirō Hayafune
• Series composition and screenplay: Tomoko Kanparu
• Character designs: Hajime Watanabe, Takahiro Yoshimatsu
• Chief animation director: Tadashi Shida
• Background artist: Kazue Itō
• Art director: Mitsuki Nakamura
• Color design: Tomoko Komatsubara
• Photography director: Seichi Morishita
• Sound director: Hiroyuki Hayase
• Music: Hayato Matsuo
• Music producers: Hitoshi Yoshimura (Index Music), Daisuke Honji (Index Music)
• Producers: Yukihiro Itō (Fuji TV), Kōji Yamamoto (Fuji TV), Michio Katō, Ken'ichi Satō
• Director: Hiroaki Sakurai
• Production: Fuji TV, Nippon Animation

[edit] Theme songs

• Opening theme: Kaze no Mukō (風の向こう, Kaze no Mukō^?)

• Performance: Yuki Saitō (Index Music)

• Ending theme: ma maman (Watashi no Okā-san) (ma maman　(私のお母さん), ma maman (Watashi no Okā-san)^?)

• Performance: Yuki Saitō (Index Music)

[edit] External links

• Nippon Animation's official website (Japanese)
• BS Fuji's official World Masterpiece Theater website (Japanese)
  • BS Fuji's official Shōjo Cosette page (Japanese)
• Animax's official website (Japanese)

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