#LM animation

[iilmunchkiin]

"Just a Man"

I wasn't planning on uploading this cuz it's just a wam up but... I got encouraged :3c

[ Kofi☕]

[adobongsiopao]

What a surprise! Another new "Anne of Green Gables" anime is currently in the works. The new adaptation will be titled "Anne Shirley" and it is said that it's story will be based on first three "Anne" novels - "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of the Island". The anime will be scheduled to be released on April 2025.

As for someone who had watched a lot of classic literature based anime for a long time, I think that news is some sort of slap in the face to Nippon Animation, an anime studio known for making a lot of anime based on novels particulary the "World Masterpiece Theater" series. Considering Nippon Animation is planning to have 50th anniversary of that studio next year, seeing a certain animation studio having interest of doing an anime adaptation of the novel is a sign that the former should never rely on their nostalgia and try to step up aside from selling merchandise. It also means there are people in animation studio in Japan who believe there's still a market to these kind of anime. Here's hoping that the new "Anne of Green Gables" anime will receive well.

Source: Official Japanese website of "Anne Shirley" anime.

[nancydrewmermaid]

Anne and Diana in the Anne of Green Gables Anime "Anne Shirley" (2025)

[ryssbelle]

Animated a panel from @linked-maze frulle provided the bg! I hope you guys like it! im still learning lol

[pianokantzart]

ルイージマンション２ HD

Some new animation from the Japanese Luigi's Mansion 2 TV spots

[ravenmoodle]

Wow!

a wip of that thing with LM i'm working on- if you wanna see a longer preview i have a long wip of the opening on Ratreon.

[zarvasace]

Hey Bunny uh. Whatcha got there

[manikas-whims]

watched 2 episodes of Anne Shirley

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

forever one of my favourite quotes 🤌

this anime is healing me after that Netflix adaptation cancellation..😭

[daughtress]

[maud-heroine]

Yoshifumi Kondō initial design for Anne in Akage no An (赤毛のアン) you can tell he wanted to go for a more shôjo style, but the director wanted a more scrawny and less manga-like look for her.

[iilmunchkiin]

"Tumor"

[adobongsiopao]

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe from "Anne Shirley" anime Japanese opening.

[nancydrewmermaid]

Beautiful nature scenes/backgrounds from the Anne Shirley anime, episode 1

[lunior-art]

ever expanding scuffed-ass gay mural

[lawisnotmocked]

I was planning on just writing one post about all the notable animal imagery in volume 1 book 2 for les mis letters but it ended up being way too long so I’ve decided to split it up into two separate posts :p Canine imagery has it’s own post and this one is about feline imagery! (With a little bit of bird imagery at the end too 👀)

Book 2 features the first example of cat imagery in Les Mis! Cats have a lot of different Symbolic Associations in Les Mis, including representing Society and the ordinary people of Paris, but many of these associations don’t show up properly until book 3 so for now I’ll be focusing on their Other Symbolic Purpose - representing indecision, choices to make and potential (including the potential to become a different Symbolically Relevant Big Cat).

In 1.2.11 when Valjean sneaks into Myriel’s room, the way he opens the door is described as catlike and uncertain.

Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. He gave the door a push. He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering.

When Valjean enters the bishop’s room he still seems unsure about what he plans on doing. The decision he makes next will change the trajectory of his entire life and, in Hugo’s own (translated) words, ‘one would have said that he was hesitating between the two abysses,—the one in which one loses one’s self and that in which one saves one’s self’.

When Valjean does make the decision to steal the silverware and run off with it his feline imagery switches from cat to tiger.

[He] opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode the window-sill of the ground floor, put the silver into his knapsack, threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a tiger, and fled.

If cats symbolically represent a Regular Person making a Decision in Les Mis, the lion and tiger are like a big cat angel and devil on their shoulders. I’m fairly sure tigers being associated with Malicious, Dangerous And Evil Intentions was an established literary trope during this period? I don’t have any of my other examples on hand right now but I’m reading A Tale of Two Cities at the moment and Dickens uses tiger imagery for the marquis in a very similar way -

Rustling about the room, his softly-slippered feet making no noise on the floor, he moved like a refined tiger:—looked like some enchanted marquis of the impenitently wicked sort, in story, whose periodical change into tiger form was either just going off, or just coming on.

Hugo sympathises a lot with Valjean’s decisions in book 2 so I don’t think he’s trying to argue that Valjean is Evil And Malicious in this moment, but stealing the silverware would’ve absolutely had terrible consequences for him if Myriel hadn’t intervened and I think the tiger imagery is a part of it being portrayed as a bad and impulsive decision from that angle. I think this also represents a shift in Valjean’s mental state from a cautious and quiet domestic cat to a dangerous and impulsive wild animal, just like the wolf imagery Hugo uses for Valjean in 1.2.7. Anyway, cat and tiger imagery will definitely show up again in future chapters! Yippee!

Finally, we also get some owl imagery for Valjean during his moral crisis in 1.2.13 when he‘s thinking about the implications of what Myriel has done for him by gifting him the silver.

He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and blinded, as it were, by virtue.

I don’t have much to say about this one other than a very surface level appreciation for the mental image this description gives the reader, but I wanted to take note of it because I’m pretty sure Valjean gets more owl imagery later on in the book and I’d like to be able to come back and compare it to this one 👀

There’s also been a couple of other mentions of birds that I’ve been taking note of but I don’t think I have anything to say about them yet either. Watch this space I guess lol 🦉

[ravenmoodle]

[animation wip] What the heck is wrong with THIS freak