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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Preface (Les Miserables - Takahiro Arai)
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.
#Les Miserables#Les Mis Letters#Les Mis Letters in Adaptation#Les Mis Arai#Les Miserables Arai#Takahiro Arai#lesmisedit#lesmiserablesedit#lesmisaraiedit#lesmiserablesaraiedit#pureanonedits#And here is the actually good adaptation of the Preface lmao.
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Arai Readalong Maybe?
I've been thinking about organizing a group read of the Arai manga (out in English from Seven Seas!) for 2025.
This couldn't be done with the substack model because well, no digital files of it (or if there are, I don't have them!) , and definitely wouldn't follow the LM letters one-a-day model because there's far fewer chapters-- only 35! I'm thinking of doing 1 chapters a week once we get going, but open to other arrangements, if someone's got a good idea!
This will NOT be starting in January, because I want to give anyone interested a chance to get the manga and give myself a little more time to figure out the reading schedule, and December is just too busy for that :P
So this is just an Interest Check kind of post-- if you think you might be interested in doing a Manga readalong, drop a reply or say in a reblog that you'd like to join! And we can get started planning this!:D
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Okay don't come at me for this but I 100% judge any and all Les Mis adaptations almost completely by their design and characterization of Javert.
Like if he's not on point then I'm sorry, I'm done, I can't.
#i love the other characters but still#and also by how much romantic tension there is between him and Jean Valjean#No hes not my favorite character why do you ask?#les mis#les miserables#les amis de l'abc#Javert#jean valjean#valvert#barricade boys#Les Mis manga#les mis arai#takahiro arai#the brick#phillip quast#russel crowe
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Finished rereading the Arai manga adaptation of Les Mis

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Les Mis 4.9.3 M. Mabeuf
The barricades approacheth, and I'm gonna try to resume my Arai manga posting along with it.
Arai depicts Mabeuf's experimental indigo crops failing, despite Eponine's help, and him letting Mother Plutarch go, because he can no longer pay her.
His house and shelves are bare of anything else to sell. So when the crowd comes by his cottage on the way to the rebellion, heretofore unknown to him, he joins in. What else can he do?
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Actually, it's even better. This is is Takahiro Arai's depiction of himself In Clever Disguise as Victor Hugo.
bringing your attention to Takahiro Arai's sketch of victor hugo:

exquisite.
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Enjolras in Arai's manga design
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Current Obsession: Seeing in which adaptations Cosette (a.k.a Euphrasie) and Enjolras could actually fit into the "Siblings AU"
Shoujo Cosette (2007) - Nippon Animation


Les Misérables (2012) - Aaron Tveit & Amanda Seyfried


Les Misérables (2013-2016) - Arai Takahiro


Les Misérables (2014) - Crystal S. Chan


Les Misérables (2018-2019) - Joseph Quinn & Ellie Bamber


#Them in the 2012's movie still being my favorite by the way#les miserables cosette#cosette fauchelevent#les miserables enjolras#enjolras#shoujo cosette#les miserables the musical#arai takahiro#les miserables#les mis#cosette and enjolras sibilings au
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I drew Javert by Takahiro Arai.
He is really beautiful.
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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Billows and Shadows, LM 1.2.8 (Les Miserables - Takahiro Arai)
Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths of engulfment. Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. The soul, going downstream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall resuscitate it?
#Les Mis#Les Miserables#Les Mis Letters in Adaptation#Les Mis Letters#Valjean#Jean Valjean#Takahiro Arai#Les Mis Arai#Les Miserables Arai#lesmisedit#lesmiserablesedit#lesmisaraiedit#lesmiserablesaraiedit#pureanonedits#LM 1.2.8
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WAIT WAIT THE NEXT LM MANGA OMNIBUS IS OUT THIS WEEK?!?
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Jean Valjean lifts Marius part III

新井隆広
Bonus sewage content:


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Hello, I am from México and I recently bought the Les Mis manga.
Les Mis is not popular at all in the hispanic or Latinoamerican fandom, so, Idk, I was hoping to find some friends here? I have a lot of hype rn, and I need to talk to someone😭
I love the book, musical, anime, manga, I've seen almost all the movie adaptations, there is even a mexican one! But it's not of my favs.
It would be nice to do art trades or collabs, I have a lot of silly and tragic aus, or if yoy write I love to make fanart about fanfics!👉👈
#les mis fandom#enjolras#enjoltaire#les amis#les mis fanart#grantaire#combeferre#courfeyrac#les mis#takahiro arai#lesmismanga
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I am ridiculously far behind on my Les Mis Letters/Arai Manga posts, but I couldn't let today's chapter of 3.4.1, "A Group That Almost Became Historic," go by without showing Arai's Les Mis designs from when they first show up (there's no direct equivalent to this chapter in Arai, but the characterization notes from it get woven in throughout the manga from here on out).
Les Amis are quite popular in Japan, possibly because the trope of a group of people from dissimilar backgrounds coming together for a common cause is much more common there than in US-based media, which tends to favor a lone hero (see: Super Sentai, and also, like, every shounen manga ever).
Anyway, here they are (in reverse chapter order):
Grantaire, looking even worse than he does for most of the manga, since he's clearly already VERY drunk:

Joly:

Bossuet, with this being one of the very few adaptations where he's actually bald/balding:

Bahorel:

Courfeyrac:

Feuilly:

Jean Prouvaire:

Combeferre:

And Enjolras:

Arai does explain the pun, with ABC and Abaisse being spelled out phonetically in katakana next to the Roman alphabet characters in Enjolras' dialogue (a-be-se and a-be-sse, respectively). Les Amis are generally known as "ABCの友," (ABC-no-tomo) or "friends of ABC" in Japanese.
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can't stop thinking abt takahiro arai's evaluation of jean and javert's dynamic, coupled with the massive bold "LOVE IT!!!" at the bottom

exactly, mr arai.
exactly.
#he gets it better than anyone ever has or ever will#jean valjean#police inspector javert#javert#valvert#jean x javert#jean valjean x javert#les mis#les miserables#takahiro arai#les mis manga
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@saltedpin Be careful what you speak into the universe because I'm actually at the end of my tether.
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