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pureanonofficial · 2 months ago
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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.
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pilferingapples · 2 months ago
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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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sirgawainofgalifrey · 1 year ago
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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.
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secretmellowblog · 6 months ago
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Finished rereading the Arai manga adaptation of Les Mis
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bobcatmoran · 5 months ago
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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.
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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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bobcatmoran · 1 year ago
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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:
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exquisite.
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aenrev · 1 month ago
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Enjolras in Arai's manga design
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its-kapi-wara · 6 months ago
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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
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Les Misérables (2012) - Aaron Tveit & Amanda Seyfried
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Les Misérables (2013-2016) - Arai Takahiro
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Les Misérables (2014) - Crystal S. Chan
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Les Misérables (2018-2019) - Joseph Quinn & Ellie Bamber
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yirafter · 1 year ago
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I drew Javert by Takahiro Arai.
He is really beautiful.
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pureanonofficial · 24 days ago
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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?
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pilferingapples · 2 years ago
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WAIT WAIT THE NEXT LM MANGA OMNIBUS IS OUT THIS WEEK?!?
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hadleysmis · 3 months ago
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Jean Valjean lifts Marius part III
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新井隆広
Bonus sewage content:
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tlacuart · 9 months ago
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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!👉👈
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bobcatmoran · 2 years ago
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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:
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Joly:
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Bossuet, with this being one of the very few adaptations where he's actually bald/balding:
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Bahorel:
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Courfeyrac:
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Feuilly:
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Jean Prouvaire:
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Combeferre:
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And Enjolras:
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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
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exactly, mr arai.
exactly.
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oldbooksandnewmusic · 1 year ago
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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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