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Jucika in the Countryside - ANIMATION

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I know most of you guys can't read Russian so I want to say that this is an 18+ warning at the start of a video due to scenes of alcohol consumption because "excessive alcohol consumption harms your health."

This is a very reasonable statement except IT'S IN FRONT OF ANIMATED ADAPTATION OF HOW DARE YOU aka the story about two modern people who transmigrate into a period China setting and like (a) that is the least of their issues (b) sure if I ever transmigrate into a period novel, I will be sure to be cognizant of my liver and drink sparingly.

Scarlet

Obsessed with Alouette no Uta's depiction of Inspector Javert.

Credits to @hadleysmis, i wouldn't have been able to have ref images (oralinktolegallypurchasethemangaforthatmatter) for this mf if it weren't for them!! Still hoping i'll be able to get this manga, if y'all don't know it's a manga drawn in the "horror style" by Inuki Kanako, adaptating Les Mis through Cosette's POV.

Probably because my first proper exposure and introduction to Les Mis was Shoujo Cosette, Cosette's story is one of my favorite parts and the one i'm always the most interested to; While rare, everytime there is a particularly Cosette-centric adaptations (mostly from Japan lol) i try my earnest to get my hands on it and check it out.

With that being said, Alouette no Uta has one key difference with Shoujo Cosette, in that it's definetly not for kids. Shoujo Cosette pulled no punches in showing Cosette's horrible life while under the Thénardiers' "care", but Alouette no Uta, from what i've been able to see (which, again, big thanks for Hadleymis, i likely wouldn't even be aware of this manga's existence), goes even further and is much darker and more violent/psychologically brutal. Shoujo Cosette is a gut-punching adaptation, but it certainly didn't go to the levels Alouette no Uta does, plus there's the fact the latter has a... unique art style, to say the least. I like it!!! But it can certainly can get a while to be used to it (Gavroche'sdesignisagoodexample).

With that being said, these are exactly the reasons for why i want to check it out for myself!! It's not guaranteed it'll become one of my most liked adaptations afterwards 100%, but i think it is worth a try- Plus look at this man!!!

Gonna say, my experience with finding out about his design was very funny to me. Previously, the only image i had of Javert from this manga was the aftermath of his suicide (which, for such a dark manga, it's a really peculiar way to portray something like that..) so one of the reasons i wanted to get it for myself was too see how Javert's drawn!

Welp, in the end i didn't have to wait until i got the manga (if it happens), but... yeah when i first saw him, i was.. dissapointed, to say the least. It's not a bad design! I don't hate it!! I was just... expecting more. And idk, i'm not a fan of Javert looking so young, or being clean-shaven. But it's precisely because of how off he appears to me that i like this design!! I unironically like Javert's depiction from the 1988 animated special for the same reasons :p.

HOLY FUCK GANG, IT’S HAPPENING

Majorie Liu and Sana Takeda will be executive producers (thank God), and Steven Maeda and Tiffany Greshler who worked on the recent live-action One Piece flick are on board as co-show runners.

I have…thoughts.

I enjoy reading Disney Duck comics (Particularly those produced by Carl Barks and Don Rosa) and while I'm in no hurry to see it happen, I sometimes wonder how an animated adaptation of Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" would go.

Rather than trying to squeeze everything into one feature-length 'toon, perhaps a mini-series would do, like Over the Garden Wall. Each issue would be animated, (With certain elements or chapters removed) allowing them to seem like self-contained stories that would still be part of an overarching narrative.

What are these 'certain elements' I would prefer to see dismissed? Well, I think I would take away the ghosts of Castle McDuck subplot, or that whole 'Scrooge is destined to the world's richest duck'. I always found those bits a little unnecessary, to be honest.

In my adaptation (If I had the drive and resources to produce such a series), each episode would start with Scrooge in the present day (Or what maybe the 1940s, where the Barks/Rosa comics take place), and something would cause him to start talking about his past. Since these episodes are from Scrooge's perspective, that would mean scenes that he wasn't there for would be excluded, since he can't remember something he never experienced.