bringing your attention to Takahiro Arai's sketch of victor hugo:
exquisite.
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I drew Javert by Takahiro Arai.
He is really beautiful.
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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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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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Les Misérables | Fantine & Cosette
(Manga by Arai Takahiro, 2016)
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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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Did you know that in the Arai manga, when Joly gets shot, Bossuet screams his name and runs to him, but Joly weakly says, "Do not come Bossuet" because he didn't want Bossuet to leave his cover. But it doesn't stop him and Bossuet gets shot and dies anyways. Then Joly, bleeding out but still alive, seems to cry while looking at his friend's dead body? Did you know that? Well you do now.
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Got an acrylic stand with Arai's enjoltaire and you don't understand how much I'm obsessed with them
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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.
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WAIT WAIT THE NEXT LM MANGA OMNIBUS IS OUT THIS WEEK?!?
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I continued feeling under the weather but!!! At least!!! First 3 volumes of the 8 volumes series of Les mis by Arai, in Italian. The one with gorgeous blonde emo bangs Javert!
Now I only need to find the strength to read them (or read at all orz)! Little by little, I'll get there uwu.
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