I love how in every scene where Albert talks to Monte Cristo there's always a cut to Franz just looking like:
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Whenever I see the counts coat this is all I see
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people on tumblr really is sleeping on those great anime
wolf rain
Blue gender
Monster
Now and Then, Here and There
Big O
s-CRY-ed
Witch Hunter Robin
Paranoia Agent
Samurai 7
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Trinity Blood
Blood+
Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit
Ristorante Paradiso
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what if grown up Albert takes after his parents both in height and handsomeness. as a treat.
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a lot of gankutsuou interviews emerged out of nowhere on youtube (i'm assuming it's because of its 19th anniversary?) and i'm so obsessed with the way mahiro maeda promotes his own anime. that's exactly how i try to convince my friends to watch my favorite works:
"i made it gay because i wanted to" - the powerful ambition to make his dream fanfiction of a 19th century novel a reality... goals!
highlight is when he admits that gankutsuou is basically a nighttime soap opera:
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Early 2000s/late 1990s anime that is now on the verge of ‘forgotten’ status
I’m talking about those nostalgic analogue animations, or when the anime industries were facing a strange identity crisis of digital or analogue. I don’t know about you, but looking back, that period of anime certainly was the most mature I’ve ever seen, even compared to most shows ever released in the past decade or so.
Once more, this one’s a personal list of shows I remember just as some have never even heard of them
Romeo x Juliet
Earth Girl Arjuna
Last Exile
Noir
12 Kingdoms
Ergo Proxy
Escaflowne & Vision of Escaflowne
Blood+
Hellsing
Argento Soma
Elemental Gellade
Black Cat
Sorcerer stabber Orphen
kobato
Eden of the East
Fullmetal panic
Gankutsuou: Count de monte Cristo
xxxholic
Nodame Cantible
Mushishi
Baccano
The Irresponsible Captain Taylor
RahXephon
.hack//sign
Kare Kano
Martian Successor Nadesico
Claymore
You are under arrest
Ghost hunt
And that’s all that I can remember.
enjoy.
ps. a few of these are a bit on the mature side, so research with caution
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Achieving Whiteness Through Social Mobility in Gankutsuou
SPOILERS: Detailed discussion of the entire Gankutsuou series.
There have been many adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Some have tried to simplify the story to make it easier to fit into a constrained time limit, while others were so faithful to the plot that the spirit is entirely lost. Gankutsuou, by contrast, is arguably the best adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo while also being its own original story.
It’s evident that the creative team behind this series had a lot of love for the source material that they were able to capture the nuances of what made the book a compelling drama to read. Unlike the previous adaptations of the book, which overwhelmingly cast white actors for all the roles, the anime makes a point of depicting the main characters as people of color, specifically brown characters.
This racial aspect of the main characters is actually a more accurate portrayal of what they look like in the book—Alexandre Dumas goes into detail describing the race, ethnicities, and social status of his main characters. He also goes a step further to complicate this tale of vengeance by depicting the notion that, for these marginalized characters to be able to move up the social ladder, they effectively had to erase any historical ties they had with their respective communities in order to become part of high society.
Read it at Anime Feminist!
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Drawing of Mercédès de Morcerf as depicted in Gankutsuou for an Anime Moms Zine
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Sometimes when I’m blocked for ideas I redraw gankutsuou frames
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