Le Portraite de Petit Cosette

[HELLFIRE]

Caught the promo for it... Rose-colored-lenses girl believes the world to
be harmless, until something (tragic?) happens to her. Then she's left
wandering time until someone willing to give up something important for
her (Idunno, their life maybe? ) and she may have found it in this
artist-type guy -- damn, why isn't my life this interesting.

Bit of gore, bit of mystery, bit of the occult... 3 ep OVA coming out this spring

Homepage's http://www.cosette.jp/








Regards

[Tsushima Masaki]

And the ultimate question arises...

Is it worth it?

[Taurec]

if i leech it it doesn't have to mean i'll have to watch it .. my purpose is to generate traffic ..

[HELLFIRE]

Is it worth it?

...considering the gripes posted in the Fanservice thread, hey why not try
something different for a change NLA just put out #1 -- haven't seen
them since their stint with MZ #1 -- hopefully check this out A-SAP






Regards

[Tsushima Masaki]

Heh, ok, so this is how the rest of the week is gonna go:
Finish:
Ayashi no Ceres
Maburaho
Excel Saga
To Heart

Start:
Turn A Gundam
Pretear
SaiKano
Trigun
Tokyo Mew Mew

Follow:
Bakuretsu Tenshi
Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai
Tenjou Tenge
Hanaukyo Maids "La Verite"
Kita-he ~Diamond Dust Drops~
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Maybe check this new anime...

And then I have to find time to play video games... what a busy schedule.

[HELLFIRE]

Who is it that will love me so even to the point he'd cast away his
precious life for me? When someone drowns in the seas for my sake, I
am released from the stone and to life...to life I return onece more. But if
I were to reappear someday into a life, who can give to me the most
dearest thing? I would then cry, all alone I would cry, longing for my
stone. My blood may ripen like wine, but what use would that be? I
won't be able to bring back the one who truly loved me from the depths of
the cold waters.

So opens the 1st ep of Cosette. EERIE! Sounds like the kind of girl
you DON'T want to know, but...

Some incredibly beautiful BG animation and music in the beginning.
REALLY sets up the mood for what follows next. Kurahashi's totally stuck
on his art, while his friends go thru the typical male activity of their age:
women. He also has a side of him he doesn't talk about much -- he thinks
he's seeing things, specifically recurring illusions of Cosette and her past
life. This makes QUITE an impression on him that eventually becomes an
obsession. We're privy to Cosette's brutal murder at the hand of
someone she loves, which pushes Kurahashi over the edge. Kurahashi
goes thru the whole Devilman spiel when Costte's 'curse' takes over,
mind, body and soul, and the two are bound in a pack of blood. By the
end of the ep, Cosette's motives are revealed: in order to save the
souls of the cursed vessels, she had to revive that filthy man, and it's
become Kurahashi's duty to atone for the the sin. Nice... in the end,
was it all a dream?

So is it worth it? Animation and BGs that'll knock your eyes out, ALOT of
blood, mystical / occult / religious-rooted imagery, heavy symbolism, a
plot that isn't given away before you start up the episode...

...I'd have to say I'm keeping my eye on this! So where does Cosette
and Kurahashi go now, now that they're bound in this pact of blood









Regards

[HELLFIRE]

OPED just made available. Hope the full OST / BGM collection follows soon!







Regards

[Leaf]

Sounds interesting. Where are you guy's downloading it from though? Cause I can't find it anywhere... -__-;;

[HELLFIRE]

FINALLY got around to watching #2: Kurahashi's taking some time to get
to know Cosette better, and we get to see just HOW much she viewed
her world with rosecolored glasses. My question is Cosette in flesh-and-blood form
right now, or more a projection / spirit? Or is it all in Kurahashi's mind again?

We learn of Cosette's portraitist: Marcello Orlando 18thC Italian artist,
the d'Auvergne Family (Cosette) was his patron. Cosette in this incarnation
doesn't want to be reminded of him and what he did... what kind of person
was Orlando? Cosette doesn't want to speak of him. Was there a dark
past between the two? And is Kurahashi becoming more like Orlando?

Kurahashi's friends are keying in on his absent-mindedness... while
Kurahashi sorts things out with Cosette, and his role as the means to
purify those restless souls in those vessels, Mataki takes it upon herself
to find out whether he's 'in love,' while another tries to perform an
exorcism on him. Yikes!! The guy's in love, and he's risking his life for it...

During Cosette's final exorcism, we finally learn the connection between
her and Orlando: they were engaged, but in a fit of insanity, he wanted
to freeze her beauty for all eternity -- why is it with artist types we have
to go crazy for anyone to write a story about us?

Again, incredible BG and animation really sucks you in and sets up the
atmosphere and mood of the piece. There' some closure here as
post-exorcism, Kurahashi admires how Cosette's endured that pain
and loneliness in that small body of hers, but she doesn't have to be
alone any more now. Awwwwww!!

Mataki in the meantime wonders who Kurahashi fell in love with....
are we gonna see a catfight between the two as one seeks to possess
Kurahashi in body, while the other has claim to his soul now and forever?











Regards

[HELLFIRE]

...and the inevitable just happened. Geneon just got their hands on this --
stupid thing is I can't find anything OFFICIAL on their site, but the fansubbers've
just pulled their torrents for it. And JUST when things were getting
interesting / to the end










Regards

[Jae]

They announced it at Otakon....