Communion

cosette and her glock

Juan Luna’s Tampuhan, except it’s Enjolras and Grantaire

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I’m back on my Filipino Les Amis bullshit. Tampuhan, in English, means “sulking”, and I think it fits Enjolras and Grantaire perfectly.

- Quel beau marbre!

He said of Enjolras; “What beautiful marble!”

Anyone remember that one time instead of saying, "Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads," Jean Prouvaire said, "Here's to pretty boys who went to our heads"?? I think about it every day

And then joly emphasing girls when singing his part, with jehan saying "ah!" After 😭

Post Seine

Ever since I heard the Hunchback of Notre Dame musical, I wanted to draw Enjolras singing Phoebus's solo from the finale. Finally nine years later I've finally taken the time to draw it. Hugo musicals colliding, it's funny to me that two musicals based on Hugo's work are are like my top two musicals of all time. Here is a link to the song if you'd like to hear it. The solo in question is at 3:12 on that track. And if you've never listened to the album run and do it! It's based on the Disney movie with the Disney songs but is much more serious and mixes in more of Hugo's vision into it. It's wonderful.

Also if you are a fan of Hunchback please check out this other illo I did, I'm still proud of it all these years later.

Matching icons for you and the inspector who's been chasing you for decades

you pick a les mis cast recording at 16 and that’s the one you’re stuck with for the rest of your life i fear

Japanese character names

Not much info out there on Les Misérables 1929( Aa Mujo, Seika Shiba ), but I managed to scour some fun info about it. Specifically, character names! The movie takes place during the Meiji restoration, so stuff had to be changed I guess. Citation about name meanings are from Pinar, A. Western Literature in Japanese film (1910-1938) ISBN 978-84-490-8727-1

Valjean- Jaan Gijūrō (邪安義十) The first kanji for his name means “wicked” or “evil”.

Javert- Jashiro(蛇四郎) The first kanji is for “snake”. Snakes were traditionally percieved in Japanese Buddhism as messengers of gods, but during the Meiji Restoration, the religious reform banned beliefs and worship of ancestral gods. Subsequently, negative perceptions of snake arose, and they acquired harmful symbolism.

Bishop Myriel-nun Mitsuki (光月尼). Myriel has here been adapted into a Buddhist nun. Her first kanji means light, or illumination.

Marius-Ushigoro(牛五郎) His first kanji means “bull”, suggesting a nonconformist personality, vigor and force.

Cosette-Harue(春江) Her first kanji represents spring or puberty.

Fantine-Otsune(お常) The kanji in her name means unchanging or eternal.

I only have the most basic of kanji skills and this is all cited, so if there’s anything to add or something that seems wrong hmu :) the film itself is not housed in any archive and is believed lost. At the time it was considered by ciritcs to be populist and made as a cash-grab because of the popularity of Les Miserables in Japan at the time. Here’s some surviving stills from it.