[ID: A Digital Drawing Of Valjean From Les Miserables. He Is Sitting Mostly In The Dark, At A Table,

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.

Hehe mini enjolras

Enjolras animation✨✨

Quality is a bit butchered🥲

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

extremely funny btw. gavroche is like wait this adult is telling me i CAN smash streetlamps??? and valjean is like go wild kid. here's five dollars

Communion

Are you seeing my vision here with Priest Enjolras? I'm planning out my fic with Priest Enj and Witch Grantaire and imagining this scene where Enj gives him communion wine. Grantaire is just along for the ride, he enjoys teasing Enj and doesn't believe in any of it but sure he'll let Enj feed him some wine. (We'll see what happens, I'm still formulating the fic.) Notice that Enj looks concerned and is blushing, that's because he's extremely attracted to him and doesn't know how to handle that.

Also nervous to post but just want to make clear I'm not promoting religion, I'm not religious, and the fic will not be overly religious feeling. In fact it will be Grantaire convincing him to break his vows so they can be together, so I guess it's the opposite.

It takes place in the past but sorta fairytale like (imagine like maybe Beauty and the Beast village feeling sorta thing?)

would anyone like for me to ramble about how enjolras and grantaire are performing masculinity in opposite ways, with enjolras being a stereotypical "pretty boy" while grantaire is the more rugged, masculine, drunk type of typical man.

that could hint at their upbringing, with enjolras's being very obviously bourgeois, while grantaire's allows more leeway. a strong, ugly alcoholic can be found in all social classes with varying amounts, but beautiful intellectuals are usually a higher class staple.

and, to say more on the performance of masculinity thing, i would argue that both enjolras and grantaire subvert their respective stereotypes in their own ways.

enjolras rejects his wealth and works for the people, but even more importantly (in discussing gender roles), he is very much not interested in women. and not in a marius way, a way virginal and messy, but still generally heterosexual. no, enjolras devotes himself to his patria, trampling over societal expectations in the process.

i will not be touching on things such as enjolras shedding a tear over killing the artillery officer or other ways he expresses emotions, as 19th century france is still a time in which emotions were yet to be a taboo for men. and they're maybe-possibly a saint just reference.

grantaire's biggest act of defying gender roles and his stereotype is, quite clearly, his adoration of enjolras. even, if one argues against it being love (and i do believe grantaire loves enjolras, as unhealthy at most points in the brick that love is), there is no denying that such deep infatuation with a man, and not his ideals or anything, is not standard in 19th century france.

plus, to mark a thought, grantaire also makes quite a lousy nihilist. in his brick introduction, he is specifically stated not to care for ideas or himself, but to care for his friends. "his mind could live without ideals, but his heart could not live without friendship". so even presenting as a guy that does not believe in anything, grantaire fails, because he loves his friends and believes in enjolras.

^ Éponine leads the way for Marius to find Cosette, kyojinndenn

^ Petit Gervais walking on a petal, manga sekai mukashi banashi

^ The coin and Petit Gervais, manga sekai mukashi banashi

^ Javert contemplating his life choices, kyojinndenn

^ Marius blowing a kiss to Cosette, Tehran 2019 musical performance

Javert when I get my hands on him

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