| Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette | |
| Ja Kanji: | レ・ミゼラブル 少女コゼット |
| Ja Romaji: | Re Mizeraburu Shōjo Kozetto |
| Genre: | Drama, historical fiction |
| Type: | tv series |
| Director: | Hiroaki Sakurai |
| Producer: | Kōichi Motohashi |
| Music: | Hayato Matsuo |
| Studio: | Nippon Animation |
| Network: | BS Fuji, Animax, Spacetoon |
| First: | January 7, 2007 |
| Last: | December 30, 2007 |
| Episodes: | 52 |
| Episode List: |
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is a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, and the first installment in the World Masterpiece Theater series in ten years after Remi, Nobody's Girl.[1] It is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic 1862 novel Les Misérables, and the fourth anime adaptation of said novel (following two adaptations from the Japanese television program Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi, and a 1979 TV film special produced by Toei Animation).
It premiered across Japan on January 7, 2007, on Fuji TV's BS Fuji broadcast satellite network, and contains twenty-six episodes each season, for a total of fifty-two episodes. It also aired in Japan on Animax beginning in April 2007.
Set in nineteenth century-era France, the series begins with Cosette, a three-year-old girl, traveling with her mother Fantine, who is trying to find a job and a place to live, but have always been shunned away due to few employers hiring single mothers. When her mother is promised with the prosperity of working in the big city, Cosette is separated from her in the hopes a caretaker named Thénardier will watch over her while her mother earns some money. Unfortunately, this was a trick and the caretaker is a corrupt man who makes Cosette his indentured servant, or more precisely: his slave. Then, the kind mayor—formerly a convict named Jean Valjean—of the town that Cosette makes her new home in, sees how winds of change are so detrimental for children and families, and decides to do something about it, but forces Cosette to go on the run to escape his returning, difficult past.
| Character(s) | Voice actor(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Kaori Nazuka Tamaki Matsumoto (3 years old) | ||
| Masashi Sugawara | ||
| Emiko Hagiwara | ||
| Takashi Matsuyama | ||
| Yumiko Kobayashi | ||
| Masahito Yabe | ||
| Okami (Mme. Thénardier) | Mami Horikoshi | |
| Yūko Sasamoto Yūki Ōtomo (4 years old) | ||
| Kurumi Mamiya Chihiro Yarita (2 years old) | ||
| Marius Alain | Anri Katsu | |
| Yūji Kishi | ||
| Wataru Hatano | ||
| Eiji Takemoto | ||
| Yoshinori Fujita | ||
| Norihisa Mori | ||
| Ryō Naitō | ||
| Daisuke Matsubara | ||
| Takahiro Yoshimizu | ||
| Yūki Chiba | ||
| Kōji Yusa | ||
| Junichi Endō | ||
| Akio Suyama | ||
| Tetsu Inada | ||
| Zéphine | Atsuko Tanaka | |
| Toron | Naomi Shindō | |
| Béatrice | Miyuki Sawashiro | |
| Charlotte | Nozomi Sasaki | |
| Audrey | Haruka Tomatsu | |
| Hugues (One of the Thénardiers' youngest sons) | Ai Tokunaga | |
| Bressole (One of the Thénardiers' youngest sons) | Yūko Sanpei | |
| Mika Kanai | ||
| Takkō Ishimori | ||
| Tetsuo Komura | ||
| Marius' Aunt (Mademoiselle Gillenormand) | Miyuki Ono | |
| Akihiko Ishizumi | ||
| Bin Shimada | ||
| Chikao Ōtsuka | ||
| Shinpachi Tsuji | ||
| Aiko Hibi | ||
| Seiko Tamura | ||
| Chabouillet | Ryūji Mizuno | |
| Hucheloup | Takuma Suzuki | |
| Mylène | Miyuki Kawashō |
The anime was dubbed and broadcast in: