Gankutsuou is very exciting.
September 14, 2008
I saw the Gankutsuou, which is TV anime series in Japan in 2004, on these days. I have watched the episode 18. Those Tv series feature spectacular images and complicated human drama. This tv series are based on afamous classic novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Gankutsuou has some diffrent point from the original story. For example, In original Monte Cristo is central charactor of the original story, but in this story, Central charactor is changed to a revenged child. I have not read original story yet, but it is no ploblem to see it. A special kind of method of animation can enjoy fantastic view of the world, and I’m so impressed with complex and dramatic story. This story have some motifs. Revenge is obviously one of them. And I think likes friendship or growth are also used main themes. For instance, description of Friendship between Albert and Franz. in epi 18, The story unfolded dramatically. This episode suggest what is friendship.Before this episode, There are the implied descriptions of friendship of between Monte Cristo and Morcerf who is father of Albert, I thought these two relationships looks constrastive. I can’t write concretely, but this episode is doing good.It’s a cliff-hanger.