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Gankutsuou
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The year is 5053. A young French nobleman, Viscount Albert de Morcerf and his friend Baron Franz d'Epinay are partying hard on the moon colony of Luna, when a dark, ominous, blue-skinned stranger suddenly steps into their lives. Said stranger is the self-made Count of Monte Cristo, a man with incredible riches, unusual powers, and an unnatural interest in our hero, Albert. (The Count also appears to have some sort of mysterious connection to Albert's parents—as if he had somehow known them in the past, although neither of them can ever remember seeing the Count before.)As time passes, the Count insinuates himself further and further into Albert's life and into the lives of the people he knows. But what is the Count's true reason for doing so? Is he, as he claims, a harmless wannabe nobleman who just wants to be introduced into High Society, or does he have a much darker purpose in mind?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Gankutsuou is a 24-episode paraphrased P.O.V. Sequel of Alexandre Dumas' famous novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, set far into the future (thus also sharing some similarities with Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination) and viewed through an anime-and-LSD filter. Because it's based on a work of Western Literature, it has an unusual pace and plot for an anime, choosing to ignore many of the most common tropes that one tends to find in that medium. It also has a weird visual style with fantastically rendered CG backgrounds and characters with elaborate clothing patterns that remain stationary as the clothing and characters themselves move. Some viewers are awed by this aesthetic, while others are so put off by it that they stop watching the show. (You'll know about five minutes in what kind of viewer you are.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })See, also, The Vampire Count Of Monte Cristo. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Not only the Count, but also Fernand, Mercedes, Villefort and Danglars and Benedetto/Andrea Cavalcanti. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Three for the price of one! The Morcerfs have a Smug Snake patriarch, a mother, and a Butt-Monkey son. The Villefort patriarch is a Hanging Judge and the matriarch is a Master Poisoner. But let's not forget the Danglars Family. A controlling Fat Bastard of a father, his cheating wife, and an on-and-off Type A Stepford Smiler for their daughter. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Quite a bit of backstory (for example, everything between the Count's escape from the Chateau d'If to the first episode) is included only in the manga. Or possibly the novel. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The production team made huge changes to the story in the very last moment - so much so that the original TV trailers feature some characters looking different than how they ended up, footage that didn't make it in the end, and events that either never took place or were played out in a different way. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Fernand is pretty good at hamming it up, too. "Mercedes!" | |
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Sins of Our Fathers | |
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Sins of Our Fathers: Another major theme in the series. While the parents who wronged the Count are selfish, greedy, or just outright evil (with a few exceptions) and might deserve their punishment, their children suffer just as much despite being good, if naive people merely because they're related to their parents. | |
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Death by Materialism | |
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Death by Materialism: Danglars who is left to starve to death on a stalled ship surrounded with gold instead of food. | |
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ChildhoodFriendRomance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Franz and Eugénie are both in love with their childhood friend Albert. | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses: Baron Danglars does this occasionally; Villefort more often, though his is a Scary Shiny Monocle. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: The Count is a fine example. He's even strongly associated with Tchaikowski's "Manfred Symphony," which is itself based on Lord Byron's "Manfred." The creator, Mahiro Maeda, has even said in an interview that he was influenced by Byron when creating the Count's character. Of course, this is also a reference to the original Count, who is compared to Manfred by several characters in the book. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A number of them: the watch the Count gives to Albert that later turns out to be a bugging device; the blue roses seen in Valentine's room; the two mecha in the hall of Albert's home that both end up being used, one by Franz and one by Fernand; and an actual gun: in episode 10 we see a gun hidden in Fernand's drawer. In the penultimate episode he'll use this to shoot Mercedes and Albert, then commit suicide. And lastly, in episode 18, Franz's broken sword shard that is lodged in the Count's heart, which hands Karmic Death to the Count in the penultimate episode. | |
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IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight | |
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"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Albert and the Count. In the act of turning back into a human, the Count suddenly becomes vulnerable to a wound he received earlier which now kills him. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love: Albert was oblivious of Franz's feelings for him. It helped that Franz kept his feelings a secret from everyone. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Peppo, the young bandit who poses as a woman to lure marks into the bandits' clutches and then joins Albert's household staff as a maid. Cheerful and friendly, and one of the more wholesome characters in the entire series. As usual for the Japanese version of the trope, is never seen in masculine clothing and entire episodes go by without drawing attention to the fact that the young lady is not what she seems. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: A central theme in the case of the Count. When his plans start to come to fruition he starts committing horrible, vindictive crimes up to killing Franz in cold blood just to see if he was fully committed to exacting his revenge. It goes to show that the Count might be far worse than the men who wronged him. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Albert. (Even his virginity is emphasized a couple of times.) Then he undergoes a Break the Cutie process. | |
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal | |
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Unsettling Gender Reveal: Happens to Albert. Then Peppo (the 'lady') uses it to wind him up for the rest of the series. It's implied that Peppo is truly is a man since in the epilogue, Baptistin sees Peppo has become a model and is weirded out by it (if Peppo is a girl, that would not be too surprising). Peppo is confirmed to be male by the manga adaptation, as well as originally being a boy crossdressing as a girl to seduce Albert in the novel. | |
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Two Guys and a Girl | |
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Two Guys and a Girl: Edmond Dantes and Albert's parents. Averted with Valentine, Franz, and Maximilien because of Franz' love interest. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: The pattern for Albert's pirate outfit says "PIRATE ALBERT". Also, "Happy Birthday, Albert." | |
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The Punishment | |
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The Punishment: The person who received dark, almost supernatural powers as a result of his punishment was innocent. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Invoked in the end by the Count's two servants Baptistin and Bertuccio of all people as they both refuse to kill Albert, who at this point is willing to forgive and even save the Count despite all the crap the Count put him through, under the Count's order. Bertuccio previously swore to walk down the path of Hell with the Count, which shows just how depraved and monstrous the Count has become in his pursuit for vengeance. During the Count's duel, all 4 of his servants visibly cringe at his brutality. | |
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Symbolic Blood | |
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Symbolic Blood: Shed in large quantities by the mechas during the duel scenes. It would actually be very gory if it weren't for them being mechanical. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: The Count has been planning his vengeance for years, slowly building a power base throughout high society and the criminal underworld. When the time his right his vengeance is excruciating and vicious. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: There's a lot of French (most of the on-screen writing, for a start), but where it really goes over the line is that there is one character who is distinguished by speaking only in French, in the midst of all these French characters speaking what appears to be Japanese. It can be assumed that everybody speaks French, but is dubbed in Japanese for convenience. The narration at the beginning of each episode is spoken in grammatically correct French, although with a very heavy accent. The rest of the French in the series is generally correct. Unsurprisingly, the name of the correspondent in Japan from the biggest French anime magazine pops up in the end credits as a language consultant... Draw your own conclusions. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Without his dramatic poses and mannerisms, the Count would just be... Edmond Dantes? | |
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Runaway Bride | |
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Runaway Bride: Eugénie becomes this towards Andrea, who was forcing her to marry him. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The setting is an odd combination of the novel's 19th century setting, mid-twentieth century elements (i.e. the cars) and far future technology | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: If this had been live action the wardrobe budget would have been astronomical with lush patterns and outright insane garbs being worn left and right. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The kids are free of the sins and control of their parents and can live their own lives. Valentine and Maximilien are living in Marseilles peacefully. Debray is the Secretary of the Interior and Beauchamp is an Assistant Editor-In-Chief. Eugenie has realized her dream as a concert pianist, Albert has matured into a responsible young man who is working under the Ambassador to Janina, and Haydee is on the eve of her coronation while a peace treaty is signed with Eastern Space. However, it came at the price of innocents such as Franz who gave his life for Albert, their families were brought to ruin, Benedetto and Caderousse are at large, and the Count's redemption ended with his death. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: Franz had to suffer a lot because of his unrequited love for Albert. Of course Albert didn't know that Franz is in love with him (and Franz never planned to let him know) which puts things in a slightly different perspective. Albert's platonic (?) crush on the Count, and the Count's genuine affection for him. Eugenie whose engagement to Albert is cut off just as they begin to be honest with their feelings. Luckily they share a Big Damn Kiss when Albert helps her run away to New York to realize her dreams and are reunited in the Distant Finale. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: In the beginning The Count only pretends to like Albert when in reality he only views him as a tool for his revenge. However, as time goes on, he finds himself developing real feelings for Albert which cause him lots of angst and heartbreak, but ultimately save him in the end. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Every character has one romantic link or another to every other character. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Also, the Count's Shirtless Scene after he gets shot by Villefort. Turns out his whole body is Fan Disservice. | |
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Adult Fear | |
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Adult Fear: What the Count inflicts on a number of his enemies either directly or indirectly. A few examples include Noirtier de Villefort having to watch as his granddaughter Valentine writhes in agony from poison and being unable to even speak out, Mercedes seeing as the Count (the man she loved years ago) cuts down her son in a duel (though it was actually Franz), and coming close to having Albert murdered in front of his own father. Such actions are meant to emphasize the loss of the Count's humanity and how he's become no better than the men who wronged him. | |
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ThemeTuneCameo | |
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Theme Tune Cameo: The opening theme song appears in other forms several times during the action of the show. | |
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Facial Markings | |
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Facial Markings: The "eyes" on the Count's forehead are a manifestation of his power, and are only visible when he's using it. These facial (later full body) markings are a Homage to Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger! Tiger!), one main source of inspiration for the writer. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Gankutsuou was sealed away for a thousand years but released some years before the start of the story. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Franz is a relatively minor supporting character in the book who lives to the end; in the anime he is given a more prominent role that culminates in a Heroic Sacrifice to save Albert. In the book, Danglars is spared by the Count after the deaths of Héloïse and Edouard cause him to reconsider his methods and have a change of heart. Those two are Spared by the Adaptation (and the anime's Count is in any case more hard-hearted about that kind of thing), so there is no reconsidering and the Count leaves Danglars to die. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
Gankutsuou / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Edmond, Albert, Mercedes and Franz all suffer horrible atrocities in one manner or another. And they deserved none of it. | |
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FatBastard | |
Gankutsuou / int_51300dbf | comment |
Fat Bastard: Baron Danglars. Although flashbacks show that, while he wasn't always fat, he was always a bastard. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_5255ac2f | type |
BringOutYourGayDead | |
Gankutsuou / int_5255ac2f | comment |
Bring Out Your Gay Dead: Averted. Despite the death of Franz d'Epinay The show is far from being homophobic with all that Ho Yay. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_57d43e40 | type |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
Gankutsuou / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Nearly all references to foreign countries and customs from the book are replaced with "Eastern Space." Rome is replaced with Luna, a city on the moon that resembles a cross between old world Italy and modern day New Orleans. Haydee, who was an ethnic Turk in the book, is shown as a pale faced, pointy eared alien from a civilization that is a cross between Middle Eastern and Chinese influences. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_59aa1d0b | type |
RecycledINSPACE | |
Gankutsuou / int_59aa1d0b | comment |
Recycled INSPACE: To the point where characters that were from the orient in The Count of Monte Cristo are from eastern space in Gankutsuou. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_59aa1d0b | |
Gankutsuou / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
Gankutsuou / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Incompatible Orientation: Franz's love for Albert | |
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Gankutsuou / int_5c99b642 | type |
War for Fun and Profit | |
Gankutsuou / int_5c99b642 | comment |
War for Fun and Profit: The motivation for the assassination of the Prince. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_5c99b642 | |
Gankutsuou / int_5f45ab38 | type |
Space Jews | |
Gankutsuou / int_5f45ab38 | comment |
Space Jews: Foreign characters like Ali, Haydée, etc. are aliens. The series uses the term "Eastern Space" for locations that were in Turkey/the Middle East in the novel. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_5f45ab38 | |
Gankutsuou / int_5f70322e | type |
Public Domain Soundtrack | |
Gankutsuou / int_5f70322e | comment |
Public Domain Soundtrack: Tchaikovsky's "Manfred symphony" is used a lot - the first movement is the Count's own theme and excerpts from latter movements are also used here and there. Eugénie plays the first movement (edited, though) of Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 2" and Schumann's "Traumerei" during her performance in the Opera, on Luna Albert and Franz meet the Count during a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", later in Paris the Count invites Albert to a performance of "Robert le Diable"... and the opening theme song is based partly on Chopin's "Etude Op.10 No.3." | |
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Gankutsuou / int_5f70322e | |
Gankutsuou / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
Gankutsuou / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: Franz becomes this to the Count when Franz decides to participate in the duel instead of Albert and id killed. This not only derails the Count's plan to be rid of his Edmond Dantes part of soul but also hands him Karmic Death in the end. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_60194b82 | |
Gankutsuou / int_603f1a80 | type |
Pragmatic Adaptation | |
Gankutsuou / int_603f1a80 | comment |
Pragmatic Adaptation: Due to how long the novel is there was a lot that had to be streamlined or switched around in order to fit it into the running time such as most of the Count's preparation for exacting his vengeance. The protagonist being Albert also led to big changes in the tone of the series. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_603f1a80 | |
Gankutsuou / int_60492b98 | type |
Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
Gankutsuou / int_60492b98 | comment |
Have You Told Anyone Else?: Edmond, being a naïf, misses the significance of Villefort asking him this. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_60492b98 | |
Gankutsuou / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
Gankutsuou / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The reason Peppo helps Albert crash Euginie's wedding. Also the reason for Franz's Heroic Sacrifice. Franz helps Maximilian understand that this is the best way to love someone early on. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_60547993 | |
Gankutsuou / int_606244c2 | type |
Parental Incest | |
Gankutsuou / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Benedetto and Madame Danglars. | |
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1.0 | |
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Gankutsuou / int_606244c2 | |
Gankutsuou / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
Gankutsuou / int_61375e57 | comment |
Eugenie whose engagement to Albert is cut off just as they begin to be honest with their feelings. Luckily they share a Big Damn Kiss when Albert helps her run away to New York to realize her dreams and are reunited in the Distant Finale. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_61375e57 | |
Gankutsuou / int_61f452ca | type |
Sinister Shades | |
Gankutsuou / int_61f452ca | comment |
Sinister Shades: Bertuccio wears a pair. They're Opaque Lenses most of the time, but become translucent when he has moments of humanity. (And on one memorable occasion, when he's struggling with his conscience, one lens becomes translucent while the other remains opaque.) Baron Danglars wears these all the time, as well. In his case they signify his shifty character. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_61f452ca | |
Gankutsuou / int_629fa757 | type |
Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
Gankutsuou / int_629fa757 | comment |
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Albert and Eugénie. Although Albert initially isn't in love with her (though Eugénie was revealed to have always been in love with him). | |
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Gankutsuou / int_629fa757 | |
Gankutsuou / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Gankutsuou / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Franz, who drugs Albert and takes his place in a Humongous Mecha duel with the Count. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6439de78 | |
Gankutsuou / int_64e975cf | type |
Manly Tears | |
Gankutsuou / int_64e975cf | comment |
Manly Tears: The Count cries a few times (mostly over Albert), but doesn't sacrifice his dignity by doing so. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_64e975cf | |
Gankutsuou / int_6774150c | type |
If I Can't Have You… | |
Gankutsuou / int_6774150c | comment |
If I Can't Have You...: Morcerf shoots his wife and son when he realizes he has lost everything. Mercedes offered him a Last-Second Chance to go away with her and leave everything behind; when he declares I've Come Too Far and persists in his Villainous B.S.O.D., she tells him that she's leaving him then — though she'll always be grateful for what's he's done for her and never forget what they shared together — that's when he shoots her and then he shoots their son for trying to stop him/avenge his mother. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6774150c | |
Gankutsuou / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
Gankutsuou / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Fairly late in the series the Count breaks down sobbing, as his next move involves destroying his friendship with Albert - and then the sobs turn to chuckles and soon he's howling with mad laughter. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_68068108 | |
Gankutsuou / int_694da243 | type |
At the Opera Tonight | |
Gankutsuou / int_694da243 | comment |
At the Opera Tonight: Albert's first meeting with the Count and when he gets the pocketwatch as well as the first time he sees Haydée. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_694da243 | |
Gankutsuou / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
Gankutsuou / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: Gankutsuou is defeated by hugs and kisses dished out by Albert. It wasn't Albert who triggered the reversal the transformation, it was Edmond's own feelings (his soul,) that he'd tried to get rid of (which was the point of his duel with Albert, however Franz stepped in and ruined his plans), awakened by Albert's hugs and kisses. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6a696742 | |
Gankutsuou / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Gankutsuou / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: For all that Baron de Danglars is generally an irredeemable, controlling, money-grubbing jerkass, he actually does has a point when he stops Eugénie from leaving their home following the breaking of the Morcerf scandal, pointing out that the journalists will eat her alive. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6b05b601 | |
Gankutsuou / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Gankutsuou / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The fact that Edmond Dantes's name may evoke "demon" and Dante's Inferno is taken literally in the anime. note 'Dantes' may not be reference to Dante (in fact, the correct spelling is 'Dantès'. Some literary critics would disagree with this point. "Dantès" is a possible Southern French equivalent of the name "Dante." | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6bda9a30 | |
Gankutsuou / int_6f189981 | type |
Unusual Ears | |
Gankutsuou / int_6f189981 | comment |
Unusual Ears: The Count has pointed ears as does Haydée. Bertuccio has a pair coupled with a matching pair of fangs - neither of which he had before joining the Count's team. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_6f189981 | |
Gankutsuou / int_71a223fc | type |
Up to Eleven | |
Gankutsuou / int_71a223fc | comment |
This is carried over from the novel, where the Count is compared to a vampire by the Countess G—-. It's just dialed Up to Eleven by giving him a vampire's magical properties instead of just being a guy who fits the traditional suave vampire archetype. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_71a223fc | |
Gankutsuou / int_7289b368 | type |
Idiot Hero | |
Gankutsuou / int_7289b368 | comment |
Idiot Hero: If only Albert had listened to Franz. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_7289b368 | |
Gankutsuou / int_73731600 | type |
Lecherous Licking | |
Gankutsuou / int_73731600 | comment |
Lecherous Licking: One scene has Andrea naked in a bathtub strewn with rose petals, drinking red wine...and then he crushes the wineglass in his hand until he bleeds, and he promptly licks the blood from his arm. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_73731600 | |
Gankutsuou / int_737a65f4 | type |
The Watson | |
Gankutsuou / int_737a65f4 | comment |
Franz is a minor character in the novel who receives exposition in one short section of the story and serves as an easily overcome roadblock to the Official Couple. In the anime he becomes integral to the two main characters' relationship. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_737a65f4 | |
Gankutsuou / int_7453bc5b | type |
Spared by the Adaptation | |
Gankutsuou / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: The poisoner is revealed to be Héloïse much earlier than in the book, far too early for the resultant deaths of Héloïse and Edouard, so those two wind up surviving to the end. Caderousse also makes it out alive in this version. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_7453bc5b | |
Gankutsuou / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
Gankutsuou / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Mesdames, Messieurs, bonsoir." "Wait and Hope." | |
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Gankutsuou / int_7464705c | |
Gankutsuou / int_771f6307 | type |
BrotherSisterIncest | |
Gankutsuou / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: It's non-consensual, which makes it even more squicky. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_771f6307 | |
Gankutsuou / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
Gankutsuou / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Eugénie, saying how she didn't like being engaged to Albert. It has more to do that it was decided for her instead of having a say in the matter. She mellows out over the series and even shares a Big Damn Kiss with Albert. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_7ef728b1 | |
Gankutsuou / int_7f3be191 | type |
Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
Gankutsuou / int_7f3be191 | comment |
Impossibly Cool Clothes: It's the future! Everybody wears these! Furthermore they're meant to evoke nineteenth century garb that Parisian nobles would have loved to show off. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_7f3be191 | |
Gankutsuou / int_80621707 | type |
Arranged Marriage | |
Gankutsuou / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: Several plot points revolve around these, which are apparently common amongst futuristic aristocrats. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_80621707 | |
Gankutsuou / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
Gankutsuou / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super Soldier: Maximilien is one due to muscle enhancements for special forces, but he is also a Gentle Giant. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_80b57bec | |
Gankutsuou / int_823c6e3e | type |
LargeHam | |
Gankutsuou / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: We all love the Count's melodramatic narcissism. Fernand is pretty good at hamming it up, too. "Mercedes!" | |
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Gankutsuou / int_823c6e3e | |
Gankutsuou / int_83a8d697 | type |
Oblivious Guilt Slinging | |
Gankutsuou / int_83a8d697 | comment |
Franz had to suffer a lot because of his unrequited love for Albert. Of course Albert didn't know that Franz is in love with him (and Franz never planned to let him know) which puts things in a slightly different perspective. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_83a8d697 | |
Gankutsuou / int_8513bc0f | type |
Accidental Public Confession | |
Gankutsuou / int_8513bc0f | comment |
Accidental Public Confession: At Villefort's trial, Andrea Cavalcanti shows up, and angers Villefort into confessing that he had an illegitimate son with Danglars' wife and burying said son alive. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_8513bc0f | |
Gankutsuou / int_85ca9dab | type |
Second Love | |
Gankutsuou / int_85ca9dab | comment |
Second Love: Valentine's first love was her fiancé Franz, but she eventually returns Maximilien's feelings and ends up with him. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_85ca9dab | |
Gankutsuou / int_8605f0c0 | type |
Promoted to Love Interest | |
Gankutsuou / int_8605f0c0 | comment |
Promoted to Love Interest: Eugénie Danglars. In the original novel she detested Albert (and all other men for that matter) and ran away to have a lesbian relationship with her piano instructor. In Gankutsuou the instructor has been cut out and Eugénie's been changed to something similar to a Tsundere. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_8605f0c0 | |
Gankutsuou / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Gankutsuou / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Gankutsuou, which appears to be some kind of space demon qualifies. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_8774fb47 | |
Gankutsuou / int_87ede6fc | type |
That Man Is Dead | |
Gankutsuou / int_87ede6fc | comment |
That Man Is Dead: The Count insists Edmond Dantes is long dead until he dies as himself, asking that Albert and Haydee remember that his name was Edmond Dantes. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_87ede6fc | |
Gankutsuou / int_88574a | type |
Narrator All Along | |
Gankutsuou / int_88574a | comment |
Narrator All Along: It slowly becomes apparent that the narrator of the Previously On segments is none other than Gankutsuou itself. | |
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Gankutsuou / int_88574a | |
Gankutsuou / int_88965d8d | type |
TricksterArchetype | |
Gankutsuou / int_88965d8d | comment |
Trickster Archetype: The Count has several personae, tricks people and is occasionally himself tricked, displays a confusing moral ambiguity and a total disrespect for social conventions, is histrionic, and also lives beyond traditional boundaries such as good and evil, victim and predator, alive and dead or undead, human and monster, earthling and alien. He also has some characteristics of a Shapeshifter (see his spectacular and painful transformations into Gankutsuou and the fact that when Fernand impales him with the sword of his Humongous Mecha, he turns into a mist and reappears in his own mecha, vampire-style). | |
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Gankutsuou / int_88965d8d | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
Gankutsuou / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: The Count's plan for his enemies is explicitly to do this to them so badly that they will long for death, but not receive it. | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye | |
Gankutsuou / int_8a164766 | comment |
Never Got to Say Goodbye: Franz to his father. Not only did he not say goodbye, he also told him he hopes he never comes back. Oops. | |
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Mind Rape | |
Gankutsuou / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: Edmond undergoes a major one in prison, although it's way more explicit in the manga. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
Gankutsuou / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Morcerf, Danglars, and Villefort all richly deserve what the Count plans for them, both for what they did to him and for the terrible things they have done since. Unfortunately, they aren't the only ones who are to suffer. | |
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Secret-Identity Identity | |
Gankutsuou / int_8f350291 | comment |
Secret Identity Identity: Although he has fewer personae than in the novel, "Edmond" is so absorbed by his persona as the Count and as "Gankutsuou" that he keeps claiming that Edmond died in prison and was reborn as the Count of Monte Cristo - until the last few seconds before his death. Interestingly, he still signs "Edmond Dantes" when he wants to terrify his former oppressors. One might argue that "Edmond Dantes" is a social construction that exists in a few characters' (arguably deformed or idealized) memories while the Count is very real -and out for some aristocratic blood. | |
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Glamour Failure | |
Gankutsuou / int_90984c54 | comment |
Glamour Failure: The Count appears blurry and out-of-focus in photographs, and his voice doesn't register on audio recordings. | |
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Split-Personality Takeover | |
Gankutsuou / int_90a1fbd4 | comment |
Split-Personality Takeover:Gankutsuou controls the Count more and more as their pact nears completion. | |
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Karmic Death | |
Gankutsuou / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Anybody punished to the bitter end by the Count. And the Count himself: remember in what fight he got a piece of sword lodged in his heart? | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
Gankutsuou / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Happens to the Count in the end. See Karmic Death entry above. | |
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TransformationTrauma | |
Gankutsuou / int_93773e14 | comment |
Transformation Trauma: Boy, does the Count's transformation into Gankutsuou in the anime look (and sound) painful. In the manga, his first transformation in prison is even worse, as it involves violent hallucinations, mangling, rape metaphors, and of course a demonic entity. His look of utter "What the hell was this!?" when he looks at his hands in the aftermath says it all, really. | |
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Unmoving Plaid | |
Gankutsuou / int_9397414 | comment |
Unmoving Plaid: Taking to such extremes that it defines the series' entire art style in a divisive fashion; it's used not just for clothes, but for absolutely everything with a texture. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
Gankutsuou / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Played with. While the parent characters range from selfish to nasty to even outright evil the children who were born into the upper classes are at worst spoiled but good people. Furthermore a lot of the nobles bought their titles. | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
Gankutsuou / int_97522514 | comment |
Heel–Face Revolving Door: The Count's minions, particularly Baptistin and Bertuccio. | |
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Not So Different | |
Gankutsuou / int_993cf18f | comment |
Not So Different: In his pursuit of revenge, the Count has become just as cruel as if not more so than the people who ruined him. This is explicitly spelled out in the end whereupon Fernand holds Haydée hostage, the Count orders Bertuccio to just kill Albert regardless of what happens to Haydée. Thankfully, it's also at this point that Baptistan and Bertuccio disobey the Count for the first time. Gankutsuou is more than happy to just walk away once the Count's soul is in its possession. It was the Count who did all the plotting to destroy those one wronged him. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
Gankutsuou / int_99e14f05 | comment |
All-Loving Hero: Albert becomes something of this, especially at the end where he forgives The Count for everything and uses the Power of Love to save the day. | |
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EvilCounterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: The Count is Albert's evil counterpart, while Fernand is Franz's. They even hang a lampshade on it with a flashback of Edmond and Fernand at the beach that is a mirror image of an earlier (or is it later?) flashback of Albert and Franz there. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
Gankutsuou / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Apparently, this is what Chateau d'If does to you. Albert is a more debatable case. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Gankutsuou / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The Count, Andrea, and Fernand have some juicy moments, and the structure and intonations of spoken Japanese lend themselves to them very well. TAKE THE HAMMER STRIKE. OF REVENGE! Close-up on the Count's face, cue to some crazy Humongous Mecha fight. | |
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DistressedDamsel | |
Gankutsuou / int_9f5e99a7 | comment |
Distressed Damsel: Valentine's poisoning. Eugénie's rush to the altar. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
Gankutsuou / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: The Count isn't technically a vampire, but the fact that he has several of their characteristics is Lampshaded several times and he doesn't have all of their characteristics. This is carried over from the novel, where the Count is compared to a vampire by the Countess G—-. It's just dialed Up to Eleven by giving him a vampire's magical properties instead of just being a guy who fits the traditional suave vampire archetype. | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
Gankutsuou / int_a0b0840c | comment |
More Expendable Than You: The above-mentioned Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Homage | |
Gankutsuou / int_a1a1491e | comment |
These facial (later full body) markings are a Homage to Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger! Tiger!), one main source of inspiration for the writer. | |
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Eye Scream | |
Gankutsuou / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Luigi Vampa. During the rescue of Albert, the Count holds a very sharp knife to his eye before the screen blacks out. When Luigi next appears, he's wearing an eyepatch over that eye. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
Gankutsuou / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Franz is a minor character in the novel who receives exposition in one short section of the story and serves as an easily overcome roadblock to the Official Couple. In the anime he becomes integral to the two main characters' relationship. Early in the novel, Albert is lured into the clutches of bandits by a young woman who turns out to be a young male bandit in disguise. The young bandit doesn't appear again in the novel, but in the anime he goes on to join Albert's household staff (as a maid) and play a supporting role throughout the series. Interestingly, Peppo was originally meant to be a marginal character like in the novel, however in the end the writers thought he was too much fun not to keep around. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: Of one of the most seminal works in Western literature. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Gankutsuou / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Benedetto escapes from prison amidst the confusion of the bombardment of Paris, and is last seen in the Distant Finale having become a notorious master criminal. Also Caderousse who is a slimy, greedy little imp. | |
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Hanging Judge | |
Gankutsuou / int_a80ad52c | comment |
Hanging Judge: Villefort, who is referred to in the subtitles as "the hanging judge". | |
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Eccentric Millionaire | |
Gankutsuou / int_a8de2a46 | comment |
Eccentric Millionaire: The Count plays this part. | |
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Actionized Adaptation | |
Gankutsuou / int_accd97de | comment |
Actionized Adaptation: The original book has very few action scenes, with two duels interrupted before they can begin. In the anime, both duels proceed, with additional action elements such as the duellists piloting giant mecha. | |
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Near-Rape Experience | |
Gankutsuou / int_ae4845db | comment |
Near-Rape Experience: When Andrea Cavalcanti shows his true colors toward Eugénie. Andrea gets another moment with Haydée, but luckily Gankutsuou puts a quick stop to that. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
Gankutsuou / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Let's just say that convicts unlucky enough to end up "incarcerated" in the prison/space fortress, Chateau d'If won't mind execution after being literally plugged into its control system. | |
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Foreign Language Theme | |
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Foreign Language Theme: Both the opening and the ending songs are in English. | |
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Oedipus Complex | |
Gankutsuou / int_b3096202 | comment |
Oedipus Complex: The manga implies that Albert is looking for a father figure in the Count because he has issues with his authoritarian real father. He also has an interesting relationship with his mother. There's Andrea who takes this to the logical extreme: although he doesn't kill his father he gives him a poison that destroys his mind, he has sex with his mother and tries to rape his half-sister. | |
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Courtroom Antic | |
Gankutsuou / int_b327e120 | comment |
Courtroom Antic: Lots of these occur in the last part of the series, which include reveal-tacular Penultimate Outbursts by and about various characters. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Stay away from creepy people who live on the moon. | |
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Moral Myopia | |
Gankutsuou / int_b42b7e7b | comment |
Moral Myopia: After learning the truth about the Count, Albert insists that the Count's revenge against his father doesn't justify all that Albert himself has suffered in the process. In the same breath, he then declares that he will get his own revenge on the Count, no matter how justified the Count's hatred of his father is. Luckily, once the heat of the moment is gone he comes to his senses. | |
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Truer to the Text | |
Gankutsuou / int_b552b24 | comment |
Truer to the Text: Despite the sci-fi setting, this is thematically the closest to Dumas' story than any other modern interpretation. While most modern takes on the story paint it as an adventure tale with the Count as an antihero who's justified in his actions, this show presents the count squarely as a villain with a Freudian Excuse, calling to light how his revenge overreached "justifiable" by utterly destroying the lives of his enemies' children and their friends. The original Dumas text notes that Edmond, as The Count, bears a resemblance to Lord Ruthven. The anime, in accordance, makes him a literal Space Vampire. | |
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Revenge by Proxy | |
Gankutsuou / int_b77eb3b2 | comment |
Revenge by Proxy: The Count tries to kill Albert to make his father suffer. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
Gankutsuou / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Maximilien, who had a lot more to do with the Count's redemption in the novel. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
Gankutsuou / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: The titular Count wears a rather terrifying example of this when everything is going according to plan (which usually involves a humiliating and/or painful death) | |
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Everything's Better with Sparkles | |
Gankutsuou / int_bdb0438e | comment |
Everything's Better with Sparkles: Haydée attends an opera in one episode wearing what can only be described as the sparkliest dress ever. For reference the dress is taller than the Count, while Haydée stands behind him, and is as wide as the opera booth, as seen here◊. | |
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Compressed Adaptation | |
Gankutsuou / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation, yet still the longest adaption of the novel in terms of hours...it's a very big book. | |
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Conspicuous CG | |
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Conspicuous CG: Most of the backgrounds are fantastically rendered in 3-D. It's used so much in this production that it is the non-CG stuff — e.g., the character's faces — that are conspicuous. | |
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Ill Girl | |
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Ill Girl: Valentine is a very moody, sickly girl who tends to stay indoors and tend to her wheelchair-bound grandfather. It turns out she's being poisoned by her stepmother. | |
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HoYay | |
Gankutsuou / int_c325f125 | comment |
Debatable, since it adds a large dose of Ho Yay between Albert and the Count, and Franz and Albert. Even Eugénie was originally designed to be a lesbian (the trailer even has her leaning in to kiss her piano teacher), but that was changed when she was retooled into Albert's love interest. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Albert just keeps insisting that the Count isn't evil or maniacal. However, it's also because of his innocence that he realizes that the Count's actions are because he was so deeply hurt by people he trusted and loved and why Albert's able to forgive the Count. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Héloïse's masturbation scene and Andrea's sex scene with Victoria, his mother. Also, the Count's Shirtless Scene after he gets shot by Villefort. Turns out his whole body is Fan Disservice. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In Episode 12, Albert turns on a lamp in front of an old music flier. The flier is written in Serbian, and advertises an actual venue located in present day Belgrade, called Kolarčeva Zaduzbina. The opera seen in Episode 1 is Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with the famous Mad Scene being highlighted. The Count's Emerald pill-case is lifted directly from the novel, in which the Count has a hallowed-out emerald in which he keeps hashish. Also various other details—the samurai armor in Albert's room, is also mentioned in the novel (well, some sort of armor of oriental origin, which could have meant it was from almost anywhere in the general vicinity Asia given the era the novel was written). Various other visual details and even a few snippets of conversation make the transition exactly, which is actually kind of surprising considering the change in focus and setting the series underwent, and besides which shows the attention to detail of the crew involved. On that note, should we add a "shown their work" entry to the main page or something? On that note, if you pay very close attention, a few characters from the original book pop up - even if they don't actually appear in the Anime. One of the sailors listed in the original Morrel crew is "Jacopo" (identifiable only by his signature on a picture, which is a bit obscured but definitely there), who was the Count's first 'helper' in the novel. Gankutsuou seems to take on the role that Abbe Faria had in the novel, and even appears with a cross around his neck - although that comparison is arguable, considering what Gankutsuou is. Abbe Busoni makes a appearance as well, although seemingly as Luigi Vampa's alias, rather than one of the Count's many alter-egos. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits: The Opening Song has a somber mood that is fitting to the tone of the series, but the art style is dramatically different — and worrisome to first-time viewers, who might fear that the entire episode has been animated in that style. | |
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Melodrama | |
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Melodrama: Of the Highest Order. Tropes Are Not Bad. | |
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Artsy Moon | |
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Artsy Moon: Justified by the fact that it is colonized, thus having its surface altered, the moon sports a creepy skull-like face. | |
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Word of God | |
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According to Word of God, one of the reasons Albert was chosen as the viewpoint character instead of the Count was to put the focus on the consequences of revenge rather than the satisfaction of it, as the creators worried about glorifying revenge. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Let's face it: Franz is a lot brighter than Albert is. | |
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Opaque Lenses | |
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Bertuccio wears a pair. They're Opaque Lenses most of the time, but become translucent when he has moments of humanity. (And on one memorable occasion, when he's struggling with his conscience, one lens becomes translucent while the other remains opaque.) | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: The Count. Lampshaded in an episode in which he plays chess against an AI and wins, and also proclaims to a desperate Haydée that he will "throw away the useless pieces that stand in the way of revenge." | |
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Good Eyes, Evil Eyes | |
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Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: The most purely good characters like Albert and most of his friends have wide eyes; more anti-heroic characters like Beauchamp and Debray have narrower eyes, as do the Count and his enemies. Andrea, being a real psycho has slitted pupils like a snake in fact, he looks a real lot like his half-sister, Eugénie; it's the eyes that are the real noticeable difference in their features. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: To preserve his status as exotic the Count's henchman Ali is changed from a black African to a green space alien. | |
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UnusuallyUninterestingSight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The count is blue and has fangs but almost no one seems to notice/comment on it. One of the only times it's acknowledged is in a From the Mouths of Babes moment from Edouard Villefort. Some of the aliens in the background in this show are pink and have heart-shaped heads, while Haydée has blue skin and pointy ears, but no fangs. The weird thing about the Count is really just that he's blue and human. | |
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Ojou Ringlets | |
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Ojou Ringlets: Andrea Cavalcanti, a rare example of a male with this hairstyle It's interesting to note that the hairstyle was originally meant for Eugénie (as seen in the official trailer and concept art) - it was transferred to Andrea in the very last moment, when the writers decided that Eugénie would be a positive character and love interest. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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Elaborate Underground Base: The Count has one, and it's a doozy. It even has its own indoor ocean. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: At first Haydée seems like only a loyal and docile follower of the Count. However, she later brings about Fernand's fall by exposing his sins; also Peppo, whose role seems to be over in episode two - until it turns out that she tagged along because she was a spy for the Count. Interview with the creators reveal that Peppo's role was supposed to be over in episode two, but the writers decided she was too good to waste on only two episodes. | |
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P.O.V. Sequel | |
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P.O.V. Sequel: The Count of Monte Cristo seen through Albert's eyes. According to Word of God, one of the reasons Albert was chosen as the viewpoint character instead of the Count was to put the focus on the consequences of revenge rather than the satisfaction of it, as the creators worried about glorifying revenge. | |
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TheMatchmaker | |
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The Matchmaker: Albert becomes this for Valentine and Maximilien, frequently acting as a mediator between them and attempting to coach Maximilien on how to win her over. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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It can be assumed that everybody speaks French, but is dubbed in Japanese for convenience. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: Some series are satisfied by a stylish opening, here we have 24 entire episodes of heavily stylized visuals. | |
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Mechanical Horse | |
Gankutsuou / int_e5c9dde9 | comment |
Mechanical Horses: Pulling a hovercraft carriage no less. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
Gankutsuou / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: Used by Dueling Noblemen of the Future — apparently simple swordfighting isn't flashy or dramatic enough anymore. | |
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Lost in Imitation | |
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Lost in Imitation: Averted: the anime manages to avoid the traps and clichés other adaptations of the novel fell victim to (Albert is not Edmond's son, Edmond doesn't get together with Mercedes in the end, Eugénie and Haydée are not written out of the story, Haydée is not married off to Franz, etc.). | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: For both the Count and Morcerf. The former fought off Gankutsuou so he could die as Edmond Dantes instead of the Count. The latter told Albert to always look to the future before taking his own life to face retribution for his own crimes. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
Gankutsuou / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: You'd think Albert would resent the Count at least a little after he tries to kill him in front of his dad, and this after manipulating him, killing his best friend, and causing the fall of his family. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
Gankutsuou / int_f788b2c5 | comment |
Love Makes You Evil: Morcerf. Fernand's Start of Darkness (I was tired of living that loser life) was being pushed over the edge due to his being on the losing end of the Love Triangle between him and his childhood best friends Mercedes and Edmond, which he attributed in large part to the fact that he was poor and struggling in his own profession while Dantes was rich and successful in his career. | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine | |
Gankutsuou / int_f9e4739d | comment |
I Do Not Drink Wine: In an indirect homage to the Trope Namer, the vampiric Count does not consume food or drink for sustenance. Rather, he takes medication, which is a direct homage to the original Count. | |
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Gainaxing | |
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Gainaxing: Haydée in her opera outfit, combined with Conspicuous CG. A rather odd case, especially in how exaggerated it is, considering that Haydée is relatively modestly endowed, and not intended as a sex symbol. | |
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Like That Show, But with Mecha | |
Gankutsuou / int_fb979ddd | comment |
Like That Show but with Mecha: Duels are fought not just with pistols or swords, but with six-foot long swords wielded by Humongous Mecha, as seen after Albert challenges the Count to a duel, and again in the showdown between the Count and Mondego. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Edmond really lost it. | |
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