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Manga Classics: Les Miserables
by Crystal S. Chan, Victor Hugo
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. It has been published in September 2021.
"Manga Classics: Les Miserables" was a bit underwhelming.
I love the original, and I thought this manga quite banalized the story for the sake of simplicity. While I do realize an adaptation is bound to leave bits and pieces out, especially when drawing from such a ponderous masterpiece, I really didn't appreciate how this manga made it all about Cosette and Marius' love story: it reads almost like a soap opera, for goodness' sake!
The social and political parts were reduced to mere background setting; the character of Javert, who is so complex in the original, came out as flat as any one-dimensional villain in this version.
Kudos to the storyboarder and the artist for trying to introduce a larger part of the public to "Les Misérables", but it could have been done better.
"Manga Classics: Les Miserables" was a bit underwhelming.
I love the original, and I thought this manga quite banalized the story for the sake of simplicity. While I do realize an adaptation is bound to leave bits and pieces out, especially when drawing from such a ponderous masterpiece, I really didn't appreciate how this manga made it all about Cosette and Marius' love story: it reads almost like a soap opera, for goodness' sake!
The social and political parts were reduced to mere background setting; the character of Javert, who is so complex in the original, came out as flat as any one-dimensional villain in this version.
Kudos to the storyboarder and the artist for trying to introduce a larger part of the public to "Les Misérables", but it could have been done better.