21st Century Digital Boy

I’ve been watching Gankutsuou for a while now after running into it completely by accident - I saw someone on a forum use screenshots from it as their signature, thought it looked interesting, read up on it and grabbed it.Jesus Christ, this series is utterly, utterly awesome. The art style looks odd at first, with the flat-colored areas cartoons usually have being filled up with textures, but together with the gorgeous backgrounds creates a really, really great atmosphere. The kickass soundtrack adds even more to it, and with the well-wrought plot and good characters creates one of the best series I’ve ever seen. Utterly, utterly glorious.

The plot is supposedly based on Alexandre Dumas’ Le Comte de Monte Cristo, but not having read it, I can’t confirm how much or little of it is taken in. The namesake character in the series is, from what I can see and from the bits and pieces of the book I’ve read, probably the strongest connection the series has with the original, but I can’t say how strong.

Either way, excuse me as I go back to watch more of it.

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