Talk:Le Portrait de Petit Cossette

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Eiri Kurahashi is a college aged guy working at a family-owned antique shop. Generally speaking, Eiri's life has been rather uneventful; what with playing coy with his friends' constant joking about his love life, his projects at art school, and his working at an antique shop. This life of mundaneness is destroyed however, when Eiri discovers something interesting in a crate of objects from Europe inside it is a Venetian drinking glass sent to him and the shop from an uncle overseas. But Eiri's life undertakes a sudden change when he becomes fascinated with the glass… well, not necessarily with the glass, but with what he sees in the glass.

Inside the Venetian glass, Eiri sees a pretty young girl, blonde and chaste, going about what appears to be her daily life. Eiri isn't sure what he sees at first, and begins to suspect that his eyes are playing tricks on him… but he continues to look into the glass. The little girl's life plays out like a documentary film; he can see her reading a book, sleeping as gentle as a lamb, picking flowers from the garden, and other things accustomed to an 18th Century child's daily life. This is where the anime Le Portrait de Petite Cossette begins; you have an artist, Eiri, drawn into the world of what appears to be an illusion. But as Eiri suspects, the presence of Cossette, the girl in the glass, is no illusion

As the story continues, weeks pass by, and Eiri's affection and concern for this little girl he can see in the glass rises dramatically. He's beginning to fall in love with her. There are other women in his life, but Eiri pays them no attention, and wakes up every day so that he can watch, with anticipation, this mysterious vision in the glass continue. Eiri is the only one that can see Cossette. He is the only one capable of interacting with her, so now, it is up to Eiri to figure out why her soul is trapped in the glass, and as a result, it is up to Eiri to figure out why he is the only one capable of interacting with Cossette as well.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "This isn't very creepy." But when you throw into the equation the fact that Eiri very soon isn't just watching Cossette in the glass, but rather, he is actually pulled into the existence within the glass. We then find that Eiri is no longer a spectator.

Le Portrait de Petite Cossette is an anime whose character Cossette d'Auvergne is attired in the Gothic-Lolita style, and as the story goes, her soul has been trapped inside the glass for 250 years (and for some rather ill-fated reasons). Her attractiveness is at once magnificent and brilliant, while still dramatically somber and purely elegiac, likewise, Cossette possesses cuteness and a sadness in her hollow eyes that is bewildering and frightening at the same time. (It has been speculated that her character design was based on Cosette from the novel Les Miserables) Her personality is deceiving; she appears to hold that withdrawn naïveté that wealthy children of the 1700s held, but in all truthfulness, Cossette's demeanor is cold, pitiless, unfeeling, heartless even. Contrast this with Eiri's carefree collegiate existance, and suddenly, things are shaken up. Because Eiri is very much so a whatever-happens-happens kind of guy, when his mind gives way to these delusions so-called he begins to question his fate as a lover of art.

Cossette's soul has been alone in the Venetian glass for hundreds of years, and although she is reluctant to state just how she got to be so alone to Eiri, one thing is clear: She wants Eiri to help her bear the pain and sorrow of her aloneness, all of the pain and sorrow. This is the most important facet to the story--the story of a boy falling in love with a forsaken girl, because little by little, as it continues, Eiri discovers the reasons and rationale of Cossette's emotional and psychological imprisonment, and his almost implausible connection with such hardships and what occurs when forsaken souls of centuries old return with a vengeance.

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I just added a complete summary of the manga, but haven't seen the anime, or I would have added that too. The two have enough differences to account for two articles. Enjoy! SoulReaverDan 14:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)Dan

Citations needed for the plot?
The "Plot" section has three [Citation needed] tags, which is uncalled for since the "source" is the story/work itself! If anybody feels the need to keep it that way, make yourself know because I'll be removing them in a week or so. • H☼&omega;d&Theta;esI&dagger;fl&notin;&isin;   {KLAT}  • 03:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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