Holy mackerel... Options

[Shirotatsu]

...well, if I've ever seen an odd anime, Serial Experiments Lain has to be it...



...that or Le Portrait de Petit Cossette (which I've just deleted from my computer...I think I'll be more satisfied in its soundtrack than the episodes themselves...)...I probably won't do a good job summarizing it because of how I watched it in parts and it's so confusing...



Alright, this little anime of three episodes (OAV's a more accurate term...) is about a teenager, Eiri Kurahashi, who works in an antique shop. One day, he finds a glass that has a strange rainbow cloud in it as well as a portrait of a beautiful girl named Cossette D'Auvergne.



Cossette lived in France 250 years ago, whose beauty was captured in painting by her fiance, Marchello. Eventually, the D'Auvergne family was collectively murdered, and Cossette killed by Marchello, her love, himself.



Eiri, bearing the reincarnated soul of Marchello, is attracted to Cossette's beauty (represented through Marchello's rather harsh painting style) and he falls in love with her. His obsession with her leads him to paint her portrait, and strangely enough, in Marchello's own style, even "copying" his own signature, with the note to Cossette.



Cossette, who believes that Eiri's fate is the same as Marchello's fate as a sinner and murderer, seeks to cleanse Eiri of the "vessels" that want to destroy him...but she wants him also to atone for his sins. (which doesn't make any sense to me).



...and crazy stuff happens...



...if you're really curious, go ahead and check it out. The torrent should be about 961 MB, and should take two or three days to finish, if not faster. Just be warned...it's really...really strange...gothic, I could say...blah...

D'o? me vient, ? mon Dieu ! cette paix qui m'inonde ?

A moi qui cherchais le bien, le vrai, dans les r?ves des sages,

Et la paix dans des c?urs retentissants d'orages.

A peine sur mon front quelques jours ont gliss?,

Il me semble qu'un si?cle et qu'un monde ont pass?;

Et que, s?par? d'eux par un ab?me immense,

Un nouvel homme en moi rena?t et recommence.

Edited by: Shirotatsu at: 10/3/05 11:53 pm