Line #28 YMMV/Gankutsuou


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The ending theme, especially with the given CGI effects.
2	** The Soundtrack as a whole counts with its blend of classical music, folk French music, and rock guitar. Among these, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG5ayLD3eBg "Kaishou"]] stands out, being a heavy and tragic track fit for the series most strongly emotional moments.
3	* BrokenBase: The animation of UnmovingPlaid being used on just about everything even has fans of the anime divided. One half maintains that it's a unique visual style that is impressive at best and harmless at worst, while the other half maintains that the style is far too psychedelic and distracts attention from anything else.
4	* CreepyAwesome: The Count of Monte Cristo.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Franz, likely due to his feelings for Albert and [[HyperCompetentSidekick level-headedness]]. Peppo also has a lot of fans proportionate to his screentime.
6	* EvilIsCool: The Count is insanely popular for this reason.
7	* HoYay: The relationships between Albert and Franz and between Albert and the Count are dripping with all sorts of subtext, even if nothing untoward ever takes place ([[spoiler:except for an almost-confession by Albert and later a very dramatic kiss in the end, though that was only on the cheek]]). And to a smaller extent, it ''looks'' like Andrea and the Count are going to end up with some sort of dramatic ho-yay, [[spoiler: but no. Though Andrea may have 'all kinds of talents' as advertised, he's much happier to go after his own sister. And mother.]]
8	** In fact, Creator/JojiNakata (the Count) said in an interview that he and Creator/JunFukuyama (Albert) played some of their scenes together as if they were love scenes.
9	** Franz talks about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything loving someone even if you can't marry them, while looking at Albert.]] It's canon by the end of the series. Franz loves Albert, but it was completely one-sided.
10	* MagnificentBastard: Once an innocent man sentenced unjustly, [[spoiler: Edmond Dantes returns as the ruthless, charming Count of Monte Cristo to destroy his enemies. Rescuing the son of his former best friend Fernand and his fiancee Mercedes, the young Albert Morcerf, it is later revealed the Count set up the kidnapping to begin with to gain Albert's trust. Manipulating his old enemies into trusting him with investments that ruin them, the Count also reveals he rescued a young alien girl named Haydee so she could expose Fernand as a traitor and the murderer of her father. Edmond also introduces one enemy, Villefort's, mentally unstable wife to poison so she will commit murders and further disgrace her husband while later having his ally, the bandit Andrea, reveal he is Villefort's illegitimate son to ruin him further. Finally, the Count plans to harden his own heart and kill Albert to destroy Fernand, not satisfied until he has given Fernand the same unending despair Fernand once gave him, before finally letting go of his hatred thanks to the love of Albert, ending his life with a final plea to remember that his name was Edmond Dantes. A charming sophisticated manipulator, none around him ever saw the Count coming until he struck.]]
11	* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably, [[spoiler: when the Count kills Franz by mistake while trying to kill Albert in a brutal and gory way in front of his mom. The fact that Albert and Franz are barely more than children doesn't help.]] Interestingly, this marks a significant difference with the novel, [[spoiler: where Mercedes not only knows about his plan to fight Albert in a duel, but begs him and eventually convinces him to spare her son]].
12	** Andrea [[spoiler:seducing and bedding his own mother, then threatening to rape his half sister, and finally poisoning his father.]]
13	*** At one point, he even implies that he's even going to [[spoiler:rape Haydée; however, the count steps in and nothing actually happens.]]
14	** And let's not let Héloïse Villefort off the hook here. She seems perfectly normal in her first few appearances, with a warm motherly appearance and pleasant smile. She is the stepmother of Valentine and is the second wife of the crown prosecutor Villefort. She is the biological mother of her young son Edward, from her first marriage. Valentine is to inherit all of the fortune, leaving her stepmother jealous because Edward doesn’t get a single penny. So when the Count seduces her and innocently introduces her to toxicology and gives her a deadly ring which releases a deadly poison Héloïse becomes murderous and tries to [[spoiler: poison Valentine and her husband, as well as inadvertently almost poisoning Albert and poisoned one of the servants of the Villefort household. And she does all this while maintaining her angelic motherly facade up till near the end of the series when her husband finds out what she's been doing and points out that she's nothing more than a murderous insane woman. She tries to deny his accusations before she breaks down and collapses to the ground, finally giving in to her insanity. Her husband then puts her in an insane asylum for the rest of her life. Plus the scene where she ''masturbated'' while thinking of the Count and the poison ring he gave her. In essence, she was also getting off to the thought of killing her stepdaughter and husband.]]
15	*** [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that she was poisonig Valentine long before Count entered the picture; her garden is full of poisonous flowers and Valentine is quite sickly even when she's introduced. She just didn't have the guts to go all the way. ]]
16	*** [[spoiler:I got the impression she was just trying to poison Valentine slowly because the sudden death of someone in their mid teens would certainly raise some suspicions. Eugenie's mother even mentions that there are rumors that Heloise is beating Valentine, so naturally this would only strengthen those suspicions.]]
17	** Jullian Danglars crossed it when everything does wrong, and he abandons his family to the public backlash to escape and make a new life for himself, confirming that he doesn't care about them, and all his actions, like marrying off his daughter, were all self serving.
18	* {{Narm}}: The opening song of the anime "We Were Lovers" is a beautiful moving piece. However, when the singer says the word 'love' (in the line "I just pray that you will love me and trust me") it becomes hilarious due to the way he stresses the L in love.
19	** He also hits the wrong note at one point
20	** ...More like a lot of points. The emotion that the singer puts into the song is great; but accurate notes would be nice too
21	** Aside from the song, the series occasionally goes overboard with dramatic situations and cliched lines, especially where the Count is concerned. An example is Albert's duel with Maximilien, which is heralded by Bertuccio blowing a conch and spiced up by the fact that there are sharks in the water below.
22	*** The duel is ''extremely'' narmtastic. Aside from the conch and sharks, there's Albert's outfit--a pirate costume with the words [[GratuitousEnglish ALBERT PIRATE]] as part of the jacket's UnmovingPlaid.
23	** In an otherwise heart wrenching scene, the count suddenly and unironically screams “BERTUCCIO, BRING ME MY SWORD OF ''VENGEANCE''!!”
24	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For those whose [[YourHeadAsplode minds don't explode]] from the show's art-style, the entire series can look like this. In-universe, several characters remark that the Count's little garden is this.
25	* {{Wangst}}: Franz (especially with his [[spoiler:death scene and the episode that came after it]]). He did suffer beautifully, though.
26	** Albert spends most of the story as a whiny brat, and eventually refuses to acknowledge the count's very legitimate grievances against his father, as if his own bruised ego is the only thing that matters. Luckily, he gets better.
27	* TheWoobie: Eugenie. Her entire life, she's been the daughter of the slimiest of the Count's targets. She's initially unhappy with her engagement to Albert, but even after they work out their feelings, Albert sees fit to spend more time with every other major character than her (though it is justified, as the plot needs to move). But then [[spoiler: her engagement with Albert is broken off and replaced with an engagement to Andrea/Benedetto. Not only does she have to endure his presence, he threatens to rape her, and [[MoreThanMindControl he stops her from resisting the marriage by threatening Albert]]. Meanwhile Albert's been completely unconcerned with her, flying around on spaceships with the Count. And while Albert does rescue her from her marriage to Andrea/Benedetto, he makes her leave to New York on a plane, not to see him again for another five years (willing as she might have been), and their reunion is implied.]] And the worst part about this is how [[IronWoobie well she takes it all]]. It's hard not to feel sympathy imagining what kind of feelings she's hiding.

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