The Three Musketeers (anime)

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Three Musketeers


caption = DVD cover
ja_name = アニメ三銃士
ja_name_trans = Anime Sanjushi
genre = Adventure, Historical, RomanceInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Kunihiko Yuyama
studio = Gakken, KORAD
network = flagicon|Japan NHK
flagicon|France La Cinq
flagicon|Canada Radio-Canada
flagicon|Italy Italia 1
flagicon|Greece ERT3
first = October 9 1987
last = February 17 1989
episodes = 52

nihongo|"Three Musketeers"|アニメ三銃士|Anime Sanjushi is an anime television series adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Three Musketeers" and subsequent D'Artagnan romances. The series consisted of 52 half-hour episodes.

Plot Summary

D'Artagnan leaves his hometown of Gascogne for Paris in order to join the King's Musketeers or the Guards of the Cardinal. At his arrival, he went into an argument with Athos, Porthos and Aramis and provokes them into a duel. At the time of the duel, they were interrupted by the Guards of the Cardinal who are enforcing the King's decree banning duels. Afterwards, D'Artagnan and company became friends and adopted the motto, "all for one, and one for all".

Cast

*D'Artagnan: Tatsuya Matsuda
*Constance: Noriko Hidaka
*Jean: Mayumi Tanaka
*Athos: Akira Kamiya
*Aramis: Eiko Yamada
*Porthos: Masamichi Satō
*Louis XIII: Hideyuki Tanaka
*Queen Anne: Mari Okamoto
*Richelieu: Nobuo Tanaka
*Tréville: Tesshō Genda
*Rochefort: Shigeru Chiba
*Jacques: Tomomichi Nishimura
*Milady: Fumi Hirano
*Coby: Naoki Tatsuta
*Narration: Toshiko Sawada

Differences between Anime and Novels

* In the anime, Aramis is a woman who cross-dressed into a man in order to become a musketeer. Aramis' love of the arts in the original novel influenced the producers into changing the character's gender. In addition, it added a romantic angle within the series.
* The Iron mask story arc started only after a few months of the preceding part, while in the novel it was set more than 20 years apart, in The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
*The series' depiction of the Man in the Iron Mask is rather original, as the character appears in the form of a Doctor Doom-like villain.
* Constance is not the wife of Bonacieux in this version, but his daughter in order to facilitate the romantic relationship between Constance and d'Artagnan as envisioned by the producers.
*D'Artagnan is much younger in the anime than the novel, he was 15 years old at the beginning of the series.
*A new character replaced Planchet in other versions of the novel: Jean, a nine year old boy who is looking for his missing mother accused of helping a Protestant.

Trivia

*In France, the series was known as "Sous le signe des Mousquetaires" (Under the sign of the Musketeers), as the anime's many liberties with the novel made it an unlikely adaptation of Dumas' work.

External links

* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1112 Three Musketeers] at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
*"The [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three_Musketeers_%28anime%29&oldid=113670587 March 8, 2007 version of this article] uses translated material from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia articles, retrieved on the same day."
* [http://www.geocities.com/sanjuushi/ A website about the series]