![]() ![]() Andrea appears and reveals himself as the illegitimate son of Villefort and Victoria, then poisons Villefort as revenge for his abandonment. ![]() Villefort attacks the Count and is put on trial. The Count then arranges for Héloïse to poison herself, driving her insane. Valentine is saved and removed to Marseilles by her soldier lover Maximilien Morrel with Franz's help. With Villefort, the Count first arranges for Héloïse to poison Valentine, of whom she is jealous. Albert helps Eugénie escape Paris, with the two admitting their love for each other. This event is compounded by the exposing of Andrea as a fraud and murderer, having been set up by the Count as royalty as part of his revenge. With Danglars, the Count manipulates events to ruin him, then later confronts him when he tries to escape his creditors after revealing his identity, the Count leaves Danglars adrift in space. The Count's revenge against his enemies spans multiple fronts. With the aid of a demonic being called Gankutsuou that was lurking in the d'If, Edmund escaped and refashioned himself as the Count, committing himself to revenge against those who wronged him and orchestrating Albert's kidnapping to ingratiate himself with Parisian society. Edmund is then imprisoned in the Château d'If by Villefort, who sought to protect himself due to being part of an associated political conspiracy. Twenty years before, he was falsely implicated in a murder by his assumed friends Danglars and Fernand-Danglars due to his hatred of Edmund's honesty, and Fernand to win Mercedes's hand. Albert later meets the Count's alien princess companion Haydée and the Marquis Andrea Cavalcanti, a flamboyant nobleman who quickly replaces Albert as Eugénie's fiancee through the Count's influence.ĭuring the course of the story, the Count is revealed to be Edmund Dantes, a former sailor and Mercedes's first love. This includes Albert's father General Fernand de Morcerf and his wife Mercedes the powerful banker Baron Jullian Danglars, his wife Victoria, and their daughter and Albert's betrothed Eugénie and the Crown Prosecutor of Paris Gérard de Villefort, his current wife Héloïse, and his first wife's daughter Valentine. After the Count helps Franz save Albert from a gang of kidnappers, Albert introduces the Count into the high society of Paris. During a visit to the Moon-based city of Lune with his childhood friend Baron Franz d'Epinay, Viscount Albert de Morcerf meets a mysterious self-made nobleman called the Count of Monte Cristo. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is set in the year 5053 the two major powers are the planet Earth and the alien-dominated Eastern Empire, who have been at war for an undetermined time. Main article: List of Gankutsuou episodes While the series adapts much of the original storyline and carries over its theme of revenge, the plot and characters feature multiple differences. The series is mainly told from the perspective of Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the teenage son of one of the Count's enemies. Aided by a mysterious force called Gankutsuou, Dantes escaped prison and refashioned himself as the Count, determined to exact vengeance on those who wronged him. Set in the year 5053, the series focuses on the impact of the titular Count: formerly a sailor named Edmund Dantes, he was betrayed by his former friends and imprisoned on false murder charges. The series was praised by critics and received many accolades. The series was adapted into a CD drama, a trilogy of novels by screenwriter Shuichi Kouyama, and a manga written and drawn by series creator Mahiro Maeda which ran from 2005 to 2008. An adaptation of the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the 24-episode series aired on Japanese television between October 2004 and March 2005 it was licensed for a Western release first by Geneon Entertainment and later by Funimation. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is a Japanese anime television series produced by Gonzo. ![]()
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