My own childhood. I have broken it.

[firstlight]

I was re-reading The Three Musketeers over the weekend.

So you remember how there's this ever so hotheaded young man, right, who goes to the city to seek his fortune, right, and ends up completely on the wrong side of these three musketeers who also happen to be a very close-knit group and then stuff happens and they almost all try to kill him but they kind of end up adopting him a little bit instead and...

And...

And...

Ohshit. (Either you know where this one is going or you're not into the right/wrong things.)


(This prompted looking up of The Three Musketeers on wikipedia, where I learned that there is an anime. I quote: 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. And 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. Wow. I can't decide if this knowledge needs to be scrubbed from my mind, or if I need to see the damn thing out of a sense of morbid curiosity. Either way, can I have a vast supply of alcohol to help me, please?

I also remembered the existance of the two animated series which I have seen, both of which traumatised me rather -- Albert the Fifth Musketeer, which was traumatic in a fairly basic sort of way, and Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, which was a bizarre Spanish/Japanese production and which still breaks my brain to even think about. Who sat down and came up with that one, seriously?)

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[annotated_em]

So you remember how there's this ever so hotheaded young man, right, who goes to the city to seek his fortune, right, and ends up completely on the wrong side of these three musketeers who also happen to be a very close-knit group and then stuff happens and they almost all try to kill him but they kind of end up adopting him a little bit instead and...

And...

And...

Ohshit. (Either you know where this one is going or you're not into the right/wrong things.)

WANT. WANT NOW, PLS.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

BUT. BUT. TOO MANY OTHER THINGS. ;;

[jetsam]

I remember Albert. I haven't thought about it for years, but that was my first exposure to crack ^_^

*makes a note to avoid the anime*

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I think the pressing question about the anime in my mind right now is, "In addition, it added a romantic angle within the series"???? WHAT? WITH WHO? ...hasty and slightly bemused research has uncovered the comment that "Mostly he [Athos] and Aramis understand without words and I remember that I always loved watching them together (and I´m not alone ^^)." ...ohgod. There also seems to be a quantity of fanart. XD; I'm going to... stop now, before the damage to my brain becomes irreversible.

[semishade@livejournal (from livejournal.com)]

D'Artagnan is Kirihara?

Keigo as Milady King Louis

...and before all of those, was the Hanna Barbera cartoon which was shown during the Banana Splits (and helped form my personal imaginative universe forever, along with The Flashing Blade and Angelique novels).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2T4ILlzn6Cw

I'm not quite sure when my preference for the older D'Artagnan of the later Dumas novels kicked in.

[morbid-bunni.livejournal.com]

I invade your comment thread to be glad you pointed out the Hannah Barbera version, because crap if I could remember why I had badly!animated!70s versions of Porthos, Athos, and Aramos running around my head at the very MENTION of this.

Banana Splits was good stuff. :D

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

You mean Keigo doesn't want to be Milady? How sad...

*watches with a strange sort of fascination* XD

[semishade@livejournal (from livejournal.com)]

He's asserting his manliness. We all know he'd be divine in the role.

[grimmjow-jagger.livejournal.com]

Jump's manga "Belmonde le VisiteuR" also has D'Artagnan and the three Musketeers in it, but... I guess it might also be a traumatizing experience?

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Who knows. Is Athos a woman? Are they all horses? THESE ARE PROBABLY THE ONLY WAYS IN WHICH I COULD BE MORE SCARED THAN FEMALE!ARAMIS AND... yeah. XD;;;;

[grimmjow-jagger.livejournal.com]

Nah, Athos just tries to kill himself. But D'Artagnan steals the main character's eyeball in order to perform witchcraft and kill the King.

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

C'mon, Dogtanian was awesome! Well, except for Dogtanian himself, he was pretty annoying, but who didn't have a bizarre doggy crush on Aramis?!

...OK, let's forget I said the last part *forks self* But I maintain it's a happy introduction to the classics, haha. (Dave also once sent me a lengthy text message quoting something from the original work about a handkerchief and meeting someone behind a cathedral in the middle of the night... Now *that*'s the best kind of childhood breakage! :D)

Also, I didn't know Dogtanian had anything to do with Japan. Though it turns out several of my favourite childhood cartoons actually did, lol. MmmMoomins! XD

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

DOGTANIAN WAS SO ANNOYING. The character definitely. Not sure about the rest. But I admit I didn't watch it particularly, it was just one of those things I saw around. ^^;

*laughs*

Yeah, apparently it was a Spanish series but a Japanese studio had something to do with it also.......

[kittyheaven.livejournal.com]

May I direct your attention to a previous Minami ^_^
http://www.anime-europe.org/photo/showphoto.php/photo/2835/size/big/limit/views

I loved reading the actual book, it made me laugh. I seem to recall a bit about being sure to beat your slave regularly to keep them happy...or something like that :)

[crystalusagi.livejournal.com]

XD my brain is broken

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Then my work is done.

[acantabloom.livejournal.com]

So, I'm kind of glad now that I never saw any of those animated series.
I loved the Three Musketeers so much as a kid (still do), although I didn't quite realized how much crack it was.
Then, recently I realized that:
Sanzo=Athos
Goku=D'artagnan
Hakkai=Aramis
Gojyo=Porthos

And I actually do have a Saiyuki 3 Musketeers inspired AU in the works.

Then, I realized that Athos/D'Artagnan would be kinda hot, and if that doesn't send my childhood up in flames, I don't know what will...

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

They were v. special in their own particular brain-breaking ways.

Oh my god, really? XDDD ...well. I've just discovered that there is or has been a fandom for the Japanese anime of three musketeers which involves LOTS AND LOTS OF ATHOS/ARAMIS. My mind. XD;

[arsenicgraffiti.livejournal.com]

I remember watching the anime version of the Three Musketeers. xD Aramis was pretty. (Of course, all mostly remember of the series is the bathtub scene where he's revealed as a she.)