Review of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

The original story was a masterpiece yet dated and dull at some aspects. When a story is around for 2 centuries and numerous movies and TV series and cartoons are made based on that, it becomes familiar and somehow boring. What happened here was that they used the old characters but took the classic story to entirely different level so the combination of familiarity with characters and the story shell but alternate time, events and ending, made this show so exciting that I literally watched it in 2 days... a rare thing with an anime! Nevertheless, it could be better. The opening and end credits and music was insanely lame. I didn't like the faith of Danglar and Mondego, I wanted them to have worse and also I think they had to end it at episode 23. The whole episode 24 was 24 minutes of pure waste of time. Another problem was the Japanese feel of the characters. I know it's Japanese made and its anime cliché but somehow they felt so Japanese while they were supposed to be french. Overall it was a brilliant anime, my second favorite after Robotech. 7/10 and highly recommended.