Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette
| Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette | |
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Title card | |
| レ・ミゼラブル 少女コゼット | |
| Genre | Drama, historical fiction |
| Based on | Les Misérables by Victor Hugo |
| Written by | Tomoko Konparu |
| Directed by | Hiroaki Sakurai |
| Music by | Hayato Matsuo |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Kōichi Motohashi |
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| Production companies | Fuji Television Nippon Animation |
| Original release | |
| Network | BS Fuji |
| Release | January 7 – December 30, 2007 |
Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette (レ・ミゼラブル 少女コゼット, Re Mizeraburu Shōjo Kozetto; lit. "Les Misérables: Little Girl Cosette") is a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, and the first installment in the World Masterpiece Theater series in ten years after Remi, Nobody's Girl. It is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic 1862 novel Les Misérables, and the fourth anime adaptation of said novel (following two adaptations from the Japanese television program Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi, and a 1979 TV film special produced by Toei Animation).
It premiered across Japan on January 7, 2007, on Fuji TV's BS Fuji broadcast satellite network, and contains twenty-six episodes each season, for a total of fifty-two episodes. It also aired in Japan on Animax beginning in April 2007.