Ikoku Meiro no Croisée - Recommendations

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1979

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1980

Eight-year-old Remi lives in a quiet village with his mother. His father, Jerome Barbarin, lives in Paris and provides the family with money to stay afloat; but soon they receive word that Jerome has been in a terrible accident and cannot support them further. After struggling through a tough winter, Remi and his mother are soon elated to see that their father has returned home - but he is not the man that he used to be. Cold and distant, Jerome soon secretly sells Remi to a traveling entertainer; and thus Remi's hardships begin. Moving from place to place, Remi experiences tragedy on a large scale. Friends come, go, and die; newfound families are torn apart; and otherwise Remi is abused, abandoned, and mistreated. Can Remi ever find his place in the world?

• TV (51 eps)
• 1977 - 1978

Eight-year-old Remi lives in a quiet village with his mother. His father, Jerome Barbarin, lives in Paris and provides the family with money to stay afloat; but soon they receive word that Jerome has been in a terrible accident and cannot support them further. After struggling through a tough winter, Remi and his mother are soon elated to see that their father has returned home - but he is not the man that he used to be. Cold and distant, Jerome soon secretly sells Remi to a traveling entertainer; and thus Remi's hardships begin. Moving from place to place, Remi experiences tragedy on a large scale. Friends come, go, and die; newfound families are torn apart; and otherwise Remi is abused, abandoned, and mistreated. Can Remi ever find his place in the world?

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2011

• TV (52 eps)
• 2007

Fantine and her daughter Cosette left Paris looking for a new start, but finding a job as a single mother proves impossible in 19th century France. Taking up the offer of an innkeeper couple, Fantine leaves Cosette in the care of the Thenardiers while she moves on to find work. Once Fantine is gone, however, the Thenardiers show their true colors, working Cosette mercilessly while pocketing the money Fantine sends for her support. Years pass and Cosette and Fantine dream of the time when they will be together again, but it seems the years only bring more hardships to both. What will become of little Cosette?

• Web (1 ep)
• 2018

A special animation to promote the 40th Anniversary Exhibition of French painer Charles-François Daubigny at the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum.

• TV (52 eps)
• 1987 - 1989

D'Artagnan leaves his grandparents' home in Gascogne to try to be a musketeer but once he arrives in Paris, he realizes it's going to be harder than he had anticipated. So, he goes on an adventure trying to retrieve a precious necklace to the Queen, as well as prove himself worthy of being a musketeer.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2003

The year is 1926, and Ichiro Ogami has traveled from Japan to Paris to train the new, all-female team known as the Paris Assault Force. At Les Chattes Noires, a nightclub and secret base of the team, cheerful Erika Fontaine is the team's first member; she has strong spiritual powers but is clumsy and in need of other partners. Soon after, four more girls with spiritual powers join Erika, and together they pilot steam-powered mechanical suits to protect Paris from monsters. Can a nun, a thief, a noble, a circus performer and a girl in mourning pull together as a team and defeat any foes that challenge their precious city?

• TV (13 eps)
• 1979

The Main character is a 15 year old Isabelle Laustin, other characters being her parents Leon and Marie, Isabelle`s friends Jean and his sister Marie, and Isabelle`s suitor, Captain Victor. When Paris is beseiged and Napoleon III`s army is defeated, Isabelle escapes to London, disguised as a boy, and engages in secret agent stuff.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1980