In the manga, art student and antique shop worker Eiri Kurahashi starts to have dreams and visions about a young girl. He begins to obsess over her, eventually stumbling upon an unfinished painting of her in the back of his shop. He sees a small word on the top, "Cossette," and assumes it is the strange girl's name. When he learns that the portrait was sold, and about the legend behind it that anyone who owns it dies a strange death, he sees the apparition of the girl, Cossette. He finds the portrait, and stops its current owner from committing suicide. Cossette is trapped within eternity, unable to pass on into nothingness or the afterlife, and has been suffering for over two hundred years. Eiri begins to fall in love with her, and wants to help her find peace at last.In order to do so, he must gather her old belongings back together, all of which bear some sort of curse or dark legend about them.
The manga plot can therefore be summarized as a dark and disturbing exploration of the obsessive side of infatuation, sexual desire and love.
Anime (OVA)
It is about art student Eiri Kurahashi, who works in an antique shop. One day, he sees the image of a girl in an antique glass. To his shock, she appears to be moving and living out her life before his eyes. He becomes infatuated with the girl, and one night at midnight, somehow makes contact with her. He learns her name is Cossette, and that she was an aristocrat's daughter during the 18th century.
She reveals to him that her spirit has been entrapped within the glass by her murder, which was perpetrated by her betrothed, the artist Marcelo Orlando. To set her free, she tells Eiri, a man must be willing to take upon himself punishment for the sins Marcelo committed.
As the series progresses, Eiri is tortured mentally and physically by Cossette, who demands that he prove his professed love for her. It is revealed that Eiri is the reincarnation of Marcelo, and that Cossette is becoming as infatuated with him as he is with her. Also depicted are the efforts of the women in Eiri's life - relatives, friends and mentors, and the obligatory girl-next-door love interest - to free him from what is becoming increasingly obvious to them as a self-destructive path.
Characters
- Cossette d'Auvergne (コゼット・ドーヴェルニュ Kosetto Dōverunyu)
- Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)
- Cossette is a beautiful young girl whose spirit haunts a delicate Venetian glass. With delicate eyes, long blond hair and a lithe frame, her beauty is both haunting and enchanting.
- Eiri Kurahashi (倉橋 永莉 Kurahashi Eiri)
- Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
- Eiri, a talented budding artist, works in his family's quaint antique shop. His young world is transformed after he stumbles upon a delicate Venetian glass harboring an enchanting saga. The glass is but a portal into the tragic world of a young girl named Cossette. He falls in love with this illusion that is as beautiful as she is cursed.
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