It's interesting to note that a multi-episode anime adaptation from the 2000s--Shoujo Cosette--gave two characters the Spared by the Adaptation treatment...Gavroche and Javert! Javert didn't go through with the suicide in the end, and the implication was that, going forward, Valjean's example would be to him what the Bishop's was to Valjean. Not a bad idea IMO.
(Then again, how many adaptations prior to the musical--including another anime adaptation, Toei's from 1979--spared Valjean's life? Even after the musical, the 1998 Neeson/Rush adaptation did that.)
It's interesting to note that a multi-episode anime adaptation from the 2000s--Shoujo Cosette--gave two characters the Spared by the Adaptation treatment...Gavroche and Javert! Javert didn't go through with the suicide in the end, and the implication was that, going forward, Valjean's example would be to him what the Bishop's was to Valjean. Not a bad idea IMO.
(Then again, how many adaptations prior to the musical--including another anime adaptation, Toei's from 1979--spared Valjean's life? Even after the musical, the 1998 Neeson/Rush adaptation did that.)