primeideal

It's been a long time since I've read the brick so some of the stuff I comment on might be direct from there, fair warning.

There are parallels with Javert's treatment of Fantine ("she's the prostitute, she's insulted a citizen, we need to arrest her") and of himself in the "punish me, Monsieur le Maire" scene--in both cases, to the extent that Valjean is the "wounded" party, he should be able to forgive or not press charges. I can understand Javert wanting to be as harsh on himself as he is on others in the second case, but shouldn't that specific parallel have come to mind in terms of Valjean being able to say "no, just drop it?"
When Javert is "narrating" the Champmathieu stuff that happened offscreen-to-him, all the characters are just completely dark silhouettes. Nice contrast of story-within-a-story as well as the darkness/confusion/mistaken identity that's happening from Champmathieu's POV.
Valjean leaving the courtroom at Arras: "The doors slowly opened for him...and then closed behind him as if on their own. After all, when a person does something sublime...there will always be someone in the crowd...who steps forth to serve them." Compare Cassie and Aftran getting help with doors :D
Valjean's dramatic hair color change post-Arras is definitely a manga protagonist moment.
Simplice gets an expanded dialogue with Valjean talking about how the town will miss him. "Money can't buy sunlight" awwww.
Little Cosette is singing the "cornflowers are blue" lullaby to herself that Fantine sang when she was dying (and Cosette can't have heard it for five years, awwww.)
I think of "Master of the House" as played up for the comedy of the musical version, but actually "ten percent for looking in the mirror twice" isn't that far off from the brick, and the adaptation includes that part too! Here's the original (Hapgood translation): “The duty of the inn-keeper,” he said to her one day, violently, and in a low voice, “is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the chimney-corner, the armchair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even for the flies which his dog eats!”
Gavroche is there, mentioned by name! (In the Montfermeil chapters.) Avoids some of the weirdness of the digressions.
Thénardier's animal motif is the snake (where Valjean's is the lion).
Valjean teaching little Cosette the alphabet, "A is for amour," awwww.
This gets abridged slightly but it's still pretty faithful, and very amusing: "It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: “Yesterday, an aged grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!”"
Fauchelevent's reaction to seeing Valjean is "you saved my life, of course I remember you, to you it was nothing because you save people's lives all the time and I'm no one special." Then a few pages later we get something similar with Georges Pontmercy and Thénardier--to Georges, it's a life-debt, but to Thénardier, it was nothing (because it actually was nothing).
Nice art for the mirrors and fancy decorations in the royal salons. And Marius researching Georges' military career gets surrounded by books, the law school nerd :)