

For the most part, _Gankutsuou_ is set in Paris in the year 5053.
Technological advancements shown in the series include:

  * Space travel and moon colonisation

  * Danglars' communication with Michelle, his assistant, over a wireless connection

  * Noirtier de Villefort's prosthetic arm

  * The pen inside Noirtier's arm, which auto-writes and which is used to access his memories

  * Lucien Debray's use of headsets to access government records through a VR application

  * The Count's pocketwatch, which is revealed to be a bugging device

With this taken into account, I was surprised to realise that the main
characters never seem to use cell phones or email, even in situations such as:

  * Albert's failed attempted to see Eugénie after her engagement to Andrea Cavalcanti

  * Eugénie's thwarted attempt to see Albert after the Morcerf scandal breaks out

  * Eugénie's failed attempts to contact Franz while he was in Marseilles (although it is also possible that Franz intentionally made himself unreachable)

Do cell phones and email exist in the world of _Gankutsuou_? If they do, why
do the characters not use them? Or are the technological advancements in
_Gankutsuou_ just constructed so that the original social structure of the
novel is not changed?


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Do cell phones and email exist in Gankutsuou?


_Gankutsuou_ 's is an adaptation of [_The Count of Monte
Cristo_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo) written by
Alexandre Dumas and published in 1844. This is shown by the series' full
English title: _Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo_.

The events of the original book take place in late 1830s France and as such
the characters did not have access to technologies such as the telephone which
would not be invented until the 1870s.

The futuristic setting of _Gankutsuou_ is an adaptational choice and is very
different setting to the original novel. This massive change in setting
creates [Adaptation-Induced Plot
Holes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationInducedPlotHole)
such as this.

So your final question would be correct: Advancements such as cell phones are
simply ignored in order for _Gankutsuou_ to properly follow the plot of the
original novel.


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