For the most part, the Jarjayes image is consistent across the manga and anime.   The anime stages Jarjayes in the same events but with more sympathy towards the character.   Take for example the scene following Oscar's return from the meeting hall.   In both versions, Jarjayes is furious that Oscar has violated military orders and stopped the Palace Guards from charging into meeting hall.   Unable to forgive her betrayal of the Throne and her family, he decides to take care of her treason himself and end her life.   It is only with André's intervention that Oscar was saved from Jarjayes' sword.

Up to this point, the anime follows the manga closely.   What happens afterwards is particularly revealing of Jarjayes' personality differences across the versions.   In the manga, Jarjayes sighs and gives up the idea, mumbling that he does not want to see Granny dying in grief over André's death.   Then he tells Oscar to visit Antoinette and thank her personally for the pardon.   Here we discover that Jarjayes had known about Antoinette's pardon all along and still went ahead with his plan to kill Oscar.   In this sense, Jarjayes is angry with Oscar not so much because he fears for her life.   Rather, he is hurt that Oscar has betrayed his trust.   For the manga's Jarjayes, a daughter's disobedience deserves the same death sentence as treason.

In the anime, however, the tragedy is averted with a messenger's rushed announcement of Antoinette's pardon.   Jarjayes reacts to the news with relief and then chides Oscar for having done such a foolish thing despite Antoinette's faith in her.   With Antoinette's pardon, Jarjayes no longer feels the need to protect Oscar and his family from death or exile.   And with it goes the thought of giving Oscar an honorable death.

The Jarjayes in the manga, then, is a man who is fiercely loyal to the Throne and values his duties highly -- someone very much like Oscar herself before her gradual awakening to the flaws within the system.   But unlike Oscar, he is unable to adapt to the changing times and cannot understand the ideological stance behind Oscar's actions.   For this reason, he views Oscar's opposition more as a personal affront than a political rebellion, and deals with it accordingly.   In contrast, the anime depicts a man who places his daughter's interests above his personal honor.   The anime's Jarjayes will not knowingly harm his daughter based on personal disagreements, regardless of his own feelings about the matter, unless he feels what Oscar has done is endangering herself.

From this perspective, Jarjayes is perhaps seen as more paternal in the anime than manga.   Certainly the anime shows more dramatic confrontations between Jarjayes and Oscar.   The struggle to get Oscar to wear the Palace Guard uniform is just one of the many that comes to mind.   Yet I do not think the Jarjayes in the manga is any less loving of Oscar than his anime counterpart.   While it is true that he appears stricter and says relatively little to Oscar, the manga hints at his love in subtle ways.   In the manga, it is Jarjayes who asks André to join the French Guards and, after he learns of André's love for Oscar, to watch over Oscar like her shadow (André does not seek out the French Guards, as in the anime).

Another interesting scene shows Mme. Jarjayes telling Oscar the reason for Jarjayes' marriage plans for Oscar, which the anime replaces with Jarjayes' direct speech to Oscar.   Here, the manga explains that Jarjayes fears losing his daughter to the incoming battle against the revolutionaries and wants to find her a safe harbor before the battle starts.   The anime shows a sobbing Jarjayes who apologizes to Oscar for raising her as a man and depriving her of a woman's happiness.

In this way, it is more fair to say that the Jarjayes in the manga is a loving father who tries to help his daughter through his own subtle, at times foolish, ways.   Like Oscar, Jarjayes grapples with the political chaos around him but comes to a different conclusion and, sadly, loses one of his important things in the process.   This progression of father-daughter relationship is less clear, and perhaps over-simplified, in the anime. Nevertheless, the anime offers a fresh look at a warmer Jarjayes.