Kenshin Kenshin Kenshin!!!!

[dangermousie]

I have just started on the Rurouni Kenshin movie and I adore it to bits! I used to be obsessed with the anime years ago and it's bringing all the memories back. More importantly, the actors just feel right as the characters!

Kenshin (during the Bakumatsu):

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[muramatsu_aoi]

I WANT this so bad- it's not even funny. Saitoh looks awesomely good!! Wanted to confirm- there is no Aoshi? right? T_T

[meganbmoore]

The movie takes most of the stuff from the first 7-8 volumes of the manga (I think roughly that period...I haven't read it in a while) and pretty successfully reworks it into a single plotline, plus some bits about Kenshin's past that don't come up until later. they could have used Aoshi, but I suspect they didn't so there wouldn't be that hanging plotline in case there wasn't a sequel. (I think it performed pretty well, but don't know about the possibilities of a sequel. If there is, I imagine it would be all the Aoshi-and-related stuff.)

[muramatsu_aoi]

Thank you Megan! Got a bit confused as to how Megumi makes an appearance without Aoshi cropping up. Guess they have changed the plot a bit. If there is a sequel, I imagine it'd be awkward inserting him, when he wasn't with the Oniwaban in the first place..

[meganbmoore]

They don't really have the Oniwaban so much as...vaguely Oniwaban-like characters. i imagine that the sequel can have Saitou getting Kenshin to help him with something that leads him to Aoshi and co., and then segues into the familiar plot.

[muramatsu_aoi]

makes sense! thank you again!

[dangermousie]

No Aoshi :(