Rurouni Kenshin Ending and Beginnings
Finished RK yesterday. As expected, the last thirty episodes are indeed filler. BOO. I skipped, like, two complete arcs, totaling in about 7 episodes. But I don't care. I really should've stopped watching before then. at first, they weren't bad; they were honestly good. But around 84 or so, they just went downhill. Now I did watch the last episode, which was all right. >_> All in all, I wish they had just stopped production till the manga had gotten a little farther, because now to get the complete story or Kenshin and Kaoru, I'll need to read the manga, which is fine because i found where i can read it online. ^_^
However, yesterday morning I also started the first of the OVAs: Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen. IT. IS. EPIC. Taking place before the events of Rurouni Kenshin, it tells the story of Himura Kenshin in the early beginnings of the Meiji Revolution. This tells how he became the Hitokiri Battousai, and how proficient he was at becoming the assassin of the Revolution. And I'll say this, he is incredible. he is a silent angel of death. his character, too, is very different from that of his rurouni self. and I can even see in his face and demeanor that he is totally different. His eyes are... just not quite right. they're expressionless, really; deadpanned. Like he isn't happy with what he's doing, but he's doing it because it's all he knows. he wanted to help people, and protect people. He 'abandoned' his training with Seijuro to go on his own and is picked up by a man, Katsuo, who wants Kenshin to be his assassin. That was the first opportunity which presented itself, and he, being young--15!! I just did the math--takes it. being so young, i don't think know he doesn't think about the repercussions that death and murder can have, hence why his eyes look so deadpanned whilst he is rocking face at killing working for this guy. Katsuo knows what it will do to his soul, so he asks Tomoe, a woman Kenshin brings home after she drinks too much sake one night, to "be the sheath to his sword." ........ i think that's an innuendo. >_> figuratively, though, he wants her to help Kenshin retain his sanity while doing this job. And now they are posing (I think...) as husband and wife in order to escape Kyoto.
I have two more thirty-minute parts to watch, so i think i may go finish this up now.
However, yesterday morning I also started the first of the OVAs: Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen. IT. IS. EPIC. Taking place before the events of Rurouni Kenshin, it tells the story of Himura Kenshin in the early beginnings of the Meiji Revolution. This tells how he became the Hitokiri Battousai, and how proficient he was at becoming the assassin of the Revolution. And I'll say this, he is incredible. he is a silent angel of death. his character, too, is very different from that of his rurouni self. and I can even see in his face and demeanor that he is totally different. His eyes are... just not quite right. they're expressionless, really; deadpanned. Like he isn't happy with what he's doing, but he's doing it because it's all he knows. he wanted to help people, and protect people. He 'abandoned' his training with Seijuro to go on his own and is picked up by a man, Katsuo, who wants Kenshin to be his assassin. That was the first opportunity which presented itself, and he, being young--15!! I just did the math--takes it. being so young, i don't think know he doesn't think about the repercussions that death and murder can have, hence why his eyes look so deadpanned whilst he is rocking face at killing working for this guy. Katsuo knows what it will do to his soul, so he asks Tomoe, a woman Kenshin brings home after she drinks too much sake one night, to "be the sheath to his sword." ........ i think that's an innuendo. >_> figuratively, though, he wants her to help Kenshin retain his sanity while doing this job. And now they are posing (I think...) as husband and wife in order to escape Kyoto.
I have two more thirty-minute parts to watch, so i think i may go finish this up now.