It was somewhere in the middle, when Kenshin and Misao were pointlessly yacking in a field of flowers.
I dunno. If Shin Kyoto Hen is any indication of the type of pacing (or lack thereof) we would've gotten from a Jinchuu OVA, I'm just as glad to settle for the mini-Jinchuu snippets in Seisouhen.
I did like some of the updates they made to the original tv music. It would've been nice if they'd started off the story with Saitou's visits to the Kamiya dojo. But overall, it's just a structural dead loss :b
The pigeon is nominally Misao's text-messaging device. This does not explain how/why it's supposed to help her when she first spots Kenshin around the corner of a building and she audibly tells the pigeon to fly over to check him out for recon. What is it supposed to do when it comes back, peck out its observations in Morse code?
IIRC the Oniwabanshuu did use a pigeon brigade to spread warnings through Kyoto about the impending mass arson plan... *riffles through manga* volume 12, page 120.
Though carrier pigeons don't normally work like that, unless these pigeons were originally bred in different coops all over the city and then periodically rotated to stay at the Aoiya just in case an emergency came up and messages needed to be sent to their original home nests oh never mind.
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*headdesk*
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I hope that live-action movie (starring Sato Takeru, hmmmmm...) would be better. Have you seen the promo?
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Was the Jizo statue at the end credits? I don't remember seeing one anywhere.
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I dunno. If Shin Kyoto Hen is any indication of the type of pacing (or lack thereof) we would've gotten from a Jinchuu OVA, I'm just as glad to settle for the mini-Jinchuu snippets in Seisouhen.
I did like some of the updates they made to the original tv music. It would've been nice if they'd started off the story with Saitou's visits to the Kamiya dojo. But overall, it's just a structural dead loss :b
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Also: ... pet pigeon? Really?
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(also, the entire concept of "secret ninja pigeons"* practically requires RK-crackfic...)
*They are so secret we didn't even SEE them in the manga OR the original anime!
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Though carrier pigeons don't normally work like that, unless these pigeons were originally bred in different coops all over the city and then periodically rotated to stay at the Aoiya just in case an emergency came up and messages needed to be sent to their original home nests oh never mind.
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