>finish watching Kenshin anime series
>purchase the OVAs
>see this
wtf
Finish watching Kenshin anime series
Carter Martinez
Benjamin Wilson
This OVA is actually better than the rest of the entire franchise by a significant margin.
Nathaniel Hernandez
The tv series was most likely shown during the day on tv, even then the non filler arcs were fairly brutal at times. The manga is less kid friendly as well.
Landon Adams
>90s
>OVA about a swordsman in the Bakumatsu
>surprised there is violence
Ethan Brown
The manga series included several chapters to a side story that he borrowed hiko's design from. It looks more similar to that.
Christopher Butler
What a mindfuck eh? I saw it as a teen and I had to take two weeks to recover from the shock.
Yeah there was a lot of love and care put into the OVAs, even Remembrance which I liked.
The live action movies are also literally god tier. Kenshins master is ultimate badass, and I'm glad he never interviewed in fights besides chibi Shinta. His name escapes me.
Chase Hall
The kenshin anime really tamed most of the violence down. This would come out of left field for someone who didn't know the manga
Jaxon Brown
Hiko seijiro spelling may be off
Lucas Brown
That's not the point retard. The anime was very "child friendly". Kinda like DB and DBZ, There was violence, but it was always slashes with no blood or inconsequential defeats.
The movie literally opens with OP's webm and makes you wonder if you're in the right movie.
Thomas Sanders
Even nobuhiro watsuki said the ovas were too grimdark
Going super serious was a mistake
Thomas Cook
>This would come out of left field for someone who didn't know the manga
I'm guilty. I was 13 when the movie came out and didn't see it until I was 14. I had only enjoyed the anime. I love Kenshin as the happy-go-lucky guy and the bright intro music that was uplifting. Kenshin had serious moments, and I always wondered just how bad he was. This movie made me jizz my brain.
These two extremes messed with me.
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That's the anime intro, fun!
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Why am I crying almost immediately?
yeah the live actions were brilliant - the fight scenes especially were very well done. they all fit their characters in the anime
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Un-fucking matched to this day.
Jacob Stewart
OFFICIAL RUROUNI KENSHIN POWER RANKINGS
>god tier
the live action movies
the shishio arc
the trust & betrayal ova
the christian samurai filler arc
the enishi arc
>okay tier
that other one movie
the pirates filler arc
the magic eyes samurai arc
>literal shit tier
the ova "remakes"
the reflections ova
the feng shui filler arc
Matthew Lopez
I thought it was well done. They make a really big deal in the series about how bloody the bakumatsu was and fighters are continually categorised as either bakumatsu veterans or meiji weaklings. It made sense that that arc was more brutal than the other arcs/anime.
Charles King
I thought the first live action movie was good because I had zero expectations and it was a pretty cool over the top martial arts like movie. The other two were decent, but goddamn did they rape Sojiro's character and to a degree Aoshi's. I wish they made a 4th movie with Enishi, but it seemed they were satisfied with the Shishio arc.
Evan Hughes
>Why am I crying almost immediately?
Iwasaki Taku would be why
Elijah Myers
what the fuck is up with the new Berserk level animation? It was so bad and downright unnecessary.
Aiden Lewis
Owen Scott
>crows
crowd even
Charles Richardson
It's incredible how this OVAs achieve beauty and poetry inside all that senseless bloodshed and death. Hope inside all that war and loss. Sadly there's nothing like that nowadays. There are anime with great production values, but they are gore porn in which despair is glorified and dignity is fruitless.
Camden Bennett
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>>OVA about a swordsman in the Bakumatsu
>>surprised there is violence
There was nothing was fucked up in this genre as this. Name one if you can because I'll gladly watch it.
Justin Rogers
I'd say the first live action movie is god tier, perhaps the second one. The third one definitively is only okay tier.
Jason Jenkins
the choreography in all of them wad top tier but the first was great in terms of pacing and keeping the4 story together - the other 2 felt a little rushed to keep it all in
Jackson Campbell
so fuckin good
Blake Thompson
syphilis
Austin Long
Why didn't they rape her?
Henry Rodriguez
It was just a raid on a bunch of pilgrims. They want to kill and get as much shit as they can and split. They'd already have human fuck dolls at their camps.
Elijah Jones
name a better samurai work than this
Caleb Stewart
Is she okay?