#rurouni kenshin tsuioku-hen

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Do You Know This Anime?

[nyaa]

[eternal-echoes]

So I finally gotten around to watching the Rurouni Kenshin reboot.

Some thoughts:

-The animation is honestly way better

-I like Soma Saito as Kenshin a lot more than Mayo Suzukaze. I think he was the perfect choice. There's gentleness in his voice but he can easily slip right into menacing and threatening.

-I also like the voice actors for Okita Soji and Hajime Saito.

-I was expecting Okita and Battousai to fight just like they did in Tsuioku-hen OVA and the live-action movie. But they didn't. He didn't even cough so Saito's concern might seem out of place for people watching this for the first time. (I feel like there's an assumption that the main audience watching this have already seen the first anime series and finished the manga already).

-I like how Kaoru and Kenshin met for the first time better in the old anime than in this new man. I felt it was more dramatic since he actually fell on the roof. Though I do like that they changed the time of the day to nighttime rather than dawn.

-I like how Kenshin saved Kaoru in the first anime better than in this one. There's more urgency and suspense this time around but I like the inverted colors of the old anime.

- I remember back then thinking how if Kaoru is a Kamiya Kasshin master, she would know not to carelessly hold a sword like this:

So I'm glad they didn't add that this time.

-I remember reading the manga for the first time after seeing the old anime and I thought I liked how the anime adaptation changed the storyline more. Now re-visiting that story again in this anime I think they're pretty equal. I think it highlights Kaoru being optimistic about people not caring about their pasts and how that helped Kenshin heal from his past. I think in the old anime it just seem like Kaoru only didn't care about Kenshin's past specifically (since he saved her life), not just in general. This time it's showing that her optimism is a particular character trait.

-the old anime also omitted how Kaoru picked up some clues where the fake Battousai is coming from since they changed the storyline. Although in the old anime she did figure out that Gohei was a former student of her father. But I think the old anime kinda made Kaoru a bit dumber and helpless than she really is.

-the animated fighting scenes are amazing. It feels like a nice 3-D ride.

-maybe this is more of a translation thing so I can't blame the animators for this but I like Kenshin's dialogue about swordsmanship more in the old anime and English dub anime (specifically the one by Bang Zoom! Entertainment)

-I like the openings songs more from the first anime than this one. When I first heard it from the trailers, I was like, "NO!!! It doesn't fit!"

And this is a lot of spoilers for first time fans:

-but in terms of the soundtrack/background music (idk what they're called specifically), I like this one, too. But a lot of the ones from the old anime still resonate with me.

-Kenshin seems more menacing this time around. And I think that really highlights how he still has a manslayer inside him.

-Also, Kenshin seems a little bit flippant to Kaoru here

I get that she was kinda being rude to him by saying he's just a wanderer, but the way he just walked away when she was baring her emotions was kinda off-putting to me. Maybe I'm the only one interpreting it this way

-Kenshin in the rain!!!

(I guess I'm fond of this because he met Tomoe in the rain)

-Yahiko's hair is a bit weird

Maybe I'm just a bit biased because I watched the old anime multiple times so that's still within me so maybe some of the changes they made would take a while to get use to, as oppose to someone watching it for the first time might have a different experience. I was a bit reluctant rewatching something I already know the story of but I'm excited after the first episode. Looking forward to the next.

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[koijini]

▪︎フォロー

[clair-audients]

[tsukyuo]

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I finished rewatching Tsuioku-hen and it’s still one of the best animations ever made. It’s at an absolute pinnacle - story, characterization, symbolism, detailed movements and facial expressions, the direction, the cinematography, music, everything is top notch. The incredibly smooth swordplay that allows you to see the skill and deadliness of Kenshin in his Battousai days in exquisite detail. Nothing topped that since 1999, with maybe Sword of the Stranger movie rivaling Tsuioku-hen in the swordplay department.

Fun fact: I got into Rurouni Kenshin series because of this OVA. I watched it randomly because it was short, only 4 eps. It’s an absolute pleasure to rewatch it and still enjoy it so, so much. It didn’t get old at all. 10/10 always and forever.

(Now when Jinchuu arc will get a proper anime? It’s been 20 years and I’m still waiting...)

[uchiha-yuki]

[vigilantsnowman]

Piano solo arrangement of the ending theme from Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen (Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal). Composed by Taku Iwasaki.

[nyaa]

[eternal-echoes]

Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen

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tomo - by the fireplace 

https://youtu.be/x7_VYw5TSSE

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Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen (1999) Act I: The Man of the Slashing Sword 

You really make it fall. The rain of blood. 

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A beautiful piece from the Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal OVA