| well yea.. what do u think about this ending? that was..... so touching..... i can't express my feelings in words.. it was.. oh my god kenshin <3 it was so sad................ it was so fuckin sad............ but beautiful at the same time.. |
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| agreed! when the scar disappeared the whole symbolism/meaning behind it was beautiful. |
| 10 out of 10. Love it. It was really hard seeing Kenshin suffer. |
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| I just finished watching... very good! Does anyone know what that disease kenshin and kaoru had tho? Also whats the history behind it? I know Kaoru got it from kenshin as a sign of "devotion" but how did kenshin get it and what is it? |
| Fantastic ending. in regards to what disease they each had. Probably a flesh eating disease, only thing I can think of that goes after the skin other than cancer, and you don't get cancer from people. :/. It was a fairly sad ending but glad that the two of them got to see eachother for the last time. imo, it would have been better if they died together at the same time or had all of the main characters around when it all ended. |
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| One of the worst butchering of a manga I have seen. The revenge arc was amazingly good in the manga, on par, if not better than the Kyoto arc, but this OAV ruined it entirely. Enishi, just some crazed maniac??? The 6 comrades aren't even mentioned??? Kenshin Dies??? Really...WTF. I am glad Nobuhiro Watsuki (the author or Rurouni Kenshin) disowned this crap. |
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| I almost cried when I saw the ending, and that's saying alot since I never cry when I watch any form of entertainment. |
| this is on my not to watch list |
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makey0usmil3 said: I just finished watching... very good! Does anyone know what that disease kenshin and kaoru had tho? Also whats the history behind it? I know Kaoru got it from kenshin as a sign of "devotion" but how did kenshin get it and what is it? All I know is that wiki says it's a disease similar to leprosy. Parsalian27 said: One of the worst butchering of a manga I have seen. The revenge arc was amazingly good in the manga, on par, if not better than the Kyoto arc, but this OAV ruined it entirely. Enishi, just some crazed maniac??? The 6 comrades aren't even mentioned??? Kenshin Dies??? Really...WTF. I am glad Nobuhiro Watsuki (the author or Rurouni Kenshin) disowned this crap. Agreed, this was complete bull crap. |
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| This OAV is uber depressing! It would have been one of my fav animes if kenshin didn't die.. of just some stupid disease. How can the battosai die of a disease? -_-'' But still, the ending was beautiful.. how he landed into kaoru's arms and died peacefully on her laps. I cried! and i used 4 tissues. lols! |
| This was a good OVA that offered closure to the series that neither the TV show nor manga nor the first OVA had. I think it's better than Tsuikouhen because of this... |
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| This OVA was sheer balderdash. Everyone in the OVA except Yahiko was completely OOC. Kenshin and Kaoru go from being a young couple in love to some tragic couple with a suicide pact. Enishi is turned into a one-dimensional psychopath. Hiko becomes a depressive philosopher spouting about the sameness of the moon. Eeeehhh? Who are these impostors and where are the real Kenshin-gumi? The only parts of the OVA I liked were the bits with Kenji, who I feel had every right to resent his father. |
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| Saddest ending ever, don't think I've cried so much at anime. :'( |
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| Yeah i can see why people would hate these OVAS since they're totally out of character not related ot the manga blaah blah blah but for me this was the first time I CRIED in front of my computer...like i was BAWLING it was so sadd :( i loved it soo muchh - but i respect and completely understand why/how people could hate it Yonatay said: Saddest ending ever, don't think I've cried so much at anime. :'( ^^me tooo |
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| So in the end Kenshin breaks his "never kill again" vow with infecting Kaoru? LOL |
| loved this OVA and the feel of it but it seems like there is something wrong with it. im giving this anime a 10/10 but for some reason i dont consider this a sequel to the TV series! |
Parsalian27 said: One of the worst butchering of a manga I have seen. The revenge arc was amazingly good in the manga, on par, if not better than the Kyoto arc, but this OAV ruined it entirely. Enishi, just some crazed maniac??? The 6 comrades aren't even mentioned??? Kenshin Dies??? Really...WTF. I am glad Nobuhiro Watsuki (the author or Rurouni Kenshin) disowned this crap. I haven't seen the manga ending yet but your opinion is really rational because this 90 minutes of Rurouni Kenshin is the MOST depressive and unhappy ending I have ever seen. (honestly) Starting in the day when his three...umm lets say it mothers, died for his sake, a life with eternal pain and suffering started within him. Then the bakumatsu days... Tomoe's love and betrayal...10 years of wandering around... The suffering he had was really ENOUGH my dear producers, let him feel happiness at least when Tomoe's brother has forgiven him. I would really like to see him happy, and to see that his atonement was completed...when he was alive of course. Okay, i must admit that i liked the flashbacks but this kinda ending is tooo much gloomy for me to handle. What can i say... rest in peace Himura Kenshin... I wish you hadn't given up the sword that protects the weak, even if you couldn't wield it anymore. Cheers. not "DESPAIRS!".. yes actually this is the feeling that this OVA granted me: DESPAIRS TO ALL OF YOU WHO LOVES HIMURA KENSHIN! SEE? SEE THAT? HE IS DEAD ALTHOUGHT HE IS THE MOST KIND HUMAN IN THE WORLD!!! |
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| Like all of you I found this incredibly depressing - perhaps the most depressing anime I've ever seen. I wish I hadn't seen it.. My problem was that I got way too attatched to the Kenshin in the series - and they totally portrayed him in a way that I felt was unrealistic to that. Gaaaahh even thinking about it upsets me. |
| haha me 10 score My sister is crying T_T..... until now hahaha.. kidding.. T_T |
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| I thought it was a sad ending and it was executed well. HOWEVER, I don't think the Kenshin portrayed in this OVA was the same Kenshin portrayed in the original anime, which makes me a bit disappointed. He really cared for people's lives and he was a natural wanderer by heart, but I still don't think he would have left his family like that, especially knowing he had such a deadly disease and I don't think he would have agreed to let Kaoru contract it as well. It's still a good OVA, if I had watched this without watching the anime, but because I watched the anime long before, I can't accept the ending happily. I would have liked it more if it were a happy ending instead. |
| it was "so-so". i like its music a lot but the reason why i was sad while watching was just how pitiful they made kenshin look..the scar faded was stereotype but hey! if it didnt fade this would ve been a sad ending:P as a yaoi fan i like the sanoxkenshin scenes too:P other than that it is obvious that they made this ova just to sell it older people and made them feel they are mature enough to be enjoying tragedy danz said: HEH!So in the end Kenshin breaks his "never kill again" vow with infecting Kaoru? LOL |
| I enjoy the ending but I don't think this should be a sequel to the series. "ALTERNATIVE SEQUEL" would be more suitable. Otherwise it butchers the true story of Kenshin. |
| Very sad ending and very different from tv season. I somehow hopped for happy ending. But this was best recap/ recollection anime i've ever seen. I wonder if manga went this way too, ... |
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| Huh too much hate for these OVAs. It was pretty sad but personally I liked it a lot. 10/10 |
| 10/10! i like it better than tsukiohen.. gahhh! I don't know how good was the manga,. but i liked this Ova. It really made me cry.. gahhh! ~ I really like Kaoru! :'( Atleast, in the end, Kenshin got his freedom with kaoru.. guess that's the happy ending part? *sigh! Still, its really sad yet beautiful at the same time. :DDDD Viva, Samurai X : Seisouhen! :D |
| Epic ending. Like always w.e we do our next generation will carry on. Never die without an smile. |
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danz said: So in the end Kenshin breaks his "never kill again" vow with infecting Kaoru? LOL I think there are certain circumtance that made Kenshin have to kill again, just like when he tried to kill Jinei. but I believe Kenshin do his best. Kenshin isnt intentionally want to infect Kaoru with his disease, but Kaoru herself that want to share Kenshin's burden with her. Kaoru also do her best as Kenshin's wife. in the end, this OVA was so sad that make me shed much tears. |
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| I haven't read the manga, so I can't compare them, but I really enjoyed this OVA. I understand quite a few of the players here were out of character compared to the TV series and manga, but I didn't dislike the difference. When watching the series, I couldn't see someone with Kenshin's past falling into a happy ending. He'd gone too deep for too long, and his guilt and sense of justice would have never let him rest. For me this OVA had a heavy reality to it that resonated with Tsuiokuhen and maintained the progression of Kenshin's character... and, however brutal it was, brought closure. |
| Definitely consider this to be quite underrated by the Kenshin fans. I first watched this before I read the manga, and I thought it was a great ending, despite me already knowing that it was non-canon and that the author hated it. Yes, the manga ending is better, no doubt. But this ending will never be bad in my opinion. I mean, nothing wrong with it being bittersweet. It fits perfectly together with the style of the previous OVA, Tsuioku Hen, because that's what it is; a sequel of the OVA, not the TV series. Read the manga, Tsuioku Hen and the chapters it adapted are extremely different in tone. The chapters had a dark tone compared to the rest of the manga, but not anywhere near the OVA. Hell, even the way Kenshin got his second scar to complete the cross was a bit different to how he got it in the manga. Everything in both OVAs has been made darker and edgier, a more realistic version. And in that sense, this ending fits perfectly and is a very good closure to Kenshin himself, once again, in terms of the OVAs. Anyway, I hope the fans don't rate this low because of the bittersweet ending and because of the author disapproving this ending. It really is beautiful, not as beautiful as Tsuioku Hen, but beautiful nonetheless, and very well executed. |
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| This... This punched me right in the feels. |
| i remembered when i watched this, maybe 6 years ago.. totally put me in depressed mood. i'm not saying that this OVA is bad.. it's actually pretty good, but i don't think i can watch this again.. =_= |
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| My God, this was the hardest hour and a half I've ever spent watching an anime. I do think a lot of Kenshin fans grossly overreact to the "OOC" elements of this anime, whining about "that's not what Kenshin and Kaoru are like." Listen, we're all human beings. We all have our fleeting moments of happiness, of joy. The focus of this was to bring forward the sadness and suffering they had to go through. It had to be present, especially considering Kenshin's sad history and painful experiences (both mentally and physically). I really could see Kenshin and Kaoru's lives playing out like this. The end of the Tokugawa era and the begging of the Meiji era were tough times for the people of Japan and Kenshin's character suffered through the worst. With that being said, this was really hard to watch. To see how much Kenshin and Kaoru suffered was almost too much to bear. It was sad, but bittersweet that at least Kenshin got to die with his beloved. Still, I have to coincide with Choroshi above me though. While I found this to be a great OVA, I don't think I could ever watch it again. I think I'm going to have to be put on anti-depressants from just watching this once. :-/ |
| i think this ova isn't any good, well yeah its depressing and so but it didn't actually move my heart even an inch, because too much drama is not bringing tears just makes it fake and out of this world. Also the worst thing of the ova is that all the characters are changed, they totally ruined enishi arc because i actually cried when reading manga and this was just what so ever. I could maybe give some points for music but art design also was not to my liking. But generally 3/10. |
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| My comment on part 2 applies to here too :) This is like the ending of the whole Rurouni Kenshin anime. It was really good, it shows us what happened in the anime, what happened after the end of the anime. And it gives us a closure, for some it might be sad, I can think of a happier ending than this, but this was like the end of their life, the end of Kenshin. I really liked it. (I still have to see Rurouni Kenshin the actual movie/not the anime movie) |
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