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Because this is a prequel, some prequels are meant to be watched after the main story...

I'd like to know if i should watch the T.V. anime first please.

No you don't need to. I haven't watched the main series either but this was still awesome.

You don't need to. I watched the TV series first but you don't need that to understand the OVAs.

awesome

In fact, its better if you watch this first :P

I watched the OVAs before the TV series and it was fine, but after then watching the TV series and then the OVA, it has more of an impact on you, as you know the characters more. :)

id recommend watching the TV series first even if this is a prequel..

Watch the TV series first. It will make you care more. That's really the way its meant to be watched too.

QFT = Quoted for Truth people...and this man speaks it :D

It didnt make me care. I really hated the TV series and dropped it halfway. But before I did, I watched the OVA, and I wished I never had watched the series first. How can the TV make you care more when the characters and their personalities are completely different (they only share 3 characters anyway), except for kenshins master who's actually more cool in the OVA.
Anyway I think if its a shounen fan I'm recommending too, I think its TV first and then OVA. But if its someone who stays away from shounen or only remotely interested in it, then there's no need to plow through the whole TV series

There is so much more emotion if you watch it after.

lol you know this is one question that will always get people split in half. After hearing out the opposite "watch TV first camp", I think that it depends on how much you like conventional shounen series'. Watching a couple of eps of TV wont hurt, but there's no need to drag your feet if you dont get the feel since its a long series. Also, judging the TV by ova or vice-versa is a huge mistake since they are like antithesis of each other.

You don't need to be "dragged", I marathoned it. I am not even a huge fan of shounen either.



This is too obvious, do you really think Kenshin would go "Oro!" in the OVA?

lol ofcourse not. I used the word 'dragged' because thats how I felt when I kept on watching the TV series just because some people told me that it gets better. In a way it does, but I didnt feel it was worth going through 60 plus eps just to watch that season 2 finale.
My point is, if you dont like the TV series, don't let that hold you back on the OVA, and the other way could also be true (as much as I hate to admit it)

No if you like the series, you probably will give a 10 to this. The converse is not true however.

then why have I given the ova a 10 if I don't like the series? there's obviously two different opinions on this if you check the ep 4 discussion or the other thread on this. Seabury in the ep 4 discussion said he couldn't even stand the TV series for more than 2 minutes, and i cant really blame him cuz it really is too goofy, emo and cheesy for my taste. Not to mention how much the comedy sucked. But he has the OVA in his fav list.

I just don't get why the TV fans put off so many ppl from watching the oVA by claiming how they cant enjoy the OVA if they don't watch the TV first, and I've seen many people hold off watching it or not watching it at all because of that. Of course, if you like the TV more that's your taste, and you will connect to the OVA more than you would usually. But these two anime are virtually different in every aspect, except for having two same characters and even they have completely different personalities in the OVA. Coupled with the fact that the OVA story has no direct connection, as in there's no "TO BE CONTINUED" type ending, I think it should be seen as an entirely separate experience.

Consider the alternative; a fan tells you that you wont be able to enjoy the OVA if you dont like the TV, and you never watch the OVA. Which is much worse. Because there are many people who have given the OVA a 10 but did not like the TV series. I think its just a myth that Kenshin purists have created, you dont neessarily need to like the TV to like the OVA

But the people who haven't watched the main series and started this before , we way probably gave it a 7 just because "I didn't understand it", outnumber those few individuals such as yourself who recognize the greatness of this Anime.

Why is it "emo and chessy"? How chessy can it be?



In the manga, that's how it was sequentially played out. This took place after the Kyoto arc. The reason is that after the Kyoto arc you understand the minor characters such as Saito more and most of all Kenshin.



No, but you will feel more emotions towards Kenshin if you watch the main series. You will understand him even more. If you didn't read or watch up till the Kyoto arc you may only grasp 90% (at most perhaps) of Kenshin's character and you may think you got it all, but the remaining 10% will never be obtained unless you watch it in order that I think the creator designed for us.

For instance, I got Kenshin on my favorite character list which means I got the rest of the 10% and you don't (this is sarcasm, don't take it too seriously lol)

i do agree though that watching the series first is best as you will actually care about the character alot more than you would if you dont know him at all.

You guys are obviously giving these OVA's to little credit. You see, Kenshin is characterized so well that it's very easy to identify with his tragic origins without having seen the anime or reading the manga.

that's what I'm trying to say. Kenshin purists might think otherwise, but what confucious said does not necessarily apply to everyone. Its the same as saying that you cant appreciate FMA B or Gits SAC without watching the anime that came before. THe characters in Kenshin are completely different, only their character design is similar.

Besides I can argue the other way, that you cant appreciate saito or kenshin or his masters characters in the TV series unless you watch the OVA first and know their origins and how they first encounter each other,, and you will understand their interaction in the series better that way. But I know thats not necessarily true because they are both so different that its much more accurate to call them alternate universes/versions like the GitS anime; they're connected, but its not necessary that you watch one to appreciate the other. Senkou no nightraid ep 00 and the second special episode is another example where watching production order is not necessarily better.

My point is that its fine either way, whether you watch this first or the other, as long as you keep in mind that they are entirely different experiences.

and Confucius, the only reason i don't have kenshin on my fav list IS because of his character in the TV series.