This is still the most beautiful movie ever made.

Pretty good.
Was talking about it the day before.
Apparently some people haven't seen it.

>>85761914
Pretty much.

Apparently there is another movie where Kenshin loses his memory and dies.

>>85761914

An autismal beta with assburgers gets emotionally manipulated by a literal whore, which ends up having a fit of morality at the most inopportune moment, thus miscalculating and ending her own life.

True kino.

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What did he mean by this?

>>85762104
Reflection.

>>85762284

You're an idiot.

Good gore/action
Cute chick
Dark mood.

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>>85762416

Very iffy among fans, but I liked it. The end was great in my subjective opinion.

>>85762465

what about the LITERAL GOD TIER MUSIC

>>85762461

Do elaborate.

I never understood the timeframe. He's famous for his X scar and killing people. But by the time he got the X scar, he STOPPED killing people and only fought Saito then.

>>85762555
Yea, great music. I have the entire soundtrack.
But Reflection's not canon and the sad end is kinda shit.

I don't recognize that still from The Red Turtle

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>>85762725
>the sad end is kinda shit

>>85762284
Nailed it, this movie was garbage

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This is the only anime movie I've seen that surpasses being good anime and becomes actually good.

>>85761914
I watched this and Reflection back to back, the only time Thai cartoons made me cry...

>>85762973
.So contrarian right now, samwfag

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>>85762973

2hool4skool

>>85762691
Its a metaphor you silly billy. He didn't really stop as he took Tomoe's "kidnappers" brutally.

The X was the last person he killed, and it was the most important in his life, so it stays a stain on his soul forever.

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>>85762973

I'll bite. Why is this highly acclaimed movie which is still considered the best OVA to date garbage?

Do tell.

Are these movies connected to the show at all?

>>85763184
What's a metaphor? I don't follow you, senpai.

He's supposed to be a manslayer with an X on his cheek but the movies (manga too) disprove that. It's not logical.

Also, can we talk about how Sanosuke's arc only really ends in the manga and has never been adapted in anyway?

>>85762691

He had killed several people before the X. If you'll recall is last mark was given to him by Tomoe. Watch the movies again, idiot.

>>85763261
Trust and Betrayal is prequel
Reflection is the non-canon ending. The manga is quite different ending -wise (it encompasses Trust and Betrayal and bits of Reflection).

>>85762416
NOT CANON

>>85763261
The ovas are LITERALLY the history of Kenshin before he became a pacifist in fact the end of the 2nd movie is the almost direct reason why.

I recommend watching them before the tv series.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ed46Ae5jXQ

I'm so glad it also has the best 3DPD adaptation.

>>85763326
No, you're the idiot, who can't read.

He's famous for being the manslayer, who you could identify with his X-shaped Scar on his cheek. Right?

But the OVAs show him killing loads of people BEFORE the scar and becoming famous. When he finally gets the scar, he STOPS kiling and fights Hajime Saito then.

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>>85763291
>He's supposed to be a manslayer with an X on his cheek but the movies (manga too) disprove that. It's not logical.

Wait what...explain some more now I'm confused.

>>85763340
You can watch the OVAs after. There's no reason to watch either in any order. Basically, once you finish Kyoto Arc, you can do OVAs.

>>85763381
Ah now I see the problem

Actually he doesn't stop killing until AFTER the Boshin War ends, then he takes the vow. The last scene of the OVA his him mercing like a hundred dudes at Toba-Fushimi. I believe theres a scene between him and his boss where he says he'll join the war but THEN stop afterwards. So no it does actually make sense

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Is this like End of Eva where i have to watch the whole series before diving in to the OVAs / films / whatever?

If so, how good is the series?

>>85763395
Here:
>>85763381


I'll try again just in case. Everyone knows the hitokiri was an assassin with a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek. but the ovas show that he stopped killing when he got his scar.

IN ADDITION:
He fights Saito and the Shinsengumi as a pacifist. And, accordign to the anime, that makes him weaker (when he fights Saito in the Meiji era)... so?

>>85763492
He stops killing AFTER the war. That could explain it. Except the symbolism and meaning is a bit less impactful. She's no longer the last person she killed. He doesn't learn or change till later then.

>>85763381

His most prominent killings were after the events of the move you fucking idiot. They even showed in the move that he killed for several years, just slaying niggers with a straight face,.

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>>85763368
There's a live action Rurouni Kenshin?!

When the fuck did this happen???

>>85763496
You can watch the OVAs without watching the anime. Though the anime is pretty kickass too. End with season 2. If you really want I can tell you which episodes to watch as season 1 has a few fillers.

>>85763590

Dude.. There are 3 movies which are all great IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXkyJxyJT3E

The choreography in all are absolute gold.

>>85763577
It'd have to be true to make sense. The OVAs nor the manga makes he clear he keeps killing. I always thought he gave it up post-Tomoe.
But I guess not.

>>85763496
Its pretty badass if your into Samurai films or historical dramas. But no you don't have to watch the whole series first.

The first OVA can serve as an excellent introduction or just be watched alone on its own as a stand alone film.

yeah OP you're correct

>>85763590
The Shishio fight is great.

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>>85763649

>that music

YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djErqOH8MDE

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>>85763649
They seem to came out right after I stopped watching anime. Damn son

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>>85763685

>gave it up

Are you retarded? That's when he went nuts without emotion to get the era by.

>>85763649
Tfw Kenshin was the best kino because it didn't have supernatural aura bs and is just about swordsmen with skill.

That Jojo movie was a disaster holy shit and don't even get me started on FMA or BOTH DBZ adaptations.

I think Blade of the Immortal has a live action movie coming soon but they had to change Manji's Shirt because they don't want to trigger people with the Swatsika since most people are ignorant of it's original meaning.

>>85763779
He was killing people before too. And it made sense that Tomoe would be the reason he gave it up. Try seeing it from my perspective. I DID ask the question because I didn't understand the logic at first.

>>85763827

Yes, the sad part is after Tomoe he was just killing to get the job done, which made it sad.

>>85763381
He kills some people, gets one half of the scar, kills a ton of people, becomes infamous as the scarfaced manslayer, gets the other half, retires.

>>85764018
Close. I've been convinced that after he gets the other half he keeps killing. Then the war ends and he gives up killing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YinliVCdpi4
The rest I knew.

Can you guys recommend me samuraikino that is just like this and Sword of the stranger?Wouldnt mind actual films as well

Can't we just agree that the OVA is kino and stop bickering?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sud05o1CiQ

the most beautiful cartoon ever made

>>85764142
Samurai Champloon or whatever. Never seen it but people love it.

I think Gintama also is samurai kino? Same story: haven't see it, heard it's good

>>85764152
We did agree and no one is bickering

I FUCKING KNOW THAT MUSIC VIDEO.
Fuck, the 90s /early 2000s was my era for anime music videos. I fucking love them.
I even MADE some.
Did a Dazed and Confused one for Rurouni Kenshin

>>85764215
Seen Champloo years ago and Gintama isnt really kino

>>85764142
Lone Wolf and Cub

Seven Samurai (kurosawa) you can watch the anime too

Blade of the Immortal

Vagabond

Vinland saga (viking kino but close enough to samurai )

Claymore

Berserk

Peacemaker Kurogane ( whut if the Shinsengumi were the good guys? )

>>85764262
Can't help you then.

Posting favorite ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il__fArr3nA
God tier guitar riff

>>85763368
The live action movies are truly fantastic.
It's just the right amount of over the top anime stuff with some great world setting and top notch acting.
Really a trilogy worth your time

>>85764301
Seen them all (still reading mangas you listed) except for the blade of immortal

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>>85764398

>over the top anime stuff

IN A MOVIE it was done so fucking well

this guy was true to his character hopping around until Keenny took out his legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh1h6dtvUc

I don't know how they did it, but the action really is true to form, and the acting is on fucking point to boot.

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>>85763762

>Damn son

Exactly my thought.

>yfw this webm for the first time

>>85764584
Get on that shit fucker hurry up before it's live action adaptation comes out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2F4-oTNF4

After Tomoe's death he swears to stop killing -after the war ends- . It's pretty explicit in T&B, why all the confusion?

>>85764642
>I don't know how they did it

top notch acting and editing

seriously forgot how good this was

>>85764744

Now make irl cowboy bebop pls

>>85764692
Hiko showing up like that turning that fucker into julian fries was the fucking best

>>85764692

Literally breathless.

In shock at 13 years of age. I can still hear the music.

>>85764642
That was my point exactly, you don't feel like they just took a property and made whatever shit they were able to churn out for profit. You sense that the people behind this were really into the show, its vibe and looks.
Just as an example take how the new Power Rangers got their suits (shown in the trailer btw) and compare it to the way Kenshin got his. You got feelings from one of those scenes, guess which one is actually well made.

>>85764739
It's just one dumbass that didn't pay attention everyone else knows he still killed people through the Boshin War up until Meiji Era

Iirc he get's the Sakabato from the swordmaker near the end of the boshin war and that's where he takes up the vow to never kill again.

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No

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>>85764856

his absolute lack of emotion was the best too

really spoke to his character

>>85764584
One of the old black and white Zorro movies has godtier swordfighting. The one with actual fencers.

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>>85764918

I'm agreeing with you. So much care was put into the OVAs and movie.

I mean this fucking song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFs52jKwBc

>>85764942
I watched it like 10 years ago. Lay off. Why are you so upset?

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>>85764692

>webm

>>85764952
Anyone have the version of this but the pokemon movies? Shows all the great artistic shit. I think Dialgia is included

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>>85764739

Samurai call of duty. He can swear all we wants, but he's still contracted to kill for however many years.

Notice how horrible he looks doing so on the boat and field etc.

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>>85764952

>>85764711
Holy fuck they made a live action of that?

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Please tell me I'm not the only person who bursts into tears hearing 10 seconds of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metQHFQQgZs

>>85763649
I own all fucking 3 of these on blu-ray and I fucking love the choreography holy fucking shit nigger

>>85765338
[the jap is repulsed by true aesthetic beauty]

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>>85765439

The best thing about it they match the characters perfectly, and it's not CGI trash. It's real love.

>>85765435

>people audibly crying

I'm done FUCK

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>>85765584

manly tears - I wish I was there

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>>85765435
>>85765584

>>85765349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNy4geBhG8

this too but don't watch it

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>>85765743

>>85765743
The fuck, they turned the scrawny weasely fuck into a chisel-chinned Superman. That's half of Manji's character gone. Fuck that shit.

>>85762104
Watched that one when it came out, at the time it was emotionally devastating.

>>85762104
Thank god is not canon
I was a kid when I watched it and depressed the hell out of me, OP's already made me sad as fuck but that one was the worst.

>>85764212
you bastard

>>85764142
Harakiri
Yojimbo
The Sword of Doom
The Samurai Trilogy

>>85765945
>>85766014

how else would you have him die

>>85764692
>Killing women without raping them first
The fuck?

>>85766198
With a family and of old age.

>>85764301
>Vagabond
Wait, is there an adaptation to the screen of Vagabond?

>>85766273
I know right? I was surprised too. Maybe that would have crossed the imaginary line of decency.

>>85766198
Happily in bed of old age with his wife.

>>85766273

they want money then they're out


they already have fuckslaves like ur mom

>>85766296

That;s the ending though.

>>85766347

They're bandits robbing a trail. They wanna get in and out as fact as possible.

>>85766413
>Barely 35 yo
>Old age
He died of whatever disease he had without memory and Kaoru also followed him with only 25 yo.

>>85766413
Not to Reflection.
Loses his memory, wanders. Comes home, remembers and dies 4 minutes in.

>>85766464
>as fact as possible.

fast even


>>85766471
>>Barely 35 yo
>>Old age

Not uncommon in the 1i800s especially for overseas travelers as he was.

>>85766494

Your pint?

It perfectly encapsulates his life.

>>85766531
He didn't die of old age though, it was tuberculosis or something like that

m'new to the ol anima. Seen spirited and paprika (latter was shit) Currently watching anthem of the heart (ghibli) very touching

>>85763649
>the tittymonster concubine became flat
DELET

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>>85766471
Why are you making me remember it anon.

>>85766758
Girl is qt as fuck though.

>>85766627

but he was old

>>85762104
Reflections. Kenshin was in his late 40's and went to China to teach Japanese soldiers how to fight during the war.

He had cholera, like what his parents died from and was too sick to go home but Sanosuke helped him out and he got back in time to die in Kourus arms.

>>85766758

grow up

>>85766788
>>85766847
No

>>85761914
>>85761914
Best animated movie ever made.
So fun to see people in here discuss it.

>>85764856
Seeing Kenshin kick ass as a kid was amazing but then fucking Seijuro Hiko shows up and takes it to a whole new level and you know why he was Kenshins teacher.

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>>85763649

JUST GIVE ME A REASON

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>the water animation in Betrayal

>>85766961
I like how late in the series when you think Kenshin and Shishio are the best of the best, you find out Hiko could easily wreck both of them but would rather just drink sake in the mountains.

>>85764952
an underappreciated movie

>>85763244
>the best OVA
https://youtu.be/FeyP70LP92Y

>>85767264
Based Seijuro Hiko.

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>>85762691

Yeah I guess the Shinsengumi fear him for no reason.


Retard. He made his name after her death. Watch the movies again

I remember in middle school I downloaded some AMV from Kazaa of that with some Metallica song I think. It traumatized me because it showed some guy in the beginning getting stabbed in the throat.

That was the most gruesome anime still I saw Ninja Scroll.

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>>85767332
>Hellsing
\>ggood

>>85763291

He participated in the war even and killed after getting the X and some of his biggest battles occurred after receiving it. Hence it became iconic. If that was your doubt.

>>85762691
>But by the time he got the X scar, he STOPPED killing people
Nope, reread the manga. He kept killing till the war ended, he stopped then, he promised Tomoe to bring Japan to a new era and then fade into darkness.

Even the live action movie shows that last part.

>>85767510
Dude, I just tried to find that exact AMV.
I can't seem to find it but the song was Unforgiven I believe. Spooked me out too.

Small world.
Anyone watch Yu Yu Hakusho AMVs?

>>85767332
The Hellsing OVAs were bloated shit with terrible dialogue.

>>85763244
Because a lot of people have shit taste?

>>85767583
I probably still have it on a CD somewhere that might not work. With some EVA and Cowboy Bebop stuff.

>>85767771
Same. I have it saved. If animemusicvideos dot com still exists, I bet you can find it there.

>>85763573

The symbolism doesn't become any less impactful. He literally explains why he has to finish the war.

I think there's a misunderstanding of what the X stands for on your part as well because it isn't suppose to symbolize his last kill. The first slash he receives from the fiance doesn't heal and constantly hurts because he has been wracked with doubt, guilt and a miserable existence. The second slash from tomoe herself indicates that she forgives him and gives new hope. Hence the wounds heal and no longer hurt resulting in the scars.

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>>85767567
>reread the manga.

>early 2000's searching the internet for the manga
>several scanlation groups translating different parts of the manga
>some never finished
>had to download some dodgy files with low quality scans and comics sans font
Basally started reading the manga from the middle.

>>85767810
Thanks I'll keep looking for it

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I think 15 or 16 years ago I saw this OVA (must've been 15 or so), I was really into my anime and manga phase. This movie almost got me depressed, it certainly moved me deeply. I remember even getting two or three friends over to show it to them.

This thread gave me conflicted feels, but thank you anons for this. Now I feel like I absolutely have to watch it again. I'll never forget how badass that scene with the shensengumi was.

>>85768100
Go for it lad.
Can't lose out, can only win.

>>85763649
So this is actually good and not just a meme? I've heard it many times but most Japanese movies I've seen have been kinda shitty

Not a film.


>>>/a/

>>85768342
90% of movies in general are shit, the same happens for live action movies based on manga, but Kenshi is actually pretty decent, good even.

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>>85768100
This is a feel thread like no other, isn't it

What a relief it would be to remove any emotions from your childhood memories. The nostalgia is sometimes killing me.

>>85763649
>that moment at 1:45 where he runs sideways on the ground
>that terrible j-rock blasting all of a sudden
Are you sure this isn't just anime-tier garbage?

>>85768779
If it makes you feel better that Jrock is only in the final credits.

>>85762404
Birds of a Feather Stick Together

Good soundtrack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8WS8a7S9o

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>not Evangelion

Fuck off with your shit taste, pseudo-contrarians

Came just to post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU