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Rating:  - TV Series fans, be patient when you watch this
Yet another quality product from the people who brought you Trust and Betrayal. Fans of the previous OVA will love this DVD. Fans of the TV show will have to put up with even more sappy stuff, but the OVA makes up for it with its awesome quality and good fight scenes. Plus, this is the only chance to see Enishi and Kenji in glorious animation, and we get to see Yahiko and Sano's evolution.But this does have flaws, first of all we need more Enishi, this guy is to awesome to get such limited scrren time in this series; second, the characters aren't very believable. After watching how some of the flashbacks actually "happened" in the TV series, the viewer feels like the characters are just acting in a play, instead of being themselves. The series has much better character development, since the OVA characters are just too dramatic. I was actually laughing on some of the so called "flashbacks" because some characters reacted totally different in most situations than how they did in the series. Maybe Kaoru just suffers from bad memory. This is still a must have title for Kenshin fans, fans of the OVA will love this sappy story, and TV fans get to see their loved characters in a less relaxed environment, but with better graphics and fighting.
Rating:  - This is not how it's supposed to be.
If you like the first OVA, you may well like this OVA. However! If you are a fan of the TV show, I can't in good conscience recommend it. The problem with this OVA is that it deviates from the manga, in a bad way. The first OVA was faithful to the manga, although overall I think it was darker and more realistic. THIS OVA, however, rewrites important points in the plot of the earlier parts of the manga (which were animated in the TV series) so that it can be more depressing and make Kenshin ... sad! Also, the end of Kenshin's battle with Enishi is completely, completely different from how it happened in the manga. In a bad way! This OVA depicts what would happen if Kenshin hadn't undergone any character development in the Kyoto plot arc, and still had the same attitude as in the pirate arc at the end of season one. And it's nothing good. If you like the first OVA but do not like the TV series, go ahead and buy it. If you can't stand to miss something with "Kenshin" in the title, go ahead, but prepare to be really depressed, and if you are familiar with the manga version of the Enishi plot arc, really annoyed with the OVA-making people. And if you like Kenshin and thus do not want to see him suffer like this, trust me, this does not happen in the manga, and it isn't compatible with events depicted in the TV series (which is truer to the manga); take solace in that.
Rating:  - The conclusion to the legend.
Its finally here. The REAL ending to the Rurouni Kenshin series. The way it was meant to be. Not some horrible filler episodes, but an OVA based off of the last manga arc of the Rurouni Kenshin series. The main part takes place years after the last manga, when Kenshin and Kaoru have a son, Kenji. Kenshin is on his way back from a trip to China. His ship gets caught in a storm and in his efforts to save a man from being thrown overboard, he himself is thrown overboard.
Kaoru is sick, and after coming back from the port to look for Kenshin, collapses in the dojo. What happens next is a large flashback to all the important events that had to do with Kenshin and Kaoru's relationship, the biggest ones being Jin-eh kidnapping her (See the second Rurouni Kenshin DVD, Battle in the Moonlight) and of course, the most exciting of all, Kenshin vs Enishi Yukishirou (This is taken from the Jinchuu arc, the final part of the kenshin manga that was not animated). You may remember Enishi from the first RK/Samurai X OVA, Betrayal and Trust, he was Tomoe's (Kenshin's first lover) little brother.
After the flashback comes the final conclusion to the RK saga. I wont describe any part of it in the review since its probably a better idea to let you see it for yourself..If you love Rurouni Kenshin, then you MUST NOT miss out on this DVD. If you loved the first OVA then I also recommend this one to you aswell.
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