#Rurouni kenshin movie hd movie

So, many fan favorite scenes were cut or changed in order to accommodate a more fluid movie.

#Rurouni kenshin movie hd movie

The director had to draw the line somewhere so the movie could have an ending. Because the manga was continuous, there was no way for the movie to be cut and dry in terms of villains and side characters. Onto the review: PLOT/STORY: Understandably, this movie had a hard time trying to capture everything in the first volume of the manga in just over two hours.

As a fan of RK, seeing him portrayed that way in 'Samurai X' really broke my heart because a huge chunk of his personality went missing and all that was left was this emo dude. The Kenshin in 'Samurai X' was a somber, overly-wrought, super-tortured fellow who was awash with his own suffering. The whole point of his redemption was that, in spite of the pain of his past, he was still able to appreciate the simple joys in life and even laugh at things. Whether you want to believe it or not, Kenshin really wasn't that way. Even though it was gorgeously rendered, it was overly depressing and moody. He even disagreed with how 'Samurai X' ended regarding the fate of Kaoru and Kenshin, so much so that he insisted on having the proper ending he envisioned for his own characters put into a collector's box edition of the original anime released in Japan. What they must realize is that 'Samurai X' was an OVA created for western audiences done by people who had no connection with the manga or the original anime and thus was a departure from the original intent and feel of what the creator of the manga had in mind.

First off - many of the reviewers thus far seem to be comparing this movie adaptation to 'Samurai X' instead of its source material which is the manga.