Rurouni Kenshin OVA

[DraGunZer0]

Alright I know the OVA is pretty old but recently I decided to watch it again (I've seen it over 6 times now) and I thought I understood everything from the OVA but theres a couple questions that remained:

1.) Is Saitoh in the OVA, the same one with the "Wolf" thrusting techniques in the RK series?
I asked a friend of mine a while back with this and he said no... after watching this again I still hold to my beliefs that he is infact the same Saitoh.

2.) If it is the same Saitoh, how did he survive?
This was what my friend used to counter my question... It might have been explained in the series, not too sure.

3.) In the end, Katsura recruited a new assassin to replace Kenshin, was that Shi Shio?
At first, I didn't have any questions with this because I was watching the dubbed version so I probably didn't hear it right. But while watching the subbed version he mentions that he found a new assassin. All the times i viewed the OVA i thought that it was Katsura that killed the spy but when watching it this time i noticed that he wasnt holding a sword when the spy was dying. So now the question is, is Shi Shio the "replacement" battousai.

I think thats all the questions I have... Love this OVA so much so I wanted to get some final facts strait.

[MrTicTac]

okie its been a really long time since i've watched it,, but i think i'm right

yea saitoh was in there,, wasnt there a scene with teen kenshin fighting in an alley against several samurai (they wore like a light blue coat, with white ball decorations or something), he and saitoh fight and were evenly matched (he did do that sword-thrust technique i think) but the fight was interrupted in the end

[XanBcoo]

1.) That's the same Hajime Saito. How could you think it isn't?? He's the 3rd Squad Captain of the shinsengumi. It even says, Saito Hajime in the credits. Your friend needs to watch it again or something.

2.) As tic tac said, Kenshin and Saito's fight in the alley was interrupted. In fact, the two fought numerous times (Kenshin says this in the anime) but neither of them ever came out on top. The fight at the end of the OVA was a recreation of the flashback fight in the series (at the beginning of the Kyoto Arc)

3.) That was Shishio. In the manga, he actually speaks, saying something along the lines of: "it doesn't matter which side I'm on, because in the end it will be my government that comes out on top"

Shishio pwnzors

[DraGunZer0]

thanx for clarifying all, and yea I KNEW it was saitoh... stupid friends.... and I just caught Shishio today while rewatching the OVA. (Watched the OVA before ever hearing about Rurouni Kenshin actually)

[Animeniax]

I just finished watching the first OVA for Rurouni Kenshin and it was pretty awesome. Thanks goes to Assassin for recommending the OVA and the series.

Which fansub is best for the Kenshin TV series? I guess accuracy in translation is the most important quality I'm looking for, but even so I always like the Lunar sub of Bleach because it gave the dialogue some character.

Thanks in advance.

[Zati]

I think its between Anime HQ and Anime-4ever for the fansubs you can try one episode of each too see which one you will like but it seems Anime HQ will be better though.

[Animeniax]

A lot of the seeders where I get my anime from have the Rurouni Kenshin series from a fansub group that titles their work {P-A}. Any idea which group this is?

[Zati]

Yeah they are called Psychlo-Anime but sorry don't know much about them think they been around awhile though.

This is there site :

Psychlo - Anime Site

[Animeniax]

Cool thanks for all the information. There's this store where I'm at that sells fansubbed collections of anime for cheap and I saw RK there, but I didn't check who the fansub group was. I'd rather pay $30 for all 95 episodes instead of downloading them all. Well, maybe.

[Kraco]

Buying them would be an insult to the fansubbers, though.

And even if it wasn't, 30 dollars wouldn't be cheap but highway robbery. The shopkeeper got it free, after all, plus pennies for media.

[kAi]

and from ones that I've seen like that (the cheap ones from stores), the subtitles are shitty.

[Animeniax]

Buying them would be an insult to the fansubbers, though.

And even if it wasn't, 30 dollars wouldn't be cheap but highway robbery. The shopkeeper got it free, after all, plus pennies for media.

The set is in a nice production package with art from the series and all and it almost looks like production material from a major distributor, except it shows who the fansubber group is and has warnings that its a fansubbed distro of the material.

For me, $30 is pretty good compared to downloading 95 (or 66 if I don't bother watching the filler) files at over 200MB each on a satellite connection. Still, there is that satisfying feeling when you check your dl client and see another dl has finished.

and from ones that I've seen like that (the cheap ones from stores), the subtitles are shitty.

I saw the Bleach set of episodes 1-60 fansubbed by Lunar, so some of them have good subs.

[Animeniax]

So I've finished watching episode 3 of RK the TV series and it's pretty good, but that's only because I've seen the first OVA. Without having seen the OVA, I can't say I'd enjoy the series quite as much, and might not like it at all (low quality animation and some annoying staple characters like Yahiko and Kaoru).

It'd be like watching the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy without having read "The Hobbit" first.

[Animeniax]

For some reason I'm tired of hearing Kenshin say "de gozaru" or some variation after almost every sentence!!!
I haven't minded Naruto saying "dattebayo" or some variation after every other sentence. Weird.

[Yukimura]

You really shouldn't judge the show on the first three eps and the OVA...considering the best part of the show is eps 26-65 and they can only really be compared to the Trust and Betrayal OVA. I read the LotR series before the Hobbit and was simply impressed with how much better the Hobbit was compared to Book 1.

[Animeniax]

Yeah I'm going to stick with this show and watch it at least until the fillers start at 66. It is a pretty good anime story and character wise.

I'd have been lost (and possibly uninterested) in the Fellowship if I hadn't read the Hobbit first. Tolkien really should have made it a 4-book series, instead of a trilogy with the Hobbit as suggested reading.

[Marik]

The OVAs are getting a BD release and a new anime project has been green-lit.

The June issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine is announcing on Thursday that production on a new Rurouni Kenshin anime project has been green-lit. More information will be provided in future issues of Jump Square.

The magazine also noted that the Blu-ray Disc versions of the two Rurouni Kenshin original video anime (OVA) projects and the Rurouni Kenshin: Ishin Shishi no Chinkonka [Requiem] film will ship between August 24 and October 26. A compilation CD will ship on July 27. Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan Saisen, a new game for the Sony PSP system, already shipped last month.

News: New Rurouni Kenshin Anime Green-Lit

[Illrenmazou]

Awesome!
I hope it's going to be something like FMA: Brotherhood.

[Penner]

Whaaat, a new Kenshin anime!? Awesome news!

[shinta|hikari]

Shinta's back!!! Kyaaaaaa~

/end of fangirl transformation