 | Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Era - Premium Box 3
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 Filler episodes. | |
| This final season which is based on the meiji era are not actual episodes of the final season, the real last seaon was supposed to be The Jinchuu Arc a.k.a Revenge Arc which was based on the revenge of Enishi Kenshin's brother in law which was became with the marrage of Tomoe. These filler episodes which was produced by sony are based on a religious time for Kenshin. For Kenshin has to face a group of Feug Sheui which want to take over Japan which also wants to take over ASIA. But thats later in the Meiji Era series there are really funny parts in it too but the the stories lack of a lot of stuff I mean what is the main problem I mean the sory for the Wnadering Samurai was just an introductory so it really didn't have a real story line that I can understand but this was just a real weird season. But even though it really isn't really worth the money I will get this seaon anyway because I am a real fan but unless you are a real fan of Rurouni Kenshin don't waste your money on this because Legend of Kyoto ended the right way and remember these are just filler episodes | |
 Lackluster ending to a great series | |
| Background: Up until this season, the TV show closely followed the storylines of the Kenshin manga in Shonen. When this series was being made, the final "Revenge" arc of the Manga which was as good (or better) than the Kyoto arc was still being written. So this season of filler episodes, not written by Watsuki Nobuhiro was put out, got canceled due to lousy ratings and we NEVER get to see the true end of Ruruoni Kenshin on TV (the Samurai X OAVs Trust+Betrayal present a condensed version of Revenge arc's flashbacks and fight with Enishi). So how is this series? Well the stand-alone filler episodes are fine and some of the mini-arcs are OK but others (esp. the Christian rebellion) are plodding, without memorable opponents or battles and very little character maturation. It's like the writers wanted to wait for Watsuki to write the character developement for his protagonists so they ended up treading water for an entire season. They also make some forays into the supernatural, which seems contrary to everything in the series thus far (Wastuki always tooks pains to show there was no magic in his characters, only skill and a few tricks). Technically speaking: The discs are fine but don't have as many features as some of the earlier ones. The subs are excellent but the dubs are pretty bad and the background audio is muted a bit on the dubbed track. WAY too expensive! For the price of all three sets you can get a plane ticket to Hong Kong and get the 'questionable' box which puts 8 episodes per disc (which the domestic version could have easily done but then no one would pay $150.00 for a season on 4 discs...) Rurouni Kenshin - Wandering Samurai Box (5 stars) | |
| Hopefully not the last. | |
| Iam a real fan of rurouni kenshin from 2003-2004 and I'm glad its not short because I like collecting a lot of DVD's and to learn more about the series. This side of the story is called tales of the meiji era and it deals with a lot of religious stuff and hard to imagine why. There are alot of funny stuff like when an artist falls in love with Kaoru and other stuff like that. The only thing I don't like about this box set is that there are only 33 episodes in this which there were suppodes to be 34 in this side of the series. Either the creators are finnaly making the Jinchu Arc or they are just tryin to get you get pissed off and get the LAST DVD just for one DVD. I am not reccommending this unless you are a real rurouni kenshin fan Like I am. Get this if you want to I don't really care. |
