Rurouni Kenshin: "Only Toonami, that it is..."

Dreadnot · **Dreadnot**

I also get my dvds at deepdiscount. cheaper then amazon on most stuff.
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JJc14 · **JJc14**

saturday night:

karou lets misao and gramps know that they'll be going back to tokyo tomorrow...while gramps wants to throw a party to lighten the mood, everyone seems to go their own ways on their last day in kyoto...

kenshin walks over to a small grave and offers up a prayer to someone he must've known from the revolution, and after a small chat with his master, realizes what he has in life...yahiko goes over to the remains of shishio's hideout, where he meets up with sanosuke: they both re-affirm their reasons for fighting, and sano basically accepts the death of his rival saito...seeing a heavy rainfall, misao takes off with an extra umbrella to meet up with aoshi...megumi takes karou out to a small dock and discusses the physical state of kenshin...megumi basically tells karou to be there for kenshin, and while it initially gets a little teary, a rainbow lightens the mood for them and everyone...

sano and yahiko are obviously lost getting back (gotta love sano's sense of direction), and they bump into megumi and karou...the usual sano/yahiko, megumi/sano exchanges take place until kenshin also shows up...another potential serious moment is lightened, as karou hears kenshin's familiar "oro?", causing everyone to break into laughter...

kenshin thanks gramps and aoshi before heading to the train station, where misao sees them off...as the train leaves, we get a shot at cho talking to saito, who talks about the still-standing grudge between him and kenshin...the group arrives in tokyo, and we get a nice moment between karou and kenshin before we say goodbye to the kyoto arc...

"I've returned, that I have..."

another laid-back episode to counter the tense feelings from just a few weeks ago...watching this again, and knowing how the anime and manga split from here, really made things more interesting with how future events of what would have been the manga were laid out had events changed during production...those in the dark about kenshin's actions may want to check out the first ova, released as "samurai x: trust" and "samurai x: betrayal" here in the states...

i really liked how everything just felt 'natural' again...everyone was able to go back to their regular ways-of-life as seen in the "wandering samurai" arc (sano's sense of direction/reaction to the train, kenshin saying "oro?", etc.)...the ending really provided a great sense of closure to the events that transpired over the past 35 episodes...

[ATTENTION: JJc14 gets really carried away here. Read on for more information concerning the "Tales of the Meiji" arc, but for those who just want the next episode title, scroll down to the bottom.]

now, according to schedule, cn will at least begin with the "tales of the meiji" arc next week, though how far in they plan to go is up in the air right now...beatdig(g)ga mentioned that the "christian" arc is not ready to air, and i'd also expect them to go through the kyoto arc at least one more time anyway, but there's four episodes between the end of the kyoto arc and the beginning of the christian arc, and from what i can remember, they're basically self-contained episodes similar to those seen in the "wandering samurai" arc...

of course, another thing to keep in mind (for those who are following the cartoon network run as their first viewing of kenshin), is that the tales of the meiji does not follow the manga as the previous adventures did...the animators wanted to wait for the manga to catch up so they wouldn't have to improvise a different ending (such as trigun did, for example)...this required them to basically make a "filler" season of the anime in order to buy some time...while how good or bad this turned out depends on the individual viewer, it didn't do well enough in japan and the show was cancelled after this season, meaning the rest of the manga was never animated (although a brief summary of the next manga arc did make it to the "samurai x: reflection" feature)...as such, many people don't really consider this part of the kenshin story, and that may actually be the best mindset to be in when viewing this...

my personal opinion is that i really enjoyed the first half of this arc, liked the setup but not the execution of the next story, and liked the characters but loathed the story and events of the final adventure before the last episode of the series...i'd elaborate further, but that would involve spoiling key events which i don't wanna do, especially not in a thread commenting on cn-aired episodes...

anyway, the above was probably a waste of time, as kenshin will very likely just start over after next week, but kicking off the tales of the meiji arc will be The Legend Of The Fireflies at the usual 11PM timeslot...
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Beatdiggga · **Beatdiggga**

It's over. The edited to bejesus and back run of Ruroni Kenshin is over, and the Cartoon Network won't pick up new episdoes. In some ways (actually a lot of ways) it was a simple mistargeting. Toonami fanboys need to realize that the block belongs to kids who don't care about edits, like Yu-Gi-Oh!, and like Armada because they can't remember a movie showing a planet eating robot and the idiot Autobot who tried to stop him.
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JJc14 · **JJc14**

Beatdiggga · **Beatdiggga**

According to Toonzone guru Matt Wilson, Kenshin is gone after next week. For good. No reruns. The hack job will gather dust in a bin untill the CN contract with Media Blasters expires, at which point they may or may not renegotiate for Adult Swim.
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Chibi_Zero · **Chibi_Zero**

JJc14 · **JJc14**

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JJc14 · **JJc14**

Nobuyuki · **Nobuyuki**

My thoughts? If they were going to stop the show, that episode would be the one to finish with.
A complete sense of renewal throughout the episode, from the fate of everyone favorite chain-smoker (or toothpick chewer Wink

), Kenshin putting his haunted memories of revolutionary Kyoto behind him, Aoshi starting to come out of his depression, Megumi stepping aside while hitting Kaoru with the "obvious stick", and a renewed sense of purpose for Sano and Yahiko.
And in the end, everyone goes home and lives happily ever after...*Yeah, right.*
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Nobuyuki · **Nobuyuki**

Question: Which episode is "Handsome Swordsman of Legend" again?
http://schedule.cartoonnetwork.com/servlet/ScheduleServlet?action=viewAll&showID=325758&show=Rurouni+Kenshin
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JJc14 · **JJc14**

JJc14 · **JJc14**

for those who didn't see it last night, cn pulled Legend of the Fireflies at the last second and decided to go back to the first episode, Handsome Swordsman of Legend, thereby ending the second "season" of new airings at the end of kyoto (and making that long essay on "tales of the meiji" seem like a waste)...

for newcomers, brief summaries of the early episodes are buried in the beginning pages of this thread...while the future of this series' run on television is currently up in the air, remember that all twenty-two dvds have already been released, and the boxset of the first arc is set to be released in three weeks...

speaking of which, does anyone know where i can get some photos and/or further information about the wandering samurai box? from what i've seen, i can't tell if they're just repackaging the six individual dvd releases or redesigning the whole thing entirely...i'd appreciate any help...
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