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Kenshin live action
Jan. 9th, 2013 06:11 pmWatched it! This is a film I would've loved to watch in the cinema, but with no UK release date, I just couldn't wait any longer. XD
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, it was a good way of rehashing the beginning of the story, with ways of introducing characters that don't end up in that shounen manga format that really only works in weekly manga. I was very worried when a friend said that they merged Aoshi and Hanya's characters, and gave him guns, but that wasn't really the case - the Oniwabanshou were simply entirely absent from the film, replaced with unnamed fighters, some of whom took up some of the tasks Aoshi did for Kanryu. But they were simply not Oniwabanshou at all and didn't claim to be. I'm okay with that.
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, it was a good way of rehashing the beginning of the story, with ways of introducing characters that don't end up in that shounen manga format that really only works in weekly manga. I was very worried when a friend said that they merged Aoshi and Hanya's characters, and gave him guns, but that wasn't really the case - the Oniwabanshou were simply entirely absent from the film, replaced with unnamed fighters, some of whom took up some of the tasks Aoshi did for Kanryu. But they were simply not Oniwabanshou at all and didn't claim to be. I'm okay with that.
