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[hakkai (#25024)]

 Rurouni Kenshin......Real?

[Animal4890 (#469)]

so...did he become a helpful and charismatic rounin too?

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

No the history behind the story is that the guy dissappeared after the revolution. Rurouni Kenshin is susposed to be based on "what he might have done after the revolution." Its all fictional besides the fact that there was a guy like him during the revolution.

[hakkai (#25024)]

so was gensai as dangerous as kenshin was in the revolution?

[Mithrandir (#31657)]

Saito was one of the people that was real

[Animal4890 (#469)]

omg...what the hell is that picture you have for an avatar Olorin? Is it what I think it is???

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Mithrandir (#31657)]

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

I dont remember Kenshin and Kouru kissing......Strange.

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[hakkai (#25024)]

never seen it so wouldn't know......

btw was saito from the anime(s) exactly like the "real saito"?

[Bakaman (#29063)]

i must be the only person on earth that hates Kenshin
it has cool action but i really cant stand it at all

could barely sit through any of the series (subs)

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[hakkai (#25024)]

hmm........i think i see where you are going with it. i would have loved that too. but then it wouldn't have been on cartoon network and i wouldn't have bothered watching it, so i wouldn't have gotten into anime, and i woldn't have been here posting my 600th post.^^









ps. if you are gonna call me a post whore.....F#%K YOU!!!!!!

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[hakkai (#25024)]

i wasn't directing that at you. right now some people have been calling be a post whore time and time again...........and it's just been pissing(sp) me off!

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[Caddberry (#27690)]

Hakkai the deal with post whore is that it was a joke.. You do really respond and you do add to conversations.. Thats why everyone said it in a joking manner.. ^_^ I like you a lot, and i think you are an awesome person.. Being a post whore was a joke, and i called myself a post whore jokingly as well.. If you were a post whore you would have known a long time ago because people tend to despise them.. Congrats on 600 ^_^

Kenshin would have been bad ass for 18+ IMO, but damn i still just love it. Everyone has their own tastes.. like me trying to figure out if i like hikaru no go enough to finish watching it.. I'm not really THAT into it.. its just a preference thing.. It's just kinda odd i think because i loved Kenshin so much.. I think the whole bad ass with a sword thing could keep me entertained for a long long time..

As much as i hate dubbed anime and such Hakkai i agree with you that if not for Scifi channel it would have taken me longer to actually see the animes that got me all addicted..

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[hakkai (#25024)]

cadd- well, it didn't seem like a joke to me (well.....atleast until you called me one)

baka- well, to tell you the truth i always liked cartoons so i watched cn day-in and day-out(although everyone made fun of me ). but when they started showing anime....i could tell it was different from all that goofey shit, so started watching more aime and less of other stuff(but i still didn't know that it was anime). then finally when i went over to my cuz's house (in San-Antonio) he showed me some "real" anime and i loved it. that is when i found out what anime was. from then on i have liked anime more and more every day.

what i'm trying to get at is that tv doesnt get you into anime entirely(sp)(in some cases). i mean if no one ever mentions the word "anime" around you, how could you know what anime is. But that doesn't mean you wont eventually(sp) find out.

[Mithrandir (#31657)]

1. my avatar is from Ruroni Kenshin: Seisouhen (which is also referred to as Rurouni Kenshin OVA 2)

it is released here in the USA as Samurai X: Reflection


2. the real Saito was just a guy from the Megushimi (sp?) who joined the Meji government police after the revolution

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

I dont think that bakaman is the only person who didnt like Rurouni Kenshin as a light hearted anime. And that is probably the reason that they made the awesome OVA series.

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[Animal4890 (#469)]

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

Bakaman: It's OVA not OAV, and there is no humor in the OVA at all its all serious. I would suggest that you watch it NOW!!

[Bakaman (#29063)]

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

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[hakkai (#25024)]

hope your firewall fails and you get hit by viruses!!

jk


i know this kid who had 2 80gig hd's full of anime stuff and his comp desided to brake down. and he couldn't get the hd out. it was super funney.

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Bakaman (#29063)]

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[Solinde (#27378)]

[Caddberry (#27690)]

We were already way off topic anyway.. Really after you discuss a thread and everyone has had their input or whatever it usually just goes off topic like we all did.. I dont think there is much wrong with going off topic just so long as you arent pulling a new thread in that direction, but thats just me ^_^

[Ein (#34219)]

[Arilou (#34809)]

The Meiji Restoration is a fascinating piece of history... I especially love hwo, for a time, Emperor Komei was basically fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent people from making him absolute ruler of Japan

[Shintou (#31788)]

He didn't disappear after the revolution, after the revolution the government completely changed a policy and he didn't agree so they got someone to kill him off.

http://www.sword.ne.jp/swordsmen/bushi/gensai.html

[Mike (#43833)]

I'm not suprised that he was a real person. Many of the characters were, like Sagara and Seito Hajime. All of them actually existed, and under those names, as well. I think this anime did a wonderful job of bringing Japan's rich history into the series.
MIKE

[Shintou (#31788)]

holy shit this thread is so old =.= damn post whore, nearly 1k posts and registered 4 months after I did

[Mike (#43833)]

[Caddberry (#27690)]

SiRoI RyUu - Mike had valid input into this therad.. And you called him a post whore? Where as you had nothing to add to this thread except calling Mike (who is by the way an avid forum member) a post-whore..

As I said before it's fine to resurrect dead threads with valid input.. Your input on the other hand is nothing but spam.

[Shintou (#31788)]

wow I was only joking lmao
I didn't think you'd take it that way

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Blue-Jay (#65681)]

I'm posting this a bit later too, hope it's ok. ^^

Just to say that after watching Rurouni Kenshin and Peace Maker Kurogane I decided to dig up a bit on Japan's History and it's indeed quite interesting really... actually didn't expect otherwise. And it's always nice to know a bit of the background of the country that is making this great things called anime, especially when the series have historical settings. It helps us to understand the story better.

And just like Mike and others said those people really existed. And also I'd like to add that the Shinsengumi were quite infamous at the time. Although they were also known as the "defenders of Kyoto" they were not the official police; they were just a group of skilled swordman and assassins hired by the Tukogawa regime through one of the local lords to pose as an extra defense against the rebels and the foreigners and their reputation wasn't really good. They became famous however and probably not just because of that famous raid where they captured some of the rebel leaders but also because of their tenacy even after the war was over because even after the shogunate surrendered, many of its members still continued to fight to the death against the new regime.

But I found out that we can take a tour around the Mibu village and the Shinsengumi place, LOL. Well, If I ever visit Japan I'd sure would like to take it.

http://www.japanfile.com/culture_and_society/history/Shinsengumi.shtml

[shireen (#57486)]

wow i had no idea they were real, i just thought they were bringing Japanese history into the show and modifying it slightly to make it suit their storyline

so if saito, sano and the shinsengumi(or shinsen patrol as i know it) were real then did they really meet and fight or was that just make up? and did sano really belong to some regiment sort of thing? and was his friend (the other remaining survivor of the regiment) a real person as well? and did a captain Sagara exist

sorry so many questions came to my head when i read this, i gotta get some answers