Post by aka Cthulhu on Jan 6, 2009 10:36:56 GMT -5
Anime #4, and it's the first OVA/Movie on this thread/poll.
4. Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen/(Trust and Betrayal)
In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon. Hiko kills the raiding bandits in hopes of saving as many lives as possible, but only manages to spare one life from the massacre. Hiko leaves the child, advising him to go to the nearby village and have them take care of him. A few days later, as Hiko comes back to check upon the child he saved, he is shocked to see the child had created graves, both for the slaves he befriended and the bandits who killed them. Seeing potential in the young one, Hiko takes the child under his wing, names him Kenshin, meaning ¡°heart of sword,¡± and teaches him about the art of swordsmanship under the Hiten Mitsuruugi Ryu.
Struggling in a constant challenge with his ideal beliefs reflecting against the harshness of reality, Tsuiokuhen tells the melancholic and dark story of Himura Kenshin as one of the most feared assassins of the Japanese Revolution: the Hitokiri Battousai.
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal, released in Japan as Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen (×·‘›¾E Recollection or Reminiscence), is a four part OVA that serves as a prequel to the Rurouni Kenshin television series. It was released in Japan in 1999.
The OVA tells the story of how protagonist Himura Kenshin becomes the Hitokiri Batt¨sai and how he obtains his infamous cross-shaped scar. Himura is six years old at the outset of the OVA and eighteen by its conclusion. The OVA is set during the final years of the Bakumatsu up through the start of the Boshin War.
In 2003, Trust and Betrayal was collected into a two hour feature-length motion picture with new animated sequences and released in North America as a Director's Cut DVD.
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(Will Watch, Won't Watch, and Watched/Watching)
1. The Skull Man -- 9, 14, 1
2. Bartender -- 11, 8, 2
3. Planetes -- 4, 7, 3
4. Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen/(Trust and Betrayal)
In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon. Hiko kills the raiding bandits in hopes of saving as many lives as possible, but only manages to spare one life from the massacre. Hiko leaves the child, advising him to go to the nearby village and have them take care of him. A few days later, as Hiko comes back to check upon the child he saved, he is shocked to see the child had created graves, both for the slaves he befriended and the bandits who killed them. Seeing potential in the young one, Hiko takes the child under his wing, names him Kenshin, meaning ¡°heart of sword,¡± and teaches him about the art of swordsmanship under the Hiten Mitsuruugi Ryu.
Struggling in a constant challenge with his ideal beliefs reflecting against the harshness of reality, Tsuiokuhen tells the melancholic and dark story of Himura Kenshin as one of the most feared assassins of the Japanese Revolution: the Hitokiri Battousai.
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal, released in Japan as Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen (×·‘›¾E Recollection or Reminiscence), is a four part OVA that serves as a prequel to the Rurouni Kenshin television series. It was released in Japan in 1999.
The OVA tells the story of how protagonist Himura Kenshin becomes the Hitokiri Batt¨sai and how he obtains his infamous cross-shaped scar. Himura is six years old at the outset of the OVA and eighteen by its conclusion. The OVA is set during the final years of the Bakumatsu up through the start of the Boshin War.
In 2003, Trust and Betrayal was collected into a two hour feature-length motion picture with new animated sequences and released in North America as a Director's Cut DVD.
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(Will Watch, Won't Watch, and Watched/Watching)
1. The Skull Man -- 9, 14, 1
2. Bartender -- 11, 8, 2
3. Planetes -- 4, 7, 3