Were you all waiting for the
new appointment with our page, all curious to know who the guest would
have been? Well, your waiting is finished and your curiosity is going
to be soon satisfied! ^__-
Today our Special is dedicated to the Guest Star Rurouni Kenshin,
wandering samurai.
In Italy we have to be satisfied to know it by the manga written by Nobuhiro
Watsuki, composed of 28 volumes; but there are not any anime (the TV episodes
are 95 = 94 + 1 special), not the OVAs (6), not the movie. If you like
to know something more about it, besides take advantage from the 5 awesome
music videos we are hosting in this occasion, I invite you to visit www.kenshin.it,
our friend Ellen's site, who will be happy to talk to you about
it with more competence.
Ellen also took care of the reviews of 4 of the 5 music videos we are
hosting and to write the short introductive story of Rurouni Kenshin...
enjoy! ^__^
by Veggie
Long red hair,
deep purple eyes, a cross-shape scar on his left cheek... he's about "this"
tall, he wears a purple and white kimono. He's a lonely and thoughtful
guy, but if his friends are with him he turns very cheerful. At his side
there is a sword, he never abandons it, it's his sakabato, the reverse-blade
sword.
If you run into him through the streets of Tokyo, be careful. Be very
kind with him, don't make him mad, do not take advantage from the weak,
but, above all, do not challenge him! Because he, he is not just a wandering
samurai... behind that nice face is hidden a great warrior, one of the
greatest swordsmen of the Bakamatsu Era, the hitokiri of the legend, the
killer Battousai.
It's 1878, the eleventh year of Meiji Era, following the Japanese calendar,
and wandering through the streets of Tokyo it is not difficult to run
into the man who matches this description, Himura Kenshin, wandering samurai.
Kenshin's past is enveloped in mystery and myth. All it's allowed to know
about him is told by the 4 OVAs and by the flashback of the TV series
and the manga. Remained orphan when he was still a little child, he's
initiated to the secrets of Mitsurugi Hiten by the master Seijiro Hiko,
who decides to take him under his own protection after having saved him
from the bandits who had attacked the caravan Kenshin was travelling with.
Great are the skills of the young Shinta (this is his real name, that
then he will change in Kenshin - heart of sword - following Hiko's advice)
and he is noticed by the Ishin Shishi when, after an argument with his
master, Kenshin leaves the mountains and heads towards Kyoto in order
to serve the oppressed with his ability. But the Ishin make of him a hitokiri,
and when Tomoe's love seems to lead him again to a life without blood
and violence, her very true past brings him to draw his sword and her
death takes him to war. During the war of the Bakamatsu Era, he gets the
name of the killer Battousai, 'cause his fighting technique lies in cutting
in half whoever steps in his way. With the restoration and the beginning
of the Meiji Era, Battousai and his bloody sword disappear and give their
place to Kenshin Himura and his sakabato.
Ten years have passed, ten years of wandering. Now Kenshin has arrived
to Tokyo with the purpose to maintain the promise not to kill anymore,
but using his sword in order to help the weaks. In the capital he meets
a girl, Kaoru Kamiya, teacher assistant in the Kamiya Kasshin dojo, and
he decides to stop at her in order to help her to rebuild her father dojo.
With this encounter, the adventures of the wandering samurai, told with
great mastery and skill by the grand Nobuhiro Watsuki, start.
Episode after episode, adventure after adventure, Kenshin and Kaoru are
joined by some new friends: the young Yahiko Myojin, through whose veins
runs the blood of the ancient samurais, Sanosuke Sagara aka Zanza, a street
fighter who hates the imperialists who killed his commandant, and the
doctor Mrs. Megumi Takani. But besides the friends, Kenshin must face
several foes: first the false Battousai, who wants to disgrace the name
of the Kamiya, then Zanza himself and finally the Oniwabanshu, whose leader
is the brave Aoshi Shinomori.
When finally is seems like Kenshin can now abandon his wandering and live
an happy life together with his friends, a shadow from his past appears.
It's Saito Hajime who's looking for the challenge with Himura, and because
he needs his help in order to defeat the new enemy of Japan, Shishio Makoto,
and because he's looking for revenge, on that young boy who over ten years
earlier completely defeated his Shinsengumi troop.
The fight between the two is fortunately interrupted and "together"
go and face the hitokiri Shishio and his army: the Juppon Gatana. The
struggles get harder and harder and Kenshin must ask for help to his old
master in order to learn the last secret of Mitsurugi Hiten. Strong of
the new technique, he prepares, together with Saito and Sanosuke, to face
the terrible enemy. But first he has to defeat all the ten members of
the Juppon Gatana and Aoshi, who had swore he would have kill Kenshin
in order to honour his fellows death. At the end of the amazing fight
between Shishio and Kenshin, our hero is took back wounded but alive to
Kaoru and all together return to Tokyo where they find waiting for Kenshin
a new enemy, Enishi Yukishiro, Tomoe's younger brother who wants have
his revenge for his sister's death. Kenshin is so forced to reveal his
past and his feelings for her to Kaoru. Enishi results to be much stronger
than any other opponents Kenshin had to face... Will be Himura able to
defeat this last enemy and live in peace with the girl he loves? Or will
Enishi take definitely away from him any hope for happiness?
I could talk for hours and pages about this wonderful manga where the
action is so well detailed and the different fighting styles and techniques
are described with a lot of emphasis and accuracy. And although the dramatic
force with which many events are filled, Nobuhiro Watsuki finds the time
also for comic and relaxing moments... but let's quit talking, I truly
believe that the best way to understand this anime/manga is given to us
by these music videos, that, with great mastery, manage to represent,
in just few minutes, the true spirit of Rurouni Kenshin.
by Ellen
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"Kenshin" Heiser crapskater@hotmail.com
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