Rurouni Kenshin

[DarkCORN!]

Awesome show, but it would've been better if Kenshin became a manslayer again after that guy (he had completely black eyes with a blue iris) used the lung-paralysing thing on the girl (sword-chick who knows Kameha Kasheen style).

[The SSB Intern]

No, it wouldn't have. Because that was one of the most important parts of the show. It's kinda like not having Black Mage being a pychopath or Figther not being an idiot.

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

It wouldn't have been good if he turned back when Jin-eh did that because it was only episode 6 and then it would have just been him killing peeps and running from the government. No development between him and any of the other characters, no background love story and most importantly, there wouldn't have been the Shishio arc or the ability for Kenshin to have to stop him. And since that's the best part of the show, the stuff before it had to be done that eay it did to set up for it.

Also it wouldn't have been as popular as it was or, even if it was, not in the same way. And as a result, they wouldn't have made such an impacting set of OAVs as they did. And THAT is unexcusable! Those OAVs are a masterpiece.

[Mirai Gen]

What disapointed me the most about the show was the ending. The most powerful samurai ever dies from a disease.-

I think it would have been infinitely better if they had done a half-repeat on what happened in the OVA's. Spoiler text.

It would have been sufficiently kick-ass if he accidentally killed Kouru while trying to slay Bandage Man (Damn, I keep forgetting names, been a long time since I saw that show), re-igniting the same feelings when he killed his wife in the OVAs, and shattering his vow with his spirit.

But, I realize that it's not exactly a happy ending, and I understand why they did what happened.

[DarkCORN!]

Well, it would be cool for a while if he turned back into a manslayer. Like, if a fan made a few episodes where he turned into the manslayer.

[Flarecobra]

It's called fanfics.....seen some, and to be frank, all it is is just him killing people. Not much in the way of plot.

[Bells]

Later on the show Kenshin DOES go back to be the true legendary manslayer... but only during one fight (In wich Physics are Disable)... and it shows that he dosent have THAT phisical condition anymore...

With is the amazing thing about this show.... the characters are human... TRULLY human.... sure... the dude can jump higher than a waterfall, and the other stop bullet form a machinegun by hitting water with a punch strong enought to make a SHIELD of water... but DAMN its just impossible not to be keept in suspense... watching it you are always remembered that the characters can die.... and thats great ^^

[Sesshoumaru]

Heh, I love that show, remembering makes me want to rewatch it.

Also, having Kenshin be a manslayer would be like a Trigun where Vash killed people (with the exception that Kenshin actually has equals, and so would probably die when the world decided to hunt him down).

[Kikuichimonji]

DarkCORN!, if you honestly think that the show might have been better if Kenshin had flipped out, perhaps you've missed the point of it all. The show is very plot and character-driven, and a relapse from that course would add on extra weight to the whole thing. If that makes any sense.

What's interesting about Kenshin's inner turmoil is that the 'manslayer' inside him is not, if memory serves, the heartless killer that Jin-eh is, evidenced by Samurai X and parts of Ruroni Kenshin. Yes, that state's not really human, but he does fight, and kill, for a moral reason - It's not bloodlust for the sake of itself. Although that brings up the question of whether a moral justification was merely a convenient coincidence to satisfy said bloodlust.

[Shishio]

It would have been better if Shishio won.

[Kikuichimonji]

It would have been better if Shishio won.(please spoiler tag plot spoilers)

I disagree strongly. Shishio's a very crazy guy. Him winning would undermine all of Kenshin's philosophy and basically imply that his world was one of insurmountable irony. While I enjoy tragic endings as well, Shishio winnning would basically mean the death of everything the show had built up towards. It would just sort of fizzle out and leave everyone half-satisfied.

Kenshin dying after succeeding, everyone else dying, or something like that, I could understand. But what you suggest cuts the drama in twain.

[Mirai Gen]

Ooh...I like Kukichi's version better. Kenshin dying after killing Shishio... Another thing to add to "Ruroni Kenshin Needed This."

[DarkCORN!]

I'm just saying it would be fun to see him flip out for at least a little while. A half episode of killing, maybe.

[Shishio]

I'm sorry about not using spoiler tags, it never even occurred to me.

Anyway, I still stick to what I said, because I'm incredibly biased about Shishio. Because he is awesome.

I would go into more detail, but it would probably only result in a big argument, which I have no desire for.

[ThePumpkinKing]

ro-ken would have been terrible if kenshin had gone on a killing spree.

ken goes ape shit
ken rapes all of japan with katana
ken saves the day and series ends at episode 8
writers for ro-ken are fired
...with no severance pay.

[Majin Darshe]

Awesome show, but it would've been better if Kenshin became a manslayer again after that guy (he had completely black eyes with a blue iris) used the lung-paralysing thing on the girl (sword-chick who knows Kameha Kasheen style).

You know what woul've been better? If they had animated the manga-only Jinchuu arc instead of giving us 30 episodes of filler and then cancelling it. THEN the anime would've been a "classic"

But the last volume of the manga has finally come out in the states, meaning people can finally see how it was SUPPOSE to end. All is well

[Sesshoumaru]

I second the opinion that they should have animated the Jinchuu arc. It was, without a doubt, the best part of the manga (also a bit tragic, which makes it even more awesome).

[Death by Stabbing]

DarkCORN, are you like 12 or something?...if Kenshin were to go around killing everything then it would undermine everything he stands for...if you read the Jinchu part of the manga then you will realize why this doesn't happen even when Karou seems to be dead...If you cannot grasp the major concepts of the story then you really need to reexamine why you watch or read Ruro-Ken...

I mean sure violence is awsome sometimes...like in westerns and what not...but senceless violence is what Kenshin fights against...he would never create more...

Death By Stabbing

[Mirai Gen]

DarkCORN, are you like 12 or something?...if Kenshin were to go around killing everything then it would undermine everything he stands for...if you read the Jinchu part of the manga then you will realize why this doesn't happen (Spoiler)...If you cannot grasp the major concepts of the story then you really need to reexamine why you watch or read Ruro-Ken...
Well he's banned, and he had a history of flaming and trolling, so I wouldn't worry much about feeding him now.

But, on topic - Did anyone else think it was kind of funny in the OVAs, when he accidentally killed his wife, prompting him to take the oath, but first went and killed like twelve people?

It's a blood oath, I thought Kenshin wouldn't have tried to sidestep it like that.

[Fifthfiend]

I think DC was, like, 14 or thereabouts.

If that means anything to you.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and say, as what more or less passes for a 23-year-old, that I wouldn't mind maybe like one episode of mad Kenshin murderisings.

[Mirai Gen]

I think DC was, like, 14 or thereabouts.

If that means anything to you.
Yes. Yes it does.

And it made me laugh very hard.

[Mondt]

I think DC was, like, 14 or thereabouts.According to him, he was 13.

But I would agree. The fight scenes are good, but a mass homocide would pretty much settle things. All of his crazy moves and awesomeness. And a normal sword. But everyone else is right, it would completely ruin the story.

[synkr0nized]

It's my opinion that Soujiro should have destroyed Kenshin.
But he talked his way out of that one, that he did.

[Death by Stabbing]

Yeah I think Soujiro would have beaten him also if he hadn't talked his way out of it but again it had to happen that way. Even if people wanted the revised ending to the battle with Shishio. So awsome fight but...Kenshin would have to come out on top.