>>272441027>The only bit of Kaoru-dono dono this episode I'm starving, that I am.
Gay anime.
Misao young body
>>272441684wtf is that helmet?
>>272442481I mean, he was a bizarre cone-headed Jojo character in the manga, this makes him slightly less weird.
I feel very "meh' about this EP but on the other hand it really kept attention and was entertaining, so yeah. I guess it was good afterall?Senkaku was funny and pretty cool of Kenshin to show mercy and reveal a move.
>>272442926Anime improved it since it's fitting comedy when his helmet splits to reveal his skull actually looks like that lol
I really like the OP theme, it's nothing compared to the original anime S2 OP, but still good.
>enters the thread
>>272441027Fuck MegumiMarry MisaoKill Kaoru
woah he said the thing
They just don't make human catapults like they used to in the good old days.
>>272443144>I feel very "meh' about this EPYou mean the animation/directing or how the story played out? Even in the manga, the Senkaku segment ends up being rather silly despite the initial hype he got as the tyrant of the village. The conversation with Shishio was still good as I remembered.
>>272445931I think it was the tone with Senkaku, ended up a bit silly, the "instant movement" bullshit went on for a bit too long even if it built into the nice twist.The whole meeting's had an artificial feel to it too, where you know nothing will happen because the story's just introducing a villain. Too sterile/fake?Directing was good but nothing really stood out besides the initial blade block and helmet split joke.
>>272441027Fuck MisaoFuck KaoruMarry Megumi
>>272441027How is the soundtrack of this new anime compared to the original? Because original anime's soundtrack is outstanding. The last battle vs Shishio wouldn't have been that fantastic without the music.
>>272446390Mid
>>272444136Kaoru-dono my beloved.
>>272446390It's got some nice tracks for the battle themes, but it's not super memorable.
Before I fight Shishio I must breed Kaoru-dono, that I must do!
>>272448124hot
>>272441780>teleports behind you
>>272448124canon
What went so right with this remake?!
Uhhh... is it okay for Saito to give headpats to Misao?
>>272444136How's the boat ride Kaoru-dono?>>272446390Better than the last season but it's just "ok" for now. Wish they could use some of the old tracks or at least try to make something more memorable. I think very few anime actually try in that department nowadays.
>epic fight music is backThis show has been so kino.>>272450082Yes, but imagine "Heart of Sword" pops up during Shishio vs Kenshin.
>>272449761Yes because he's a married man.
>>272441027Fuck MegumiFuck KaoruFuck MisaoFuck and Marry Tsubame
>>272441027Why do they all have black hair? DIVERSITY?! HELLO?
>>272442481Juggernaut.Every Kenshin Villain is a X-Man villain
Why am I supposed to root for a pacifist manlet groomer instead of a CHAD ALPHA MALE like Shishio again?
>>272450352Because Kaoru is cuter than yumi
>>272450352Cause he's just coping for the fact that he can't function in peaceful society, so he wants to drag everybody down to his level so he can dominate them with violence. He's basically just a charismatic thug.
>>272441027finally I can post this
>>272450265Watsuki...
>>272450683>>272441128that's what's missing. Saito really needs his dark eye shadows
>>272450295And Tsubame, and Yumi, and Tomoe, and Uki, and Chizuru... Blame Watsuki's crush on Nakoruru.
A new season? Why I just heard of this?
>>272451292Probably because you're dumb.
>>272450663The virgin femcel sweaty kendo girl vs the most popular Oiran of Yoshiwara
huge improvement in terms of direction from last season. The Kyoto saga is peak battle shonen, hope more people get to enjoy it. also:>800 fucking seconds for captcha to loadthis site keeps getting worse and worse
>>272450265
>>272450295They don't though? The best girl and main character is a redhead.
>>272451999Sounds like you got hit by the new anti-spam filter.
>>272449639I just rewatched the respective episodes in the original. The artwork, the directing and the music are superior there. But the voice acting is kinda awkward and there's too much comedic shit with Misao that ruins all the seriousness.
>>272449639The first season was ass. I still can't get over how shitty the farewell scene was. The manga hits you with the scene, the original anime destroys you with it, the remembrance scenes from Reflection also hit you, the movie did what it could with it and managed to be effective. Remake fucking plasters the credits over it and to top it off they put that upbeat song in the background. This season looks promising, hope it keeps getting better.
>>272446390I think this is what I'm missing the most in the new anime, I wish they re-used some of the old tracks as >>272450082 said, they were great to set the mood and tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svpdo3KAtY4
>>272452519Your nostalgia goggles are on too tight
>>272452563nigga, the movies are not that old
>>272441027I'm scared about the pacing. Why just 23 episodes? I think with 25-26 it was doable but 23 seem few. Are they leaving the climax and the epilogue for a movie?
>>272452683They pretty much dealt with the whole abandoned village and Senkaku fight in a single episode, I think they can pull it off without missing much.
>>272450228>"Heart of Sword"Having him here and in Thunderbolt Fantasy would be way too much T.M. Revolution this season. Which would be a good thing.
>>272448124Breeding de gozaru?
>>272452811The Shingetsu Village was just 6 chapters in the manga anyway. The adapted the first chapter in the last episode, then 3 more chapters today and they have the Soujiro battle and the conclusion for the next episode. 2 episodes for this segment was expected. But there's 82 chapters left for just 19 episodes.
>>27245259530 years is old bro. That's 2 new generations.
>>272452916I see it stopping right after they sink the ship
>>272452896Sayō, de gozaru.
>>272453095what are you talking about? the last movie came out in 2021
>>272453104That's impossible. In the old anime the battleship stuff happened 10 episodes after Kenshin beat Senkaku. And the pacing was a bit slower there. No way it's gonna take them double the episodes to get there this time.
>>272453140you said, manga (30 years), original anime (30 years), and Reflection (25 years). And the movie (Tokyo Inferno) is already 10 years old.
>>272453221Easy 19 episodes of Misao talking about the Oban group, Aoshi vs Old guy, Kenshin breaking his sword, training with his master, Sano running around, Yahiko and Kaoru on a ship. There's a lot of stuff to still cover. And the remake is not afraid to edit, redo, rewrite, and move things around as proven in Season 1. I can see a Trust/Betrayal episode added in before they blow up the ship.Or even afterwards. End the ship around episode 20, and have the final 4 episodes be Trust/Betrayal
>>272453313That's... not gonna happen anon. Rengoku is gonna be like episode ~14. It happens way sooner than you remember. Don't say I didn't warn you.
>>272453243If I'm talking positively about something as recent as the movies (and this new season), why would it be nostalgia goggles?there's only two ruroken adaptations that I don't like, those weird Misao POV OVAs and the first season of the remake. hell, I think the revenge arc from the manga is pure ass, only redeemable by the remembrance chapters
>>272453681>I think the revenge arc from the manga is pure assL take.
>>272446390Better than last season. Not hitting the original anime's Kyoto arc OST, but they kept the better tracks from last season (Hiten Mitsurugi Style), dropped the worst tracks (any of the Western-y Battousai tracks), and added some generally solid new ones.Sad that the anime uses a lot of the lesser tracks more often last season while the better stuff gets used only once or twice. Yahiko's theme (https://youtu.be/pCAk0ozNCbU?si=oTX-jW7-9iP-xiHq) is pretty good (being influenced by "Kimi wa Dare wo Mamotte Iru" helps) but sadly it only plays twice.
>>272453848Shit wrong track.https://youtu.be/HFhxKUne5Ts?si=N8TScxHBJY4DVmlxYahiko's theme:
>>272453313I do like the idea of T/B being the final episodes. The OVAs together are two hours long so that's about 6 episodes. Gives the ship exploding at episode 18. There's just no way they can go to Kenshin vs Shishio
>>272453933It makes zero sense to have Kenshin's backstory in Kyoto.
>>272453968Why not? We get to see Kenshin and why he became the Battousai and even throw in Shishio's past in the last 10 minutes.
>>272454174as much as I dislike the revenge arc, the moment Kenshin decides to open up about his past is perfect
>>272454174Have you read the manga? The flashback doesn't exist in a vacuum like the OVAs did. It's Kenshin telling his story to certain characters because he had to. There's no reason to fuck up the story and put the flashback in Kyoto.
>>272442358I don't remember this in the old anime.
>>272454543It's not. Senkaku just tries to futilely lunge at Kenshin in the OG. Watsuki, apparently, wanted Senkaku to use his head in the fight but couldn't make it work. That's why he has the helmet now.
Adding the helmet is such an oddly welcome improvement.
>>272454864Cute wife
>>272448124Got a source? Img search don't do shit since it's cropped.
>>272454998That's Aitrash, son.
>>272441433You think they'll include that Shishio sex scene from the Kyoto OVA? AKA the only memorable addition from that?
>>272454918
>>272450352So this dude motivation is "Japan got woke"?
>>272455274And he wants to make Nippon great again. A powerhouse country that will be respected and feared by the entire world.
>>272454998Chapter 254.5
Sexosuke.
>>272453105This had better not be AIshit
>>272455560It is, pay attention to the fingers in the hand groping her ass.
>>272455036Lmao blind guy trying to spear Shishio while he's spearing his bitch was comedy gold.
>>272455036Excuse you, barefoot Misao was also worth it.
>Welcome back, Kenshin.>Oro?
>>272455036Sex with Shishio sounds so hot.
>>272442358Was the penis bulge necessary?
>>272456260Absolutely.
>>272455917Where are you getting these
>>272456538Based Shishio. Anime went to shit when Nips started caring about what would the West say.
>>272456969Well Shishio is the villain after all.
>>272441128He's so cool... Breed me daddy!
>>272457634Didn't he marry like 3 times?
THAT thing... inside Tsubame-chan's cunny... oro~
>>272450683soul>>272441027soul
>>272455870Misao's toes are awfully cute, that they are
Reminder that Sano won against Saitou but Kenshin never did.
>>272441128Saito and Shishio slay so hard
Guess what's coming up next episodeFUTAE NO KIWAMI!
>>272458104And Aoshi.
>>272458725Aoshi is an emo twink that needs correction by breeding
>>272459062Misao-dono will milk him dry.
>>272454794So Watsuki is making changes to the story even in this season? Are we gonna get Okina vs Saizuchi too?
>>272458021>I'm bleeding, making me the victor!
>>272458725Before Aoshi can kill anyone he has to give a 5 minute lecture on propriety and then spend a few minutes dancing around showing how fast he is. Once Saito decides to kill you, you get a sword through your face in about 2 seconds. That's the difference between a prodigy who was raised to be an elite leader from childhood and a guy who spent his youth killing people on the streets of Kyoto.
>>272459632>Before Aoshi can kill anyone he has to give a 5 minute lecture on propriety and then spend a few minutes dancing around showing how fast he is.Only in the reboot. In the manga and the og anime he chopped those monks immediately.
>>272459771God I hope she takes off her socks when they get to Aoiya.
sukuchi
Why does Kenshin always say oro?
>>272442358>honda vs ken
>>272455036Wait, how can Makoto Shishio even have sex? Weren't his sweat glands destroyed when he has burned alive? Sex would surely overheat him in no time because horny.
>>272461812no
>>272450295The hair is black. There's your black representation nigger.
>>272457634are you sure? he went bald before his 50s
Is there a reason why every anime has to be so bright nowadays?
>>272461953I guess the explanation is that sex doesn't overheat him as much as fencing.
>>272465351You would expect the friction from his "blade" entering and exiting the "sheath" to ignite it during sex. Isn't that his technique? His dick should catch fire.
>>272465512But that was because of his blade in particular, not something that'd happen with any sword.
>>272456969If I recall correctly either the manga or the original anime addressed how a lot of southeast Asia was under european control, I suppose Shishio thought it was inevitably going to happen with Japan too.
>>272456302ai
>>272465723the bakumatsu period happened in the first place because the Japanese were worried that Japan would become like colonized China or India and thus needed to become much stronger. Choshu military leader Shinsaku Takasugi visited Shanghai at one point and was disgusted at how subservient and meek the Chinese behaved towards the Europeans
tsubame's bald slit
>>272450352Shishio did nothing wrong
they better play the original anime's second OP song during this season's climax
>>272467758Nice
How many Misaos can you lift?
>>272459771Why doesn't Misao just rape Aoshi?
