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Old 2013-01-12, 05:06   Link #68
Xion Valkyrie
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Just finished watching the movie. The scriptwriter is a genius to be able to take pretty much all the arcs up to the Megumi arc and combine it into a movie without it feeling overloaded. The shuffling of events is genius, especially how the Jinie arc got moved and combined. It's also good that they kept the special moves. The movie versions are REALLY cool and still look mostly realistic while keeping their flavor from the manga.

Sanosuke's and Yahiko's backstories got cut though, but I guess Yahiko's is not particularly important and Sanosuke's could be written into the sequel. The main problem is Aoshi got completely cut. I guess they could still work him into the sequel but it'd be much harder since most of his motivations for wanting to kill Kenshin wouldn't be there anymore.
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