FWIW as much as this OVA sucks, it's partly the producers' fault: I think the OVAs are not trying to be adaptations, per se, but rather a sort of alternate Rurouni Kenshin for people who want a darker&edgier/"more realistic" version. Which is why even the first OVA series felt disconnected from the manga/TV series, the second OVA series had basically nothing to do with it, and this third one might as well be a different show, too. It's more "inspired by Watsuki Nobuhiro's Rurouni Kenshin" instead of an adaptation... which I wouldn't normally mind, except URGH, what the hell are you
doing to the characters I love, never mind the story?! ;__; )
The mess that is the actual writing in this OVA is, of course, an entirely different problem... (*cough*Okada*cough*)
I still can't get over the sex scene. Ouch! (I can't believe a woman wrote that.
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