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chipparai
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First photo of Kenshingumi is lovely
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The_way67
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I watched the whole clip! It looks soo good!!!!!
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Knoepfchen
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I wonder what Shinomori's part will be in these movies, given that the character wasn't introduced in the Tokyo arc. Will he still get a good backstory and be involved in finale in some way? I surely hope so. Would be a shame, the actor looks like he could pull of the character's intensity quite well. Also, the composer will have to do a pretty good job to match or surpass the epicness of the series' battle music. Still, I wish I could see this on the big screen somewhere around here, but I highly doubt it.
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poonk
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I'm so excited about these sequels, as in, I get goosebumps watching the trailers. The first film was ridiculously good-- I showed it to a friend who was totally unfamiliar with the story/character and she loved it.
Now I can't decide about which new cast member I'm more excited: Kamiki Ryunosuke as Sojiro, or Iseya Yusuke as Aoshi... |
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vashfanatic
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From clips in the full trailer, he's definitely in the final battle against Shishio, just like in the manga. From his character profile at the website, it seemsspoiler[ the other members of the Oniwabanshu may already be dead by the time the movie begins.] There hasn't been much of Aoshi, Misao, or Okina in any of the 6 and a half minutes of total footage they've released, but then again, two movies together are going to be probably about 4 hours, so they may just be keeping that for later.
The new soundtrack comes out on July 23rd, so I guess we'll find out then. I have mixed feelings about the anime's soundtrack in general - love some of it, find other parts annoying - but yeah, this is a pretty good track. I have been obsessing over these films because I saw the first one in the theater, loved it, and am really frustrated that Warner Brothers show no sign so far of giving this series a North American release outside of a few festival showings. I would very much like to not pirate it - if they don't want to spend money on a DVD/Blu-Ray release, then at least let me download it off iTunes! |
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Knoepfchen
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Aw, thanks for the trailer, no idea how I missed that, but it really does look like they'll be spoiler[fighting him together]. Nice.
If the Oniwabanshu are spoiler[already dead from the start, I suppose we will start off with dark Shinomori. Will he be working for Shishio right away and then switch sides? I would have loved seeing him fall into darkness, though. Well, it's not his movie. ] I keep entertaining the faint hope they might have a screening at the Manga Salon in Barcelona in November, Kenshin's rather famous here, all things considered, they even did a catalan dub for the first movie. Not really a huge market to begin with, which proves the character is quite well known and beloved. |
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7jaws7
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Damn it, I shouldn't have watched that trailer…now I'm all hyped up in the middle of the day!
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vashfanatic
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Oh yeah, that one shot of spoiler[the four of them together against Shishio] makes me break out in fan-squealing every time I see it.
I actually saw the first film in Japan because I was living there at the time. I hadn't been planning on it, since Kenshin has so much nostalgia for me (one of the first anime I ever saw, and the one that really hooked me on the medium) and I was terrified of being disappointed. But I kept seeing the life-size posters of the characters at the cinema, all looking exactly like how I'd imagine live action versions of them to look, and thankfully I finally caved. Unfortunately I cannot afford to fly all the way to Japan just to watch the next two films. 
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