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3.0étoiles sur 5
for younger audiences, Jui 22 2004
if you've been reading the rest of the reviews and the synopsis that amazon provided then you already know what the series is about, so i'll just get right to it:i bought this dvd after reading reviews on amazon and hearing a friend at work mention it, and since i'm making decent money this summer i decided to splurge and buy it. i was excited when it came in the mail, expecting this samurai guy going on adventures with awesome sword-fighting scenes. what i got was a mediocre anime, somewhat of a cross between dragonballz and pokemon. let me explain: i would have absolutely loved this show if i were 12-14 or so. this anime is strongly not recommended for 18+ or older audiences like myself. 3 things ruined this dvd for me: 1. poor action scenes. don't listen to all the kiddies jumping on the bandwagon in the reviews above saying that there are "totally awesome fight scenes!!!" because there aren't. in a typical fight scene, what you see are a character (usually kenshin) jump into the air and pull his sword back like he's going to hit something, then the screen turns black and you see white "sword-slashing" marks go across the screen, then you see the bad guy fall down hurt. you rarely see footage of them ACTUALLY fighting, just the jump-sword slash marks-bad guy falls down. repeat. no blood.
2. the unnecessary goofy faces. they make these bug-eyed weird faces to try to bring out humor, but it isn't funny. it takes away from the cool samurai character that kenshin is supposed to be. kenshin does this at times where all the girl did was talk loud...why the goofy face for that? this happens quite a bit and get annoying.
3. the absolute WORST thing that ruined this series for me was that listening to kenshin talk was like listening to yoda (from star wars) talk. no joke. i don't remember any quotes, but it's similar to,"you shouldn't do that, no you musn't." and, "you should do this, you should." i think they were trying to make kenshin sound like the old, wise samurai guy, but it's just really, really annoying. i am sorry that this review was almost all negative, but if you're younger, you will probably enjoy this series. it's a cool, fun adventure and i know for a fact i would have loved this series if i were under 12. but if you're older, expecting a cool samurai show with a lot of cool fight scenes, expect to be disappointed. buy ninja scroll instead.
ADD 1-2 STARS IF YOU'RE YOUNGER AND LIKED DRAGONBALL-Z AND THE PREVIEW LISTED FROM AMAZON APPEALS TO YOU.
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