i want to know wut is everyone's favorite samurai anime. mine is rurouni kenshin, which has everything dat samurai does. great action and story too.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2003

Answers

Kenshin. Haven't watched Samurai Deeper Kyo yet.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2003

Kenshin rocks!!samurai deeper kyo too

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2003

Has anyone seen Tsukikageran?

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2003

Rurouni Kenshin is by far my favorite, and has anyone heard of vagabond?

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2003

SDK all the way.....Samuri Deeper kyo is hella good...noone knows of it tho..

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2003

kenshin aswell

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2003

rurouni kenshin of course! i duno if you can call real bout high school a samurai anime, but its nice to see a girl kick some butt once in a while with a sword! :)

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2003

kenshin is good, too but i like demon eyes kyo in samurai deeper kyo~~~

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2003

I LOVE SAMURAIS!! HAHA! SDK AND KENSHIN ARE THE BOMB!! I love onime- no Kyo and Kenshin... Real 'bout High School's ok... girls fighting is...er-- ok... i'm a girl, so (to those who know RBHS) i prefer Shizuma Kusangi to fight!! That guy is HOTT!!!!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2003

OH! I LOOOVE RURONI KENSHIN! lol. That is so cool. And the best thing is, it gets on right as I get home! ^^ lol!

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2003

Rurouni Kenshin.......

She was, in no particular order; a pawn, a bargaining chip, a traitor, and, perhaps most importantly, a woman in love.

From the beginning, Tomoe and Kenshin's relationship was doomed to end in blood and tears. Months before they'd even first caught a glimpse of one another, Battousai Himura killed Tomoe's fiancee during his assasination of the Lord her fiancee was with. It was in this battle that Kenshin received the first half of his cross-scar-- though his skill was far greater than that of the man, he succeeded in wounding him because of his sheer determination. His last words, in fact, are of Tomoe-- words that are cut short by the Battousai's blade going through his throat.

It is months after this that Battousai meets Tomoe.

She is slightly drunk and has just come from a regular pub, and Kenshin is fighting off an assasination attempt by an oniwabanshuu member

(if you remember, this is shinomori aoshi's eventual company-- when this was all happening he was still a young boy.)

Kenshin cuts the assasin from forhead to crotch in mid-air, and blood fountains and splashes on Tomoe and her clothes. Being slightly tipsy, she says nothing at first, but then her eyes go wide and she whispers, "You make it rain blood..." and then passes out in Kenshin's arms.

Kenshin takes her back to the current hideout inn that the Ishinshishi have occupied, and houses her there for several weeks. They have the beginnings of a romance going, here, but it's mostly one-sided. Tomoe feels sorry for this assasin-child, and she treats him with a certain tenderness when he she is around him. Kenshin shows no emotion, but I suppose he doesn't mind the attention, since he permits it often enough.

The night the Shinsengumi wage full attacks on the Ishinshishi, Kenshin's superior tells him to leave Kyoto, and quickly.

The Shinsen are hunting the undercover Ishin, and they don't stand a chance against so many. Since Kenshin is with Tomoe at the time, his superior tells them to pose as husband-and-wife and hide out until he comes for them.

They agree, and after a few close calls, they get out of Kyoto and hide out in a rural village. For a long time, they are remarkably domestic. Kenshin tells Tomoe that he cannot 'pretend' to be a husband-- when he marries her it is because he loves her. (Well, he doesn't say it in so many words, but... ^_^;;)

Tomoe eventually falls in love with him, and just when they are content, someone visits her. It is one of the leaders of the opposing faction-- also her dead fiancee's boss. He tells her that Battousai killed her fiancee, and that they want her to tell them his weakness.

Tomoe does not wish to tell them, so she lies and says that they should attack when he is asleep. The leader instantly knows this is a lie, and says that perhaps his weakness is not a *what*, but a *who*. They kidnap Tomoe and tell Battousai where they have taken her.

Kenshin's old boss comes back and tells him that the spy before was Tomoe all along-- and that he should just leave her and return to his duties. He cannot, however, and walks into the trap he knows is waiting.

He is badly wounded during the course of his journey towards her (bombs in the forest, surprise swordsmen, etc.) and is bleeding badly when he comes

up against the final challenge: the leader guarding Tomoe.

For a long moment it looks as if Kenshin is losing the battle, but then he gathers enough strength for a final blow: hiten mitsurugi style.

Unknowingly, Tomoe thinks she is going to watch Battousai be killed before her eyes-- she runs forward just as Kenshin leaps into the air and brings down his sword in a slash that would've cleaved his opponent in half.

It goes right through her, cutting her mortally and killing his enemy. He holds her, then, paralyzed in fear, and as she bleeds to death, she smiles for him one last time, takes her knife, and cuts his cheek with a short, diagonal slash. The cross scar is born.

After this Kenshin returns to his duties and paves the way for the new Meiji Era. After shedding so much blood, he then takes up the sakabatou (reverse-edged sword) and vows to avenge the deaths he'd caused by never killing again.

Tomoe is never forgotten, and even after he has met Kaoru, he still visits her grave after defeating Shishio Makoto (an especially hard battle where he almost died).

In my opinion, while he and Tomoe didn't really have much of a background (a foundation built on lies is no foundation, at all), there was a time when they truly loved each other. When it became about each other, and not so much about their separate factions. But like any true Romeo-and-Juliet plot, who knows what would've happened if they'd lived? Their story seems a lot more towering and romantic then it actually was, and even though I can say that they loved each other in the end, I doubt they would've had much of a future together if she'd *lived*.

Relationships based on stress don't really give people that much time to get to *know* each other-- they're usually so swept up in emotion and everything going on around them that they cling to the closest friendly face possible. Tomoe was a spy, Battousai was a killer-- there was love, yes, but no matter how you look at it, there was no way it could've ended happily.

Kenshin and Kaoru had the chance to be friends and get to know each other before they *chose* to marry, and as such they knew the ins- and-outs of each other *so* well. When Kenshin said that he wanted to leave again, Kaoru let him go-- by this time she knew him so well that there was only undertanding in her eyes. No more tears, no more regret. She simply said that she loved him, and then she let him go.

With Kenshin and Tomoe, they were never given a chance to get to know each other that well. Even when they were on hiatus in the mountain village, both still bore all-too fresh scars-- they hardly spoke to one another, and simply found comfort in each other's silent presence.

So in other words, while I believe that Tomoe and Kenshin *did* love each other, it was *Kaoru* who was Kenshin's true love. She may not have been his first, but she was the woman who made him whole.

-- Anonymous, May 03, 2003

geez, i just asked for people's favorite samurai anime, not the summary of it. plus i think u just copy and pasted it from a website....., but if u didnt, i feel sorry for u. just answer the question, dat's all. im a big rurouni kenshin fan, but i dont write summaries of it in simple question like diz.

-- Anonymous, May 03, 2003

I like Rurouni Kenshin also. I also like Samurai X too, even though I only seen clips of it, but I still think it looks good.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2003

You DO realise they're the same show, don't you?

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2003

yeah i do.and i agree with most all of them.Kenshin all the way!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2003

rurouni kenshin. himura is da true samurai

-- Anonymous, June 18, 2003

Rurouni Kenshin. and Samurai Deeper Kyo too. they are prolly the best or only good samurai animes out there. if anyone knows any other good samurai animes, please recommend me some. thank you

-- Anonymous, June 18, 2003

Rurouni Kenshin and SamuraiX (Because I haven't seen so much Samurai series yet)

^^v

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2003