I Deserve to Rant! - a Rurouni Kenshin Densetsu no Saigo Hen FLAME

Spoilers like the world will end. Read further if you dare. You have been warned. 

These are all at the top of my head.  I am flaming mad, angry, disappointed, beyond forgiveness. Many will get angry (well, those who will read this anyway) because of what I will write.

I hated the second installment of the Rurouni Kenshin sequel. I’m talking about Densetsu no Saigo Hen (The Legend’s End). I know I should be giving this an objective eye, but hey, I feel like making it personal, all right? This is not a review, this is a major PERSONAL RANT. I cannot give a proper one, I’m still so pissed I want to curse here in my native tongue. 

I could have let everything else pass, - the changes in the plot, the freaking long Hiko- baka deshi interaction, the way I did not like Masaharu’s acting at all (Kill me now Masha fans, I hated his portrayal), all those flashbacks Otomo supposedly hated doing but apparently reused several times, some rehashed fight scenes, Okina dying (rather, presumed dead), unimportant scenes that could have been discarded, the too-short underwhelming Kenshin-Soujirou fight scene, no Kamatari ass-kicking!, Cut off scenes of Kenkao hugging, all five ganging up on Shishio making Shishio look less strong than he is and making Kenshin less capable of defeating him (when in fact it was actually Kenshin who was “ganged up” on, individually in the manga),  and THE AMAKAKERU DONE LESS THAN SPECTACULAR THAN IT DESERVES. All of these, I can forgive, all these changes I am willing to forgo, to accept, to let go. 

But don’t take away the essence of the story…. Don’t take away Kenshin’s reason for changing his views on his worth, his life - the thing that made him want to live thus allowing him to do the succession (scrap that, the secret ultimate) technique, that made him stand up and live to defeat Shishio even when he felt tired and he was dying. That memory of KAORU, the girl who came all the way to Kyoto from Tokyo to see him, that short flashback, don’t take that away from us.

But they did. And all the essence of Ruruouni Kenshin’s story went down the drain with it. T__________________T (looks around for a knife to stab someone, something, anything). I was waiting for the scene that never came… And I HAD WTF ACROSS MY FOREHEAD  THE WHOLE TIME I WAS WAITING - and all the curses in the world running through my brain. FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck

Now that I’ve told you the worst part…. Let me just say I appreciate that Team OTOMO is tickling the viewer’s interest for a Jinchuu - how many times can one watch those effing flashbacks without getting nauseated (did I say I’m making this post personal and not at all objective?) and special mentions of Akira and the crossscar, but no backstory given for the second scar. Maybe there will be Jinchuu. Maybe there should be a Jinchuu. No wait, THERE SHOULD BE A JINCHUU, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THEY WILL REDEEM THEMSELVES OF THIS FOLLY.