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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Teaser Trailer

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Did Kenshin just run over the wall and do a backflip? Goddammit.

Eh? A wallflip is nothing. Tons of semi-decent martial artists can do that. People were lighting up swords and creating vacuums with their swords in the anime.
 
I'm pretty sure he did crazy shit in the tomoe arc too.
The prologue OVA's weren't that farfetched actually.

Trailer seemed hype. Sano and Kaoru look kinda too old compared to (I assume) Megumi who looks younger than both of them but are actually older. Who were the other characters though?
 
I'm sure he did crazier stuff in the anime.

Or were you hoping this would be like the prologue OVA's?

Eh? A wallflip is nothing. Tons of semi-decent martial artists can do that. People were lighting up swords and creating vacuums with their swords in the anime.
Kenshin's style in the anime was a lot more subdued than wallflips and leaps into the air. The whole point of his character was that he was quick and to the point, unlike all the other bozos he had for opponents.
 
The prologue OVA's weren't that farfetched actually.

Trailer seemed hype. Sano and Kaoru looks kinda too old compared to (I assume) Megumi who looks younger than both of them but are actually older. Who were the other characters though?

so they neutered the tomoe arc for the ova? thats sad seeing as how he was more prone to killing at the time.

as for the characters,i definitely recognized jinei, and i hope that old dude wasnt saito....
 
Kenshin's style in the anime was a lot more subdued than wallflips and leaps into the air. The whole point of his character was that he was quick and to the point, unlike all the other bozos he had for opponents.

I remember him bouncing off a wall, and spinning through the air in the anime.
 
The prologue OVA's weren't that farfetched actually.

Trailer seemed hype. Sano and Kaoru looks kinda too old compared to (I assume) Megumi who looks younger than both of them but are actually older. Who were the other characters though?
Jin'e Udou:
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so they neutered the tomoe arc for the ova? thats sad seeing as how he was more prone to killing at the time.

as for the characters,i definitely recognized jinei, and i hope that old dude wasnt saito....
No the OVA was definitely bloody. It's just more realistic in the sense that he doesn't jump incredible heights or uses any techniques.
 
lols I was totally expecting this to be American made, and having a white dude play Kenshin. I'm not sure how exciting this looks, but at least it didn't meet that expectation.
 
Who's the guy in the white coat? Assuming the guy in grey in glasses a few seconds later is Shishio's right hand man? (Name escapes me.)
 
The guy in glasses is Kanryuu Takeda. People may remember him as the dude with the gatling gun.
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The guy with facial hair that's smiling is Yamagata Aritomo:
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Yeah Saitou doesn't look awesome enough but I think it's a good realistic interpretation of him. If it's Yamagata in white holding Kenshin's hands I suppose it makes sense. Looks kinda creepy though. Kinda seems like they omitted Yahiko. I assume they're going to finish the movie with a cliffhanger for a possible sequel.

Oh yeah so fucking glad they gave him the dark blue kimono instead of the red one.
 
Wow, looks like it has reasonable lighting, directing, decent production values, not what I was expecting from an anime adaptation.
 
So Yahiko is in. Megumi's actress looks freaking young, like 17 or something wow. I wonder why they're introducing Kanryu if Oniwabanshu isn't in? Saitou's actor looks cooler in his actual picture than how they dressed him up for the show :lol

EDIT: Kaoru's actress is actually 18 years old so it's quite fitting. Also holy shit Megumi's is actually 26.
 
hmm somehow Kenshin looks too "young" imo... i know he's pretty young in the anime as well but he always had a mature aura about him that this actor seems to lack...

then again it's only a couple of shots so the actual movie might make him look better!

glad they're making one at all i guess
 
So I am assuming based on the cast that this is going to be a live-action adaptation of the first arc of the comic/show.
 
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