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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:40 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:57 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:28 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:15 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:35 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:46 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:56 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:06 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:00 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:31 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:39 am
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No one dislikes Seisouhen more than I do, but it helps to understand the spirit in which it was made. The manga was made in the tradition of shonen manga, which usually have happy endings. Watsuki believed the essence of shonen manga is "smiling faces and a happy ending".
The anime/OVA director, Kazuhiro Furohashi had a vision of RuroKen as a historical period epic. While he was obligated to honor the manga style in his work with the anime, he was given more freedom with the OVAs. Thus you see the story "reworked" in Tsuiokuhen and Seisouhen to a much more sombre tone.
Seisouhen was portraying Kenshin and Kaoru, not as Watsuki's manga characters but as the tragic characters in the tradition of many Japanese love stories, such as Madame Butterfly.
Kenshin is the samurai husband, walking the path of Bushido, which often means neglecting his own family. Kaoru is the good Japanese wife, who follows her husband into death at the end.
It's also more historically accurate. Many samurai husbands did leave their wives and children alone for months while they were off serving their daimyo and fighting. Kenshin in this story is portrayed as the samurai and the Meiji government is his "daimyo".
Even today, many husbands live separately from their wives and children so they can be close to their jobs while their families remain close to their in-laws. The husband sends money and gifts home to the wife and children and visits them on holidays.
So, as far as being a Japanese period drama, Seisouhen is historically and culturally very accurate. But as a RuroKen story, it sucks a**.
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