Rurouni Kenshin is based in Meiji Era Japan, where samurai are common. From the description on Crunchyroll, it seems the major civil wars have finally ended, replaced by an unsettling peacefulness. A former assassin tasked with enforcing this uneasy peace eventually has enough and wanders his way into starting his life over, preferably not as a murderer. This is the story of an antihero searching for redemption, one which has been told many times before. I'll admit that I'm not too interested in it, but for an older show to be so well-renowned, it has to at least be decent.
Rurouni Kenshin - Episode 1
0:00 Most dubbed anime have terrible dubs, so let's see if the pattern holds true here.
0:03 Starting straight off with the opening theme. Pretty nice guitar shredding here, I'm going to like...
0:14 WHAT THE $@#& IS THIS SHIT?! Now it's some sissy pop song about freckles or something.
0:30 Wow, I totally got trolled. Nice one there, Rurouni.
1:00 ...you're serious about this, aren't you?
1:36 Okay it's over.
1:40 Background about our main character as covered earlier.
2:23 And the episode officially starts in Tokyo, as all anime do.
2:42 Some stupid girl is seriously threatening the most deadly assassin ever. This will not end well for her.
3:00 And he effortlessly dodges, jumps onto a roof, and it collapses.
3:30 He has a reverse-blade sword! That must
3:55 Apparently someone claiming to be the assassin has been murdering people all around.
4:30 And this stupid girl charges this guy too.
4:45 Naturally, saved by the goofy idiot with the backwards sword.
5:25 And the bandit gets away.
You know, this is the exact same plot setup as Trigun.
6:20 So, the wandering fool brought her to her home, a dojo, and made friends with her younger sisters who technically aren't.
8:05 Ms. Reckless decides to let the joker stay at her place as long as he likes
8:35 Her motive is that the murderer is claiming to use her family's style of swordfighting, which is defaming her family.
9:30 Also, it just cost the dojo its last students.
It's obvious at this point...
9:45 FANSERVICE! Yes, we really needed to see suicide girl taking a bath.
10:25 Naturally he walks in on her.
Anyway, it's obvious at this point that the traveling lunatic is going to turn out to be the real assassin and beat the crap out of (not kill) the real assassin.
12:50 So, the wanderer seems to have escaped from the shed he was locked in after he walked in on her. Oh no! I wonder what he could possibly be doing.
15:00 The murder's motive really is because he just likes killing all that much and for some stupid reason blames the girl for his breaking a thumb. Lame.
15:20 Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!
16:30 This is the most cliche "she's about to die" scene ever. Come here and get this over with already.
16:50 Thank you.
17:30 Wow, he's actually incredibly dark when he's serious.
18:00 Magic Ninja Warping!
18:45 And they finally figure out that he's the real guy.
19:00 The idiotic murderer challenges the most deadly assassin ever.
19:10 And loses instantly.
20:00 The wanderer leaves, but then the girl decides to yell at him and beg him to stay. Then changes her mind five times like a true Tsundre.
21:20 "Goofy" slapstick ends the episode.
Really? This is Rurouni Kenshin? This is one of the best animes ever, one that I have to watch? Sorry, but I'm not impressed. The ending song is actually pretty good and the dub actually isn't terrible, but overall this show is not really that good. It gets very cliche at points, though it does some things right, such as the main character actually being extremely dark inside; this communicates he has a sincere desire to mend for his past, yet isn't naive at all in how he goes about it. If I get bored enough, I'll watch the next episode, but overall I was disappointed in it, if only because it was so hyped up.
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