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Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Era Premium Box

Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Era Premium Box

List Price: $149.95
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The end of the series.
Review: Yes the series ends here, as much as I hate to admit it is the end of the rurouni kenshin series. These are just filler episodes but it still has the special qualaty that I like about Rurouni Kenhsin. There is romance,action, and comedy. There is no need to get this but if you are a complete Rurouni Kenshin like me get it because you just might go on a long road trip and you might need to watch something.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Lackluster ending to a great series
Review: Background: Up until this season, the TV show closely followed the storylines of the Kenshin manga in Shonen. When this series was being made, the final "Revenge" arc of the Manga which was as good (or better) than the Kyoto arc was still being written. So this season of filler episodes, not written by Watsuki Nobuhiro was put out, got canceled due to lousy ratings and we NEVER get to see the true end of Ruruoni Kenshin on TV (the Samurai X OAVs Trust+Betrayal present a condensed version of Revenge arc's flashbacks and fight with Enishi).

So how is this series? Well the stand-alone filler episodes are fine and some of the mini-arcs are OK but others (esp. the Christian rebellion) are plodding, without memorable opponents or battles and very little character maturation. It's like the writers wanted to wait for Watsuki to write the character developement for his protagonists so they ended up treading water for an entire season. They also make some forays into the supernatural, which seems contrary to everything in the series thus far (Wastuki always tooks pains to show there was no magic in his characters, only skill and a few tricks).
The final episode, which was never shown on TV seems to have been animated on the cheap. It is actually sort of poignant in a weird way but you may be dissapointed if you expected some kind of resolution.

Technically speaking: The discs are fine but don't have as many features as some of the earlier ones. The subs are excellent but the dubs are pretty bad and the background audio is muted a bit on the dubbed track. WAY too expensive! For the price of all three sets you can get a plane ticket to Hong Kong and get the 'questionable' box which puts 8 episodes per disc (which the domestic version could have easily done but then no one would pay $150.00 for a season on 4 discs...)

Rurouni Kenshin - Wandering Samurai Box (5 stars)
Legend of Kyoto Box (5 stars)
Tales of the Meiji (3 stars, plus maybe a half-star because I really liked the final opening/theme song)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The weird season.
Review: I love rurouni kenshin I own the ova's I have the motion picture and I also have the wandering samurai premium box. I am saving up my money for the legend of kyoto premium box I might buy it next month. I know people been disin this season because the story was weird or it was just filler episodes but I don't care about them because I know the series have never let me down and this season doesn't make a different. Once I get the Legend of Kyoto premium box at suncoast later, I will get this premium box right after, altough this season is a bit confusing and weird I will get this anyway.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hopefully not the last.
Review: Iam a real fan of rurouni kenshin from 2003-2004 and I'm glad its not short because I like collecting a lot of DVD's and to learn more about the series. This side of the story is called tales of the meiji era and it deals with a lot of religious stuff and hard to imagine why. There are alot of funny stuff like when an artist falls in love with Kaoru and other stuff like that. The only thing I don't like about this box set is that there are only 33 episodes in this which there were suppodes to be 34 in this side of the series. Either the creators are finnaly making the Jinchu Arc or they are just tryin to get you get pissed off and get the LAST DVD just for one DVD. I am not reccommending this unless you are a real rurouni kenshin fan Like I am. Get this if you want to I don't really care.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pretty good!!
Review: Season 3 doesn't seem like much when you heard the news of people thinking that they should've animated the arc from the manga, but they did this, and it's pretty good. I gave it a 4 because of the last arc called Feng Shui. It will make you go "uggh...." and "wha....." a lot, so that's why. The rest was pretty good. The filler episodes were VERY funny, especially the one when a paint artist falls in love with Kaoru. There are also 2 other arcs as I know of. I still have episodes 79-86 to watch so I'm pretty sure. The other arcs are the Christian and Divine Elixer arcs. The Christian arc is the best one, except the final battle sort of sucks. Anyhow, you'll see what I mean. Happy watching!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Filler episodes.
Review: This final season which is based on the meiji era are not actual episodes of the final season, the real last seaon was supposed to be The Jinchuu Arc a.k.a Revenge Arc which was based on the revenge of Enishi Kenshin's brother in law which was became with the marrage of Tomoe.

These filler episodes which was produced by sony are based on a religious time for Kenshin. For Kenshin has to face a group of Feug Sheui which want to take over Japan which also wants to take over ASIA. But thats later in the Meiji Era series there are really funny parts in it too but the the stories lack of a lot of stuff I mean what is the main problem I mean the sory for the Wnadering Samurai was just an introductory so it really didn't have a real story line that I can understand but this was just a real weird season. But even though it really isn't really worth the money I will get this seaon anyway because I am a real fan but unless you are a real fan of Rurouni Kenshin don't waste your money on this because Legend of Kyoto ended the right way and remember these are just filler episodes

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ...
Review: This im guessing is the third of the 3 sets of rurouni kenshin. it is a very good peice of the series but the price is horrible. i got the entire perfect box set including all episodes for 75 dollars on ebay. just so your not confused where this set fits in:
OVA #1-4
Rurouni Kenshin-Wandering Samurai
Rurouni Kenshin-Legend of Kyoto
Samurai X: The Movie
Rurouni Kenshin-Meiji Era
OVA #5-6

many people say different but i have watched the entire series from start to finish and this is the correct order.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Very Bad
Review: This really wasn't worth the money.... I have been a avid reader of the original manga and this does it no justice. What were they trying to do with this season....

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Untrue to the Series
Review: This third installment of Rurouni Kenshin is all right, but not great. It has the same good ole humor, but the enemies are very different. The previous episodes tried to be somewhat realistic in their action and events, nothing very magical. In the Meiji Era, though, the events were extremely far fetch, from finding the Elixir to the flow of this huge electic wave of Chi running all over Japan. All strings to reality were chopped off.

The Legend of Kyoto had a fantastic ending with a huge, epic battle. Unfortunately, the series never reached the same amount of adrenaline in action. It didn't even come close. I also greatly missed Saitou. I never saw him again after Legend of Kyoto. He made the set of characters perfect with his awesome lack of pity.

If you want to keep a good impression of Ruruoni Kenshin, do not buy this DVD box. If you must know how it ends, then borrow it from a friend.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: There is no fourth season.
Review: to get right to the point, as far as i have researched there is not a fourth season. the series is ended with the ova Reflections. in reflections it explains about enishi, and and gives a final solution to the series. i'm not going to spoil it by telling what however. i can only rate off what i have read and previewed, so sorry if you don't like it. i'm still going to get the third bowset.


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