Deadman wonderland or assassination classroom if you haven't already...
I'm sorry, but what?
Saying he shouldn't be identified as a samurai because he wasn't born into a certain class honestly makes no sense. This is a fictional story and that's therefore irrelevant. Within his fictional story, the fictional character is a samurai. You honestly might as well try to argue that Naruto's not a ninja because he wears bright clothes, screams all the time, and can use magical attacks powered by chakra.
He was no longer an assassin, but continued operating as a samurai based on the school in which he was taught. And fun fact: Hitokiri Battosai is taken from the real world Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu who were a group of FOUR SAMURAI who filled the exact same role in history that Kenshin does in the show. Kenshin is specifically based off of Genzai Kawakami, who was again a samurai, from his appearance to his sword style. Arguing that he's not a samurai within his series makes zero sense.
How would calling it by its real name confuse most viewers, when some versions of the anime series were called "Ruroni Kenshin"?
Wouldn't say the show failled in America at all. It received a total of 3 seasons, had high ratings, and earned great reviews. That's not what I call a failure. Whether or not you think English Dubbing is good is entirely a matter of opinion, so I see no reason to debate about it. The filler arcs they threw in however were widely believed to be a drop in quality, which Nobuhiro agreed with, stating that while he liked the first, he couldn't stand the next two, which then directly led to it being discountinued because those were the ones that received the worst ratings. The voice acting didn't change. The animation didn't change. The quality of the writing changed, taking a major plummet, so the show was cancelled/shortened from its intended length. You literally see this all the time with anime and it's as simple as that. In its prime, the show was doing just fine and competing capablly with every other anime that Toonami featured. The show also had to be "dumbed down" because it was being shown to children in America and that level of violence in a children's tv show is generally not socially accepted. Had that violence been left in then realize that the show never would've been aired at all. This is again something you see with damn near every anime that appears on American television. Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam, Ruroni Kenshin, etc. They all do it. If that was the reason for shows failing then 1)It would have been noted and corrected by now by the people creating these shows and 2)you wouldn't have any anime becoming popular in America. Despite that, all the series I just mentoned? Which had the issue of censoring/changing scenes to reduce the violence? Are widely viewed as classics in both America and Japan. As to why a show fails that's something we all have to deduce for ourselves, since its not as if studios regularly release their reasons for cancelling soemthing. However, i'll always argue that its not an accident that the series ended after they stopped adapting the original storylines and began creating new ones, which go to any fansite and you will find them to be considered the worst arcs of the series.
And your copy of the OVA isn't the release for the American market, hence it has the Japanese name.
Back in the day I was always drawing DBZ characters.
I wish I could. I'm a writer that's writing a story but I have no talent whatsoever at art
Still not sure if it's kaido & the shogun or if he is the shogun either way his whole crew is vicious & we've only seen 1/3 of his main trioZoro to wano kuni and luffy after big Mom? That would be epic af
Yeah it's on there but it's a shame we havent got a second season
Brah I need to see
I read it as Kaido was a shogun from Wano.
