I hate the Rurouni Kenshin Ending
I just watched (finally) the ending of Rurouni Kenshin, and aside from the fact that I almost bawled my head off, I quite disappointed that it was so sad. Poor Kenshin. If you read the manga plus watched the movie, you’ll find that the movie ending is quite uneccesary, after all, WE all forgive Kenshin right?
Well you see in the manga, Kaoru wasn’t just kidnapped by Enishi, Enishi made it so that Kaoru looked dead, of course with the help of some other people. That, and a few comebacks from Tomoe, I think made Kenshin free of his burden. In the end of the manga, yes they got married, had Kenji, and it ended somewhat with the illusion that they’d live happily ever after.
It may sound corny, but admit it, everyone loves happy endings. Truth is, I could’ve lived with the ending that the manga left me with, although back then I felt like there was still something missing. But this ending, it just didn’t justify the whole series altogether. It’s like the whole story was for nothing because in the end, only in his death had Kenshin been able to attain atonement for his sins as a Hitokiri, and Kaoru, was just some martyr waiting for him to come back.
It turned into a twisted version of Romeo and Juliet combined with the Notebook. I like both, because it was really sweet that Juliet and Romeo committed suicide when they thought that each other had died, and I like the Notebook, because even they died together (awww). But this, it was just too sad. (tears!)
I don’t know it was too sad for me. The whole series transferred from serious to funny in differing intervals, but this one was just plain sad. To wrap it all up, this ending might have done good for another story, but I don’t think it justifies Rurouni Kenshin.
