Thinking about it, you might have fun with a Japanese Horror anthology thats been making waves here on KZbin for the last year. If you haven’t watched anything from the channel “Fake Documentary Q” you might treat yourself to that! They have some fun segments!

What you don't like "Trust and Betrayal"? Like the one considered one of the best anime OVA? I agree with the other ova's not being that great. But Trust and Betrayal though is so good that the live action took notes on it more on how to handle The Beginning story compared to how the manga portrayed them. Like Trust and Betrayal is so good people can watch them as standalone and they will still rate it as a great OVA. Yeah Reflection is more so bad mostly because it just end up doing its own thing but that does not take away from Trust and Betrayal since you can treat it as separate.

@@Snzn_7 A lot of the reasons are personal: I really love the Manga’s take on that arc and I honestly felt this uber-dark take wasn’t much to my liking. While The Beginning does take a lot of cues from it, I feel it managed to find a much better middle ground between that and being faithful to the source, especially when the character of Tomoe is concerned. At least the Live-Action version let her keep being a smartass instead of being constantly mysterious. More importantly though, I just don’t think it meshes well with the rest of the Anime. The OG Gallop series had energy and charm to it, this is slow and, in my honest opinion, rather dry. It would’ve worked fine if the idea was to provide contrast, but the fact that the later OVAs (Which carried over much of T&B’s staff) just copied its style wholesale just gives off the impression that they didn’t really understand what made the original story special: Kenshin’s supposed to be hopeful and optimistic, not a borderline nihilistic edge-fest. By contrast, at least The Beginning is more or less in tone with the rest of the movies, which makes it far easier for me to accept its changes. Not to mention it actually _does_ use its events to provide proper contrast, as you see that Kenshin in The Final is nothing like he was in The Beginning, versus Reflections and New Kyoto Arc, which pluck Bakumatsu-era Kenshin and puts him in the “Present” story.

@@sndark6241 I can see what is your problem with them, but for me at least regardless of what gripes I you with it, that does not discount what it does good. My 2 cents is don't just lump it together with Reflection and ask people to not talk about Trust and betrayal. You basically 'used" Reflection as the representative of the ova. For me I have gripes with the later half the OG anime due to an entire season of filler plus the pacing getting worse over time, but again I won't use those lowest point of the OG anime as the representative and use that to "dismiss: the entire series in its entirety. Like I will still consider the og series as the classic despite those flaws. Like I don't really get Akira myself and don't hail it as high as most people, but I can objectively see what it does good and will still recommend people to check it out. The live action overhauled Sanosuke's character but I am still fine with it since that version of Sanosuke work for the movies, in the same way Tomoe was tweaked to work for what Trust and betrayal was aiming for. Also again unlike the movies the ovas were like purposely separated from the tv series since cohesion to it was not like the priority. Since they made the third OVA to be in cohesion to the og series and have the style be more like the og but only modernized the visuals since its been almost a decade since they went back to the series. Also again Reflection was not bad due to its style, its because of how they handled the story and shove in their own original ending to the story. Like if people are gonna go check out the OG anime then I can suggest check out the OG in its entirety, they can skip the filler season if they want to, and they should still go check out Trust and Betrayal cause they are gonna miss out. I am framing this more in this way since people that might read our comments will surely be new to the franchise and honestly no one will recommend the manga at this point so I think its not really that great of an idea to give a preconception to people that "all" the ovas are bad and not even "worth talking about".

But you have to admit that they did Sanosuke badly.

Mechs are piloted humanoid machines. Unless your taking about the japanese toy origin, then Transformers are not mechs.

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