Rurouni Kenshin - Battle in the Moonlight, Vol. 2

Starring:Mayo Suzukaze, Miki Fujitani, YÃ»ji Ueda, MÃ®na Tominaga, Mika Doi, Yoku Shioya, Kaori Yuasa, Noriko Namiki, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yoshito Yasuhara, Tomo Sakurai, Akio Ã”tsuka, Yasuyoshi Hara, RyÃ»nosuke Ã”bayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi (II), Mitsuru Miyamoto, Masanori Ikeda, Taeko Kawada, Minoru Inaba, Norito Yashima, Rurouni Kenshin
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Kaeko Sakamoto
Studio: Anime Works
Product Type: DVD

Description

It's disaster for Kenshin when he runs into Jine, a Manslayer from the Revolution. Jine has always wanted a chance to fight the Battousai, but Kenshin's refusal to kill makes the victory too easy. Determined to bring back the Manslayer he had always heard about, Jine uses Kaoru to re-awaken the murderous anger hidden inside Kenshin!

Customer Reviews:

move over inuyasha.......2007-02-04

This year wil celebrate the seventh anniversary of this sho being on dvd. This show aired a long time ago on cartoon network bac sometime during the middle of my days in middle school or my early highschool year when I was a freshman. This show was a decent sucess last for at least two seasons. If you are Runouni Kenshin fan I recommend you collect these. A word of advie since the seasonbox sheets have been avilable for a while and are gettin scare they can sometimes be expensive to get a whole season. Rather than by the whole season I recommend you get the seperate indvidual volumes thagt have about 3 to 4 25 minute episode on them per volume. I don't recommend you get a whole season at once unless you are wiling to pay somewhere in between 30 to 100 dollars per set with the ship fee included. This series takes place in newer more modern day Japan in the mide 1800s rather than back in the more feudal day Japan of the late 1400s and early 1500s. This is the seconnd volume and contains episode 5-8 of season I. A word of warming due to heavy gory, heavy old school samuria fighting action sequences and the occasional curse word thrown in I do not recommend this anima series to any one under the age of 13. If you like this I also recommend the hit Inuyasha and Ranmma 1/2 series. For those of you between the age of 7 and 12 I recommend Pokemon battle frontier and Zatch bell. Join Kenshin as he goes through a series of herroic battle that will have you standing up and shout for more.

Better than the first disc........2006-01-03

This disc has 1 good ep and 3 great ones.

The first one is about the fight beween Kenshin and Zanza

The second and third are about Jin-E

the 4th is the start of the megumi arc,

a very good set with good features.

Marked Improvement Over Volume One.......2005-04-03

Ruroni Kenshin: Vol. 2: Battle in the Moonlight contains four episodes, #5 - #8. These episodes are markedly serious and violent, with sadness and betrayal. The government of Japan during the new Meiji period is capable of horrific things. I appreciate the lessons in this DVD. There is also fine, memorable dialouge. One example is from the third episode. "A manslayer is always one. He can never be anything else his whole life." The backgrounds are much easier on the eyes and more realistic. The night skies and the full moon are painted very well. You actually shiver when the night wind rustles the trees. The backdrops are not overcolored with technicolor. However, Kaoru's kimonos are too bright; the colors should be more subtle.

Episode 5: "The Reverse-Rlade sword vs The Zanbatu" - The young, mighty (mighty hunky, too) Sanosuke fights Kenshin over a matter of honor. In this episode, we see the poignant memories that have driven Sano to this day.

Episode 6: "The appearance of Kurogasa" - This episode is part one of two. The feared and powerful Kurogasa is an unstoppable serial killer. He is targeting politicians. The chief of police asks Kenshin's help in bringing Kurosaga down. But Kurosaga knows Kenshin very well. Can Kenshin defeat this wicked creature without defeating himself?

Kurogasa has some wicked Shinobi tricks up his sleeve. He would have fit in perfectly as a character in Ninja Scroll. Kurogasa is drawn that way, acts that way, and speaks that way.

Episode 7: "Deathmatch under the moon" - Breathtaking conclusion to Episode 6.

Episode 8: "A New Battle " - A beautiful, mysterious woman asks Kenshin for help. Megumi is not all she seems - but is Kenshin too blinded by her beauty to see? Sano suspects the worst of "the little fox." This episode has reference to drugs, namely opium. The villians chasing the Fox are also great Ninja Scroll shinobi. One of them however, looks too much like the Hulk to be believable. Giving him rat teeth makes him look silly, not formidable.

This episode has a ton of laughs. Kaoru is insanely jealous as Megumi fawns over "Dear Kenshin."

Part two of Rurouni Kenshin(By Joey).......2005-02-03

Sanosuke is a kinda a FIGHTER. He meets Himaru Kenshin at a restarunt bar when theiveing thugs try to hurt Kamiya Karou. Kenshin takes the hit.What'll happen when Sanosuke finds out Kenshin is the legendary Bai'tosai......?
I also wrote reviews on:

rk-Legendary Swordsman
rk-Shadow of the Wolf
sx-The Motion Picture
sx-Reflection
sx-OVA trilogy
yuyu- the movie:Poltergeist Report
sx-Trust
inu- movie 1: affections touching across time

A foreshadowing Volume.......2003-07-29

This DVD has episodes which meanings cannot be fully understood until seeing more of the Kenshin saga. The battle between Sonosuke and Kenshin is very entertaining and critical to the story as this will not be the last time that they fight. The episodes regarding Jinah and the battle in the moonlight show how Kenshin is battleing with his inner Batosai and how what he does will effect Kaoru. It forshadows the romance that will brew between the two of them, especially the "Protect the one you love" title. Kaoru is the main person bringing him back to who he is and not the murderer inside himself. This is an excellent DVD that will keep you at the edge of your seat with its fighting and romantic atmosphere. When first watching Kenshin on cartoon network this is the show that got me hooked and began a long binge on Rurouni Kenshin. I highly recommend it!

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