Rurouni Kenshi and Remakes Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 03:29:35 No. 110686
The new rurouni kenshin looks flippin
GOOD (Although not on the level of Tsuioku good but that's impractical). Which is nice for me because depending on how much they adapt this is probably up in my top 3 greatest battle shounens of all time. Would be amazing if this goes beyond just re-adapting what the anime already covered and properly doing justice to the later manga arcs because that's the greatest fault of the original IMO. Although the new OP is definitely no sobakasu..... It's hard to top a 10/10 opening I wish the new one was at least comparable...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JQ8O5g2RXI Anyways, with this I kinda wonder what /qa/ thinks about the uptick in higher budget remakes of older anime? I find it a bit worrying because of the precedent Hollywood set with it, but everything so far has been pretty quality (This, Urusei Yatsura, Mahoujin Guru Guru come to mind). Also as a positive it seems that these new remakes, if source material has updated since the original, are doing more the Brotherhood style of remake in which they adapt the source material more accurately and to its conclusion instead of just being an advertisement. In a way I think I'd actually prefer more of these since I hate the way so many older anime are just sitting in the "next season never" bin and if a full remake is what's needed to see them adapted to finish then so be it. I will happily eat up the Spice and Wolf remake if that's what'll be done as well.
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 03:38:04 No. 110687 >>110688
Dororo was also great, and I haven't seen it myself but I hear Dai no Daibouken was pretty fantastic.
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 03:48:42 No. 110688
>>110687 Oh, yeah I remmember hearing that too. But I haven't played DQ so I haven't watched it in case I ever want to try it.
That also reminds me that there was the Gegege no Kitarou that people really liked with the
well updated Neko Musume. But not sure if that really counts because that's always being remade.
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 03:53:10 No. 110690 >>110693
>>110689 >Berserk
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 03:53:28 No. 110691
I like them. The anime they are based on are of course quite old and that makes it hard or people like me who did not watch them as a kid to get into so making a newer updated version for the current generation makes sense.
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 04:05:13 No. 110693
>>110690 Berserk already got the movie remakes of the Golden Age arc.
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 04:14:25 No. 110694 >>110695
somewhere in a parallel universe
Anonymous 07/07/23 (Fri) 04:16:24 No. 110695
>>110694 Done by A-team DEEN
Anonymous 07/09/23 (Sun) 03:38:34 No. 110849
As a general rule I dislike remakes since they invite a culture of stifled creativity and generally lack the artistic passion that made the original memorable. However, most of these are re-adaptations of manga or novels rather than remakes of old anime, which is a bit different, and are able to be more confident investing in a classic story which helps with animation quality and faithfulness to the original. It may partly be because I wasn't into anime as a kid and so fit into the target audience better, but I generally have been enjoying them.
Anonymous 09/23/23 (Sat) 03:45:25 No. 114068
>>113988 It deserves far more. It was really a fantastic, uh, reboot? Is what what you'd call it? Whatever it is, it was easily one of the best shows of the year and very high production values and excellent humor, with some touching moments, too.
The Urusei Yatsura thing was everything I hoped it would be, as it's different yet still what you would expect. If everything was done this well then I'd say the world would be okay with endless reboots/remakes/whatever it is.
Anonymous 09/23/23 (Sat) 03:48:51 No. 114069
I'm a novelty seeker. And effort spent on remakes is effort not spent on new stuff. So I'm against remakes in principle for that reason. But I don't hold so strongly to it in practice, if it's good then it's good and I'll watch it.
Anonymous 12/10/23 (Sun) 04:40:02 No. 117160
>>117159 The worst part is that it's a really good OST on its own, and you'd never think that you'd get annoyed of it. But I remember them swapping from whatever was playing to it so many times that I got sick of it at one point. Maybe memory serves me wrong, but I feel that at one point they switched to it twice in the same scene.
Anonymous 12/10/23 (Sun) 05:23:17 No. 117161 >>117162
I know its chiefly a comedy series, but how do you not lose motivation to engage with UY when the manga spoiled who would win very early
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:29:32 No. 138832 >>138834
>>138830 >>138831 From looking at some of the original's highlights, it does appear to be much better than the current adaptation in visuals and music, but the writing is weaker than I'd expected for such a famous battle manga. I figured it'd be an early and influential work, but the manga is actually from 1994, and the Kyoto arc is contemporary to Vento Aureo, Berserk's Golden Age, and of course Eva, which to me very much greatly outclass what I thought would be a legendary arc. And I hear the old adaptation has its own issues as well I've been told, with its filler and reused tracks.
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:30:49 No. 138833
>>138831 Music does make a huge difference, yeah. Sound design in general is underappreciated.
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:31:55 No. 138834 >>138836
>>138832 The original has a filler problem up to the Kyoto arc. The Kyoto arc is the absolute peak of the original anime and they execute it perfectly.
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:37:27 No. 138836
>>138834 But yeah, I'd probably need to compare it to the manga. Never actually read through the Kyoto arc since I'd already watched it in the anime
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:45:54 No. 138839
the manga is drawn kind of sloppy at times. The animation does it better
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 04:00:49 No. 138841
probably the absolute most massive difference between the series
https://anidb.net/creator/1410 https://anidb.net/creator/35837 directors are critical
Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 04:08:34 No. 138842 >>138843
I watched Rurouni Kenshin a few weeks ago (the original release), it held up really well and I say that as someone with no nostalgia for it because it was my first time watching. I don't understand why there is a remake in the first place. I haven't watched the remake though.
The openings and endings are phenomenal (wasnt too fond of ED2, but it may just have been utterly outshined the best ones).
OP1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3scz7VSF65M Bouncy
OP2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW2REjs-zNc Lovely
ED1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7mYIWnvLYU ED4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsrMqbndkQ Absolute perfection.
Honorable mention:
ED3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqU23vPjlQ Of course the best way to properly enjoy openings and endings are from binging the show all day and hearing them over and over through the day.
>>117159 The battle OST is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=kglzmao1Hu0 Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 04:15:30 No. 138843
>>138842 the OPs and the EDs remind me of the days/nights I spent watching Rurouni Kenshin on DVD with my brothers... good times...