In 2020, the OVA of Kenshin Remembrance is still a classic among classics.
Twenty years later, I am still deeply moved by the work of 1999.
Whether it is character design, plot, picture, mirroring, artistic conception, soundtrack, lines, and dubbing, they are all perfect and impeccable. Especially BGM, I really can't find the words to praise it at all - maybe the style of painting has inevitable traces of the times, but it is an absolute enjoyment in listening.
The executioner, the lost cat, the mountain in the night, the cross wound, the four scenes filled with bleakness at the end have written this tragic story, the beautiful violence, the changes of historical times, the small and grand death, and the death of the thin paper. Hate and love.
My personal favorite is the camellia that appears throughout the chapter. When the camellia is falling, it is not like the cherry blossoms, but maintains a complete posture, and resolutely drops the whole flower, which is the posture of a samurai.
Some of the most impressive and favorite pictures are as follows-
In the nighttime assassination, the obsessive Kiyori reached for the camellia. At the end of the screen, a flower was placed on the back of the corpse, reflecting the blood on the ground. I personally would like to believe that this is what Jianxin put on it, and that this is also a kind of gentleness of Jianxin.
Kenshin walked over the huge camellia tree in the illusion, and stepped over the fallen flowers on the ground (to a certain extent, alluding to the blood under his knife), and Ba followed behind him.
A lot of memories of walking in the dark here always remind me of the haiku left by Soji Okita, "Move か ね ば Dark に へ だ つ や Flower and Water".
Not moving, separated by darkness, flowers and water.
After that, Xuedaiba saw the phantom of his deceased fiancé Qingri in the temple. The wind and snow outside the door drifted in through the door, while Qingri stood in front of the Buddha statue with a drooping eyes and looked down at the one he was holding in his palm. Camellia.
This is one of my favorite and most shocking scenes in the whole article. I don't know why, maybe it's because of the tragedy of Shedaiba, maybe because of the gentleness of Kiyosato in Ba's memory, maybe because of the contradiction between Buddhist thought and samurai tradition.
After reading the reminiscence chapter, you can understand the deep meaning of the master's two famous lines that also appeared in the live-action movie.
"A sword is a weapon, and swordsmanship is a killing technique. No matter how flamboyant rhetoric is used to cover it up, this is an indisputable fact. Cutting to protect others, killing for survival, this is the truth of swordsmanship."
"Watching the cherry blossoms in the spring, the stars in the summer, the full moon in the autumn, and the first snow in the winter. If you still feel that the wine is not good, then you have a problem."
And this is also the story of Hiimura Kenshin and Snow Daiba.
"I want you to be the scabbard of a sharp blade called "Himura". "
"I'm sorry, husband."
Vertical scars are hate, horizontal scars are love.
Cross scars, love and hate.
The beloved drifted away with the snow, and the living were left alone with their cross wounds.
And, the live-action version of the reminiscence chapter will be released this year, and the cast of Shedaba has not been released yet. I really can't tell if I'm looking forward to it or scared. I believe Sato Ken can play Kenshin well in the past, but I really can't imagine an actress who can't play Shedaba, or who can replace Junko Iwano's voice. Memories
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