Act 1: The beginning of the romantic tale. | My feelings. I cannot contain my feelings for this! (!!!)

Cinema-ban makes me all happy and I can’t wait to see the movie. I missed Watsuki-sama drawing Rurouni Kenshin, and reading it straight from the manga. Aaaaah.

Okay, this is gonna be my last RK-related post for tonight; but that doesn’t mean I’m stopping from fangirling for tonight as well. This needs to be compensated with a ridiculously well-written Rurouni Kenshin fanfiction, fanart, or fan-whatever for that matter.

I just need to have more doses of this tonight.

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Can I just fangirl forever and ever and ever and ever at how awesome this is?!

TEEAAARRRRS. These happy, happy tears of mine.

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OH. MY. GOD.

I wasn’t prepared for this sudden burst of feelings!

Short story—

There’s this really good Japanese friend I made back when I was studying in Japan. He was a really close friend, and every now and then, we would talk about Rurouni Kenshin and just spazz about how amazing it was. He even gave me this really cool Rurouni Kenshin scroll with Kenshin in it, along with a few more RK merchandise the day before I returned to the Philippines.

So, said friend suddenly messaged me on Facebook a few days ago, and updated me with the release of the new RuroKen manga from Shounen Jump. I was aware of   a new RK manga since I’ve been keeping myself updated, but on that particular day I wasn’t really thinking about that - you’d be surprised to how happy I was when he told me the news!

My reply to him was filled with lots of “うわああー！” and “やった！” and “めっちゃ見たい！” that he could probably feel my excitement over there. He told me he’d be sending me a copy once he gets hold of it, and that made me even happier!

Anyway… I just suddenly remembered that story and that feeling when I saw this on the dashboard. UGH SO MANY FEELINGS! <3

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heckyeahruroken:

heckyeahruroken:

behindtintedglass:

*breathes*

On an aesthetic level, I love the way this video was created and rendered, using still black and white images of the manga and somehow giving it movement, as the images all fade and flow into one another, like reflections on water when they are tenderly broken by the ripples created by gently falling raindrops.

And yet on a deeper level… I am reminded of everything I had ever loved about their story, and everything they had inspired and taught me.

He left her behind to protect her, and she left everything behind to follow him.  And when she couldn’t fight the battles by his side, she still fought hard to win the battles that she could.  And she waited — so patiently waited, with complete trust and complete faith — for him to return to her.  And it is that faith, that belief, that promise to return home which kept him fighting and prevented him from succumbing to death, because he knew that he couldn’t possibly die… not when he knew that he couldn’t leave her alone and broken, not when he knew he had to see her smile again.  For him, always, always for him.

And despite the demon he had convinced himself he was, she saw in him the good man he was trying to be, and even when he was willing to succumb to the seductive call of the bloodthirsty monster still clawing inside him, to kill once more in order to save her life… she was the one who determinedly saved him from himself.

She was the epitome of everything he had fought for when he brought about this era: hope, life, redemption, home, love.  She wielded the Sword That Protects Life, and it was the idealistic joke that she somehow recreated into truth, a way of life in which he could finally walk in peace. 

And he was the fulfillment of everything she had ever believed in, all the ideals she never thought could ever be brought into reality.  Here, now, with her, was a man who was legendary not only because of his skill with his sword, but because of his impossibly strong heart, in which he would always, always use his strength to fight for those who are weak, for the people in this era which he had sacrificed everything for.

And she was determined to stay by his side, because for as long as he was protecting the happiness of the people, she would be there to protect his.

But when I feel like giving up
You’re reminding me
That we all fall down sometimes
And when I hit the ground
You lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go 

THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS.

This is so beautiful. The song, the images, the effort and love put in the video, the comments written by behindtintedglass above (thank you for submitting this! To the video creator, I love you). I can go on forever in describing just how perfect this post is. I can’t help but have this tingly and warm feeling in my chest and I’m reminded how I love not only Kenshin and Kaoru but Rurouni Kenshin as a whole. 

…I have no words. They all took it from me.

This video took it all from me.

Loving this forever and ever.

Kirei na hotaru de gozaru na.

“There are beautiful fireflies.”

You know those times when you suddenly feel so nostalgic, remembering that special moment and wanting to feel it all over again? I felt that just now, and it got me watching clips of Rurouni Kenshin.

Episode 31 - that scene with the fireflies. That very special scene that makes me teary-eyed every single time I watch it. The animation was incredible, the music was perfect and the atmosphere was just amazing. The expressions - oh god the expressions - they all looked and felt so real. Especially this part of the scene where Kaoru was about to cry.

It was so real I can’t even put it on paper. I can’t draw how perfect and full of emotions her eyes were at that moment. This sketch doesn’t do it justice at all.

Sigh, my heart.

Here I am, in the school library, checking my social sites and browsing through other stuff, when I decided to check up on kenshin-tv.com again.

And then, this appeared.

…Oh goodness, can I just — asdfaskdhkhklklj (!!!!) I had to log in to tumblr just so I could post this entry and be the fangirl that I am.

The other day, it was this, and now it’s Kenshin and Kaoru being all sweet and intimate, and gosh, I cannot contain this! It’s all so sudden, and I’m in the freaking school library, being my nerdy RuroKen fangirl-self! Oh dear. They are so adding the Jinchuu arc for the remake of the anime series.

My heart.

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