It was kind of lame how Mugen and Jin were invincible.
I mean, they may as well have not had any fighting scenes, they could have just said "don't make me completely dominate you in combat because that's what I'll invariably do."
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Really? In the collection I watched, Mugen gets slashed in the ribs and Jin gets thrown off a bridge by a blind woman fighter; later on Mugen is well beaten up by the bloke with the chains, then shot by his brother, a wheelchair-bound nutter; meanwhile Jin is being thrown into the sea by the Shogunate master. OK, they bounce back, that being the convention of anime, but they don't exactly come off as invincible in any of these encounters.
Not to mention being drugged, poisoned, coshed and generally bamboozled in pretty well all their amorous encounters. Heh heh.
All of those encounters except for the blind women happened in the last episode or two, and it was painfully obvious by then that they would endure anything that they faced. Not to mention, Mugen eventually defeated the blind woman as well as the Street Killer or any of the other ones. I get that he's one of the main characters, but it's like I said, they could have prefaced every fight scene with "The writers have already written me as an unstoppable force in combat." They come off as invincible in every encounter, I didn't even second guess that both Mugen and Jin survived their final battles. Only a person who isn't invincible would die after stabbing himself and then falling into the sea. Mugen tells the angels of death, "No" and they go away. If that's not invincible, I don't know what is.
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It would be rather awkward if our protagonists died halfway through the series.
As I said, it's an anime convention that the hero must survive. What I like about this particular anime is that the characters are human, flawed and fallible.
It's not about living or dying, it's about realistic fights.
When's the last time you beat up 50 enemies in a crowded area?
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Oh, I do that all the time. It cheers up a dull morning...
Never mind. What does your sig mean, btw, Queensavior? Did you save our gracious Queen? That's very good of you.
He he, I did choose this sig with those intimations in mind.
Queen is my favorite band and I'm also a fan of the Kingdom Hearts series.
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Her Majesty could do with a bit of saving just now - we've suddenly got a weird Government. People are calling it the Con-Dem-Nation.
Sorry, can't be bothered with anything that's going on outside of say... a 20 mile radius of me. Consequently, affairs of other nations are virtually fool's paradise.
*snickers*
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"It's not about living or dying, it's about realistic fights."
Why are you watching anime like this if you want realism?
I pointed out this is a great anime, it just doesn't have realistic fights.
Why is that hard to grasp?
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Actually I thought the fights were more realistic than what's usual in anime. I mean, the blind woman actually "won", if she would gone through with the blow she would have killed. They weren't invincible. They were just great swordfighters, and the thing about beating 50 guys is because the other guys sucks and they are too great.
Okey, I now I'm wrong at the last thing. I mean it just a egoboost and the kick you get from seeing this guy beat 50 swordsman. And the fights are a little more "philosofical", which is also cool.
Mugen didn't defeat the blind woman, remember? First she beat Jin, then Mugen, then when they fought again, she almost got him then pulled her blade. THAT was how he "defeated" her. So really, she was the most invincible character on there... until she herself decided to lose.
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