A Conversation

[bigscary]

BSD: So, the major lesson of Kenshin is that martial arts aren't good exercise, but KILL YOU. Not due to violence or danger, but in and of themselves? That one guy sets himself on fire, the cop ruins his eyes or something, and the Himemiya school gives you AIDS.
Q: Himemiya school?
BSD: Yeah, Kenshin's school. Himemiya Kenshin, right?
Q: Himura. Himura Kenshin. And that's not the school name anyway.
BSD: So who's Himemiya, then?
Q: Anthy.
BSD: [Silence] The Rose Houseboy?
Q: [Cackling]
BSD: Now that's passive-aggression.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

OMG you are horrid!

Also, I refuse to believe that that last Kenshin OVA happened. It was shit.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Also, it was the Kamiya dojo. Kaoru's name.

[arks.livejournal.com]

Kenshin's school was something else though. Hiten-something-ryu.

[(Anonymous)]

Hiten-mitsurugi-ryuu

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Anonymous knows all, even outside of 4chan!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Reflections? I liked it. Maybe it doesn't fit in with the rest of the series, but it was good on its own. I actually haven't seen the other OVAs yet, or the end of the series.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what it was called in English. The one where everyone dies.

I haven't seen the end of the series, either.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

"Hamlet"?

Only nobody in that had consumption.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Hamlet + Kenshin = ... oh dear. My brain went to an interesting place. :D

[manwe-iluvendil.livejournal.com]

How, pray tell, does AIDS relate to Kenshin? Is there some kind of blood joke I've forgotten in my old age? I havne't seen the show since college.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

In the last OVA Kenshin and Kaoru die of, like, tuberculosis or something similar. Or, you know, AIDS.

[(Anonymous)]

Whatever it was, Kaoru catches and dies of it after intimacy.

=(

[manwe-iluvendil.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh. Never got to that one. Hmm. Now I really I wish I hadn't asked. Can't blame the messenger. It's my own damn fault for asking. Damn.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Be like me and pretend it didn't happen! It wasn't written by the original author of the manga anyway, and definitely wasn't what she had in mind for them, from what I've read.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

It was Syphilis

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

It's a sexually transmittable disease that causes wasting and eventual death.

[manwe-iluvendil.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of what AIDS is, Dave. All too aware, given the places I've lived. My question was how it relates to Kenishin. I didn't know about the whole Tuberculosis OVA.

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

Oooh you forgot the last bit of the tacky convo:

BSD: And the only reason Hiko hasn't succumbed to the AIDS is because he's in the best physical condition!

Q: Geez, he's the Magic Johnson of the Kenshinverse.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

No, I mean I refer to it being AIDS as it has neither the attributes of Tuberculosis (sexually transmitted rather than virulently airborne) nor Syphilis (wrong symptoms). It's an unnamed slow wasting disease which is clearly identified as being sexually transmitted. The creators keep saying "it's not any real disease" but walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.

[avram]

Well, it could be tuberculosis, and they just happened to catch it after having sex.