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trust and betrayal Japanese animation tends to be hit or miss for me. Some titles are worth seeing over and over, while others make me want to press eject within the first five minutes. Thankfully the two lead characters in Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal, Kenshin and Tomoe, placed the movie firmly in the first category. To borrow a description I found online, the story is about a slave boy-turned assassin who, in a strange twist of fate, falls in love with the fiance of a man he had recently killed. Set during the Meiji Revolution in 19th century Japan, this series is a beautiful reflection of a culture rapidly changing into the unknown. I have not seen the entire series. All that I have seen so far is a movie that is an expansion of the first two episodes put together. Of the two, I preferred the second episode to the first, because there was more emphasis on character than pure violence. If all I had seen was the first episode, I probably would not have thought as highly of the series as I do. All of the killing did little to draw me into the story. It wasn't until the two characters were sent outside the city to hide, that I began to pay more attention to what was happening. ... Through the morning and into the evening, there was rain that gave way to a few flakes of snow. Both kinds of precipitation had been predicted, but I had no reason to go outside, so the weather could do whatever it felt like doing. I was more than content to stay inside where it was warm and dry. ... Continuing with my folk mood from the other day, I listened to the latest release from the Be Good Tanyas. It was the first album of theirs that I had actually purchased. Their first disc came into my possession via download and a friend at work had let me make a copy of their second release that he owned. |