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Episode Summaries by Lynne (tougei@hotmail.com)
Note from Key 2 Anime: I got these summaries from the RK Archive
(http://rka.crosspaths.net/index.html). All these summaries are
done by Lynne. If you have any questions of would just like to
thank her for her wonderful efforts please email her at
tougei@hotmail.com
Episodes #47-49
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Episode #47 Crush! Futae No Kiwami. Pain of Sanosuke's Fist!
Hoji convinces Shishio to accept his strategy in fighting Kenshin
and company, which is that Usui, Anji and Soujiro will stay at
Shishio's headquarters while the other six Juppongatana go to ambush
the Aoiya. Kenshin and company arrive at the shrine and are greeted by
Komagata Yumi. Yumi tells the three men that the complex is a maze and
she will guide them through it. All fights will be one on one, and the
other two cannot interfere during a fight. The three men agree to the
terms. The first room that they are shown contains Anji the Myo-oh. Anji
and Sano are surprised and disappointed to see each other, and the fight
begins. Anji starts to get the advantage and then asks Sano to switch.
Yumi gets pissed and tells Anji that he doesn't have the authority!
Sano refuses. He tells Anji that he hates the Meji government as much
as Anji does, but he will not let Anji destroy the country as long as people
continue to build their lives with their families and have hope. Anji hits
Sano, then starts praying over him. Sano is not dead and he punches Anji
using the Futae No Kiwami. Everyone thinks the fight is over and that Sano
has won. Anji, however, is down, but not out.............
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Episode #48 The Focus of His Guze, Anji's New Reflection.
Anji had a memorial tablet tucked under his clothes. Sano just
happened to hit Anji on the memorial tablet, which took most of the
impact. The tablet represents the souls of the children Anji could not
save 10 years ago. At that time, Anji was a skinny priest in Tou Raku
Temple who took care of some orphaned children. The children were his
'family'. They were the offspring of men and women who had opposed
the Meiji government. The town leaders wanted the children gone, since
then the town would receive funds from the Meiji government. The town
leaders met with Anji, and Anji was planning to move with the children
to Tokyo. However, before he could do so, the townpeople burned the temple
with the children inside. Anji rushed to save them and got bashed on the
head by one of the town thugs. Anji then became Myo-oh Anji. Five years
later he came back to town a muscleman and killed the men involved in the
burning of the temple. He has never forgiven himself for failing the
children. Anji and Sano fight, using the Futae No Kiwami like ordinary
punches! Sano is trying to get through to Anji that he, Sano, experienced
that same sort of tragedy with the Meiji government and Sagara Souzou! Sano's
words finally start to sink in ("Blood will never wash away their tears!") but
Sano is down! Anji experiences a visitation from the dead children, then
admits he was wrong in his Guze! Sano won the battle, but Sano cannot yet
move. Anji tells Kenshin and Saitou about the Juppongatana's ambush on the
Aoiya, and Kenshin and Saitou hurry on. The next room contains Usui........
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Episode #49 A Wolf Sees the Shin Gun. Explosive Zero Gatotsu!
Anji has applied medicine to Sano's wounds and Sano has
recovered. He leaves Anji to join Kenshin and Saitou at the entrance to
the room where Usui is. Kenshin starts to draw his sword, but Saitou
stops him, saying that he will fight Usui, and Kenshin and Sano are to
go to the next room. Yumi says they cannot! Sano picks Yumi up and
starts running. Saitou tells Usui that he told Kenshin to go on ahead so
Kenshin's generous spirit would not stop him from killing Usui. Yumi
tells Sano and Kenshin about Usui's Shin Gun and insists that Usui will kill
Saitou. Usui brags to Saitou about the 50 cops he killed in Kobe. Saitou
tells Usui that being a cop allows him to kill people legitimately, but
revenge does not enter into his killing, only his own sense of justice.
"Aku, Soku, Zan." Saitou attacks! Saitou is wounded! Usui tells Saitou that
near the end of the Edo dynasty, Usui fought Shishio and was blinded.
He had a near-death experience which woke his inner eye. To Usui, people are
just masses of sounds, like the sound of blood flowing. Usui claims he wants
revenge and is going to kill Shishio. Saitou calls Usui a liar, saying Usui
doesn't really intend to fight Shishio again, because Usui knows that Shishio
is even stronger now then he was the first time they fought. If Usui loses to
Shishio now, his entire life would have been for nothing. Usui gets
pissed and Saitou attacks again. Saitou's katana does not penetrate the
turtle shell that Usui uses for a shield, and Saitou is wounded again!
Saitou and Usui are almost nose to nose when Saitou does his succession
technique, Zero Stance Gatotsu. Usui is impaled on the wall through the chest.
Meanwhile, Misao, Kaoru, Yahiko and the Oniwabanshuu are getting ready
to battle Kamatari, Hen-ya, and Iwanbo at the Aoiya. Kenshin, Sano, and
Yumi are running down a hallway. Yumi is telling Kenshin that the next
battle will be with Seta Soujiro, when suddenly Kenshin stops! He looks
at a doorway and says Aoshi is in the room behind the
door..........