#rk4

[earl-of-221b]

Also genuinely love the utterly disgusted look in Saito’s eyes whenever he sees some weird bullshit stuff going on -- like he looks at Enishi like he’s soooo disappointed in this guy’s life choices, he looks at the guy who charges him like he’s a gross bug he stepped on, he looks at the Shishio effigy like ‘R U kidding me,’ he returns to Tokyo from Yokohama covered in blood with his 2 surviving officers with an absolutely glazed, incredulous look of disgust, ‘What The Fuck Happened While I Was Out?” He gatotsus a guy into crates like ‘the audacity,’ it’s really like he’s never seen so much bullshit before, which is patently untrue, because his whole life is like that--

[ella390-the-potato]

Introducing RK-4.

[gshnlng]

Something i've been reading these days.

[user-reindeerflotilla]

Since they updated Miitomo adding eye colors, etc., my number of sidekick miis has expanded a lot. And of course, Miifotos ensued. Lol, I'm such a dork. 😆😆😆

[mordwywr]

noblesse epic fight in a nutshell.

[gunrunnerhell]

Vektor RK4

South African licensed variant of the Israeli Galil, the RK4 is chambered in 5.56x45mm. It can be difficult to differentiate the RK4 from the Galil because the changes to the design are very subtle. The biggest tell tale sign would be the stock; the RK4 uses a polymer instead steel side folding stock, with a longer length of pull. There have been a few RK4 parts kits brought into the U.S, which can be assembled on a Galil receiver. (GRH)

[earl-of-221b]

I’m really disappointed in cutting whatever the Aoshi miniarc was going to be in RK: The Final. Aoshi comes back looking more put together than he ever has in this movie series, healed from pain and hurt from the past and operating as a true Oniwaban member again -- in fact he’s the Okashira! 

We get a scene of him standing in front of the Kamiya dojo’s motto, ‘to invigorate the heart,’ just stepping inside the dojo and essentially viewing the place that is Kenshin’s home. This thing that Kenshin truly believed and embodied. Kenshin, the guy who showed him mercy and pulled him out of misery and set him on a path of healing. And then we get a flashback of Aoshi getting intel back in Kyoto, ‘Blood will rain in Tokyo. And Battousai is involved.’ 

He gets intel that Kenshin is getting targeted and that’s why he comes with Misao to Tokyo -- to warn Battousai. But it’s too late. The plot has already started. That’s when Aoshi joins the fight -- completely separately from the main Tokyo gang -- he even catches one of the Jinchuu manifestos/calling cards and takes note. 

Then he gets hit saving civilians and then. Never returns to the plot. Ever. That’s it. Not even any footage of him healing and coming back. So. it just looks like. Aoshi. Died??? Huh???? 

I’m really mad they did that to Aoshi because he really deserves so much better. There was some really subtle acting since Aoshi is not Loud. All his acting is done on his face. He barely talks but I think he conveyed so much in the scenes where he visits the Kamiya dojo. Like the movie implies he came all the way from Kyoto to defend Battousai as...a friend? 

And I say this knowing they had something in mind for Aoshi because he’s a huge part of the Jinchuu arc in the manga!!! In the manga the Kaoru death fake out happens and everyone is completely off their game totally inundated, lying around moping and inconsolable. 

In walks Aoshi. Pulls out the cords in the Kaoru doll. 

Figures out everything in about five minutes, alone. 

Like a walking info dump. 

Aoshi was a really great turning point in the manga because he pulls everybody out of their depression-funk through sheer unadulterated competence to the scene. Then they get Kenshin on his feet and Aoshi is there sailing with him to Enishi’s murder island to fistfight goonies. 

Aoshi deserved better in the movies -- just a scene telling us he was ok would have been enough. Just a scene of him meeting Kenshin again. When all of Kenshin’s friends - including Saito - jumps out to help him clear a path to the Enishi in the final act -- Aoshi! Should have! Been there!! 

[earl-of-221b]

I really understand why they had to cut everyone’s grievances against Kenshin in Jinchuu arc’s villain team, but they did outline one character in particular as the figurehead for the evil dreamteam, and it was Hyogo the guy with the canon arm. The canon plays a huge part in destroying the Akabeko, downtown and  the Maekawa dojo, and Kenshin’s main scene out of the evil dreamteam was with this guy. So it was really important to pack all that info into their one interaction-- 

I think it was essential for the film to tell us that Kenshin cut this man’s arm off. 

That’s why he now has a gun-arm. 

More than ten years ago, when he was 15, he cut this man’s arm clean off. Now he is pissed and back for revenge. That’s enough to encapsulate the entire rest of the team. I don’t know why they didn’t just tell us Kenshin cut Hyogo’s arm off. Their interaction and Hyogo begging for death doesn’t quite make sense if we didn’t get any semblance of why he is doing this - Kenshin cut off his livelihood, his craft, his career as a fighter and soldier, years of training in that arm gone - like imagine if Kenshin was de-armed and lost Hiten Mitsurugi ryu forever. 

Not sure why the film would shy away from that violent revelation when in the next movie it goes ham showing us exactly how Kenshin killed and murdered his way to notorious fame. He bit a man’s ear off. He made it rain blood. Arm cutting should have been given to us in rk4.