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Silly Kenshin Debate...

Postby Heart of Sword » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:34 pm

Okay, my friend and I were having a fight about Rurouni Kenshin, and she said that Kenshin was psychotic. I told her I'd get the fangirls at CAA behind me, so...help out please? :sweat:
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Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

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Spare him his life from this monstrosity

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Postby Aka-chan » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:37 pm

Merriam Webster defines "psychotic" as "Marked by fundamental mental derangement (as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality." Doesn't sound like our Kenshin. I'd say there's probably some term to describe battousai's ability to just kill, but it doesn't seem to fit the definition of "psychotic". :grin:
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Postby Heart of Sword » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:53 pm

Oro!Girl says he's schizo. Get 'er! :lol: *roowwwwrrrr*
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Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
And all and all you're just another brick in the wall
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
But Bismallah will not let me go
Because I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!

[Pink Floyd fan listening to Queen and hugging trees which is also known as taking care of God's creation with a pair of headphones on listening to Nightwish as loud as possible while writing a novel on a computer in the middle of a field filled with Wolves.]

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Postby oro! » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:14 pm

Well, I said that he was sorta schitzo...in how he acts. I didn't say he was totally schitzo...but come on, he could even hear Kaoru when he fought the aku-zoku-zan guy and totally didn't act like himself. Later, he did!
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:18 pm

Naw. Kenshin's not crazy, not any more than any other anime character.

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Postby Hitokiri » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:19 pm

yes and no.
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Postby Yeshua-Knight » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:28 pm

ok, let's put it this way, to say that kenshin has multiple personalities basically implies that we as christians have multiple personalities, in kenshin's case one would the wanderer, and the other would be the manslayer, like kenshin we have two sides to who we are: our new man (or woman), and our old man (or woman), we choose who we are with every breath we take and every choice we make, so i'd say no, he's not crazy, he's just torn between his two natures
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Postby Falco53 » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:38 pm

^ I have to disagree with you there. That analogy is incorrect. Kenshin actually has two separate personalities, two different states of mind. Notice that he actually had to punch himself in the forehead to go back from Battousai to being Kenshin. It is made quite clear that Kenshin has an actual mental disorder.
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Postby Heart of Sword » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:33 am

Falco, I'm sorry, but now I have to kill you. *chases you around with a sakabatou held backwards* (I'm joking...sort of. :P)
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Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
And all and all you're just another brick in the wall
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
But Bismallah will not let me go
Because I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!

[Pink Floyd fan listening to Queen and hugging trees which is also known as taking care of God's creation with a pair of headphones on listening to Nightwish as loud as possible while writing a novel on a computer in the middle of a field filled with Wolves.]

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Postby Kenshin17 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:13 am

He's crazy in a good way. He is a bit loopy but he is also pretty stable at the same time. I know I am contradicting myself...but anybody who would like not marry Kaoru sooner is a bit crazy :sweat:
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Postby Mangafanatic » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:27 am

I'd say Ken-san has a split personality. That's not be confused with schizophrenia.

So, he ain't psycho. So, tell your friend that there's about to be a BIFS headin' in her general direction.
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Postby kaji » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:03 pm

Why yes, yes he WAS crazy.

Thinking you can solve violence with more violence never really seamed to make sense to me... ;)

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Postby Doubleshadow » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:30 pm

I'm going with, he is not crazy becuase he is not irrational. He definitely has two-sides to his personality, but it's not as if he forgets who he is or where he is.
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Postby Yamato145 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:58 pm

of course hes phsycho
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Postby Jeikobu » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:36 pm

Kenshin is one of the most sane anime characters probably, especially considering what he's been through. How could anyone say Kenshin is psychotic? He tries to help others, and vows not to murder. Doesn't sounds like a nutjob to me.
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Postby Falco53 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:57 pm

Having a mental disorder does not make someone evil. To assume that Kenshin does not have mental problems because he does good things is a fallacious argument.

The very fact that he has a mental disorder talked about in Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal. The entire point of the movie was to show why he was so messed up.
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