WTF? Crazy OAV people!

[summercomfort]

Oh my god! Nooo! This isn't supposed to happen!

Spoilers:


(Taken from the SASSE list:)

"Kenshin dies in the second, and final part of SeisouHen. And the disease is apparently tuberculosis (consumption)."

Okay, time for a very distressed cry. NOOOOOOOO!

And now, allow me to state here:

WTF??!!!
Since when did consumption leave nasty wounds? And wasn't Kenshin happily riding back to Kaoru on Sano's big Mongolian horse?


And finally, the opinion of my esteemed brother, John:

@#$%^&*)(!
If Kenshin died riding home, that could have been because of an infected broken limb, like Cabrillo
did on San Miguel.

Comments

[ex-miyuu70.livejournal.com]

That's crazy. No offense, but that's a stupid way for Kenshin to die. After losing gallons of blood, avoiding death about ten million times, and saving the world, he dies from TB?

[summercomfort]

absolutely. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Why can't he die an honorable death?

Well, our only hope is that the SASSE person is lying. Or confused. Because s/he *did* think consumption is leprosy. So there's still hope.... maybe, a little, somewhat, eck ^^;;;

Re:

[ex-miyuu70.livejournal.com]

Leprosy??? O_O That's even worse. -_-;;;

[summercomfort]

Another exerpt from the SASSE list:


Sorry, I'll be talking now like the semi-medical professional college student I am.

1. From what I know...tuberculosis--nor leprosy--doesn't present itself that way! (At least the way I saw in SH ep 1)

2. But yes, tuberculosis and leprosy are cousin diseases. TB can have skin manifestations, and leprosy can have a few lung problems. But usually those are special cases.

3. For the benefit of the people, I understand Japan used to have leprosy problems a while back. But they fixed it quite nicely, thanks to help and research from my countrymen! (Mabuhay!) I'm not so sure about TB, since we didn't particularly study it per country.

4. If that story they conjured up is to be believed, it really is possible for the redhead to pass the disease to his wife, if they're always close together in a house. If they aren't, as Kenji complains, the chances are a little slim. TB and leprosy are transmittable usually only by close contact.

So that's all this aspiring doctor has to say.

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

I read a book a while back called "The Samurai's Garden", and, like all books written by Americans about Japan or Japanese-Americans, it took place during WWII (do they ever write about anything else? It's as if all of Japanese history was condensed into World War II). Anyway, it was about this boy who went to live in a town that happened to have a leper colony. ::shrug:: Go figure.

How was Kaoru to know, in those last fatal days, that a force stronger than love and darker than jealous, would come to claim Kenshin?

Kenshin: Oh.. these silly hakama.. they're too tight de gozaru... ::coughs and wheezes into a delicate lace hankie::

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and Okita Souji died from TB. ::pets Okita, who coughs up blood:: o.o;

[summercomfort]

And Takasugi! (the other leader, who lead the troops on an attack of Kyoto or something, got caught and thrown into prison, and he plays the shamisen! In the OAVs, he coughs on a horse and dies. ;_;)

Everyone died from consumption back then.