glare cel

Rurouni Kenshin, TV
Episode thirty
A-6
Semi-matching background

small glare screencap

Wow. I am still in shock over being able to get this cel. Saito looks wonderfully evil in this shot. It’s hard to believe he’s one of the good guys. This cel comes from the incredible fight between him and Kenshin. I love the way that the audience is never told who would have actually won this battle. This cel comes just as Saito is telling Kenshin “I will kill you now.”

Like my another episode 30 cel I once owned, this one comes with a production background from the same episode but not the same frame. In general, I have noticed quite a few cels from this show coming with an episode background from the wrong sequence. I don’t know if this was because someone was just not paying attention or if they were just randomly putting backgrounds behind what they thought would be the most popular cels.