Honestly on a tangent, Samurai X is more violent, bloody, graphic, and artistic. As in the opening scene of Betrayl (first day of christmas break, bad spelling) when kenshin leaps up into the air, and cuts the person down in a downward slash attack, as in the head band cracks, then a red line appears around the head and blood showers out of the body, compared to when Kenshin is fighting Hannya at Konryu's palace, allthough it is artistic how his arms are made to look out of sync, when he is hit, no blood or pain, nothing. When Kenshin is fighting himself for Kaoru, he unleashes himself upon his opponent, and breaks his hand, and buts his sword into his stomach, and blood rolls out of his mouth. Two very different blood textures