I believe I loved each movie of this saga equally, although I had some complaints with Kyoto Inferno as I didn't feel like Aoshi's arc should've been added since it felt rushed for me and like it didn't really provide much to the story. However, watching The Legend Ends and how his character was *sort of* needed, I understand the rush in the prequel.

I'm sure the fighting scenes in this one were much better than in the others, the BGM was perfect all through the saga, the cast was *almost* perfect and I have little discomfort with these movies. Nonetheless, I still didn't exactly like Shishio's fight, but it's more of a personal villain-MC preference.

While the setting of Kyoto Inferno was amazing and how Shishio built up fear on Kyoto was terrific, especially the part where Shishio's men enter Kyoto with the drums and big fire and star setting fire everywhere on Kyoto definitely showed the type of fearless villain he was, the fight in The Legend Ends felt like Kenshin had no way to beat him at all. Like I said, it's more of a persona preference, but I like villains who are defying and the absolute strongest, which Shishio was, and in which the MC has no chance against them, BUT eventually the MC finds the strength to fight to protect the people he loves and cares about. Obviously, that was Kenshin's driving force and what led him to fight to kill Shishio, I feel like Kenshin didn't stand a chance against him.

Kenshin was portrayed as the strongest samurai throughout the other 2 movies and even though that was exactly Shishio's whole arc (the only one stronger than Kenshin), they under-powered Kenshin to an unnecessary level, imo. If Shishio's body didn't burn, Kenshin would've been dead.

I generally don't like the whole "let's fight as friends" (like with Sanosuke, Satoshi and Aoshi) since it showed that neither of them stood a chance against Shishio and I get that's the whole point of "friends fighting together", but it just bothers me a little.

I still loved the saga and think it was amazingly done, the cast was all perfect except Sanosuke (I have major complaints about the actor and the whole personality they gave him, but I would rather not get there), the production was very thoughtful and it looked like they wanted to be as loyal to the original story as possible, which I believe they achieved. So I am rather satisfied at these movies, even though I was a fan of Rurouni Kenshin only as a kid.

Big shout out to Sato Takeru for his great performance.