Sorry the choreography to this fight is terrible, im trying to fix it as I type this, also the demon artifacts are shishio's power source. There are 4 of them so after aoshi ineviatbly joins them and saito has his rematch with usui, they will work together destroying them one by one. Each artifact is guarded by a powerful demon. Each one fights a different demon and kenshin goes after shishio for the final battle as hoji and yumi watch.

I do love Jade and Guy. I found both characters to be super enjoyable. My friend is in love with Asch however. As for side characters, I probably enjoyed Sync and Ion. Although I attempted to watch the anime associated with Tales of the Abyss and I couldn't get past Ions lisp in the Japanese version....

^Wtf where do you live? Thats alot of asses that need to be whooped.

Ha. I was slightly different. Anime was popular in Thailand, so I had no problem there but when I moved to the United States I downplayed my interest in it and just went with what I liked and what other people liked as well since I'm pretty eclectic. In retrospect I wish I didn't since Anime and Gaming are big parts of my life - so there's a lot of value in what you say.

Rurouni kenshin is chock full of references to those three religions, both the anime and the manga because of the period it takes place in, durring the westernization of japan.