Probably a longshot, but do you (or anyone reading this) have the original version of Sakura Wars TV episode 9? Huge parts of the episode are completely different. I only have a really crappy low resolution watermarked Chinese hardsub of it from a streaming site cut into 2 parts, without the OPED. I heard at least one old English fansub of it was based on the TV broadcast version? It's not on the North American DVDs, in the Latin American Spanish dub, nor the original Japanese DVD singles. The Japanese DVD boxset, which was released years later, should have it as an extra, but nobody seems to have ripped it, unless someone knows of it being on some private tracker? I already checked some, and asked friends to check others I don't have access to. If anyone knows, please tell me, even if it's on a tracker I don't have access to myself.

@SakoeraTyan sorry I don't have that, I don't know what is Sakura Wars xD. Sounds like you did a massive search too, I definitely know how that feels.

It is the Anime-Fansubs [A-F] version, the only one based on TV broadcast. A-F subbed only eps 1-9, but it was sixteen years ago so have fun searching for them...

This author claims his torrent based on TVRip. Try it: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=964668 Also, what's the difference between episode versions?

kingofhearts: Yeah, that's the one I tried to find, but to no avail. mad_le_zisell: Thanks for the link. I downloaded it and unfortunately it's a R1 DVD rip. Whole scenes are different. An easy way to tell them apart is that the new version starts with Maria doing shooting practice, while the original version starts with a flashback in Russia (at least in the crappy rip, without OPED, that I have). https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgxOTExMjgw.html https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgxOTExMjg0.html You can rip them with youtube-dl yourself or download them from sendspace before they expire after 30 days of inactivity: https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/i%2BTTzpMqnomeQ8nX0ir5uw I'll admit I haven't really properly checked the NEP, but I wonder if the Next Episode Preview at the end of the original episode 8 was any different. The youku streams don't have any, unfortunately. And if it's different, I don't expect the Japanese DVD boxset to have it (unless...?), so a TV rip based fansub or a TV rip of episode 8 might be worthwhile too. raresubtitles: Sorry for hijacking the comments section. ^_^;

Holy crap, how did I not know about this DVD-box epilogue until today? Little Kenji is in it! Thank you for sharing it.

i love you, i searched for the "Rurouni Kenshin: Review Special" for years

@SakoeraTyan In case you missed it, you are in luck: https://nyaa.si/view/1273254

Rurouni Kenshin - Special 2 - Special Techniques filesize 119 MB.seems to be original file which is missing here.