Action, romance, and historical intrigue help make Nobuhiro Watsuki’s Rurouni Kenshin, the tale of a wandering swordsman set against the backdrop of the Meiji Restoration, one of the most popular manga titles of all time. Himura Kenshin, once an assassin of ferocious power, now fights to ...
period in Japan and follows a former assassin from the Bakumatsu, named Himura Kenshin. After his work against the bakufu, Hitokiri Battosai disappears to become Himura Kenshin: a wandering samurai who protects the people of Japan with a vow of never to take another life. Watsuki wrote this ...
The animated film period saw a number of releases also, perhaps the most popular of which darker, more serious 4-episode OVA duology Trust & Betrayal and Reflection, which focused more on Kenshin’s backstory and garnered the title a strong resurgence of interest in 1999. So the time has ...
No less a bravura period piece from director Keishi Otomo and possibly even more over the top than its predecessor, Kyoto Inferno reunites reluctant swordsman Kenshin (Takeru Satoh, Kamen Rider) with his ragtag fleet of compadres, including former opium peddler Megumi (Yu Aoi, Honey and Clover...
continues to act kindly towards him. These acts of kindness invite Kenshin to break his reclusive blood-soaked existence and allow one meaningful and possibly inter-subjective relation to be established. Thirdly, because Tomoe’s presence around Kenshin allows him to taste, for the first time, the...
One of the biggest manga hits of the 1990s, Rurouni Kenshin is set in Japan during the late 1800s and brings this remarkable period of Japanese history to life. It is the Meiji Restoration, and the feudal system separating the classes has ended. By law, the samurai must give up their sw...