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The chapter was later adapted into the episode 34 of the 2023 Rurouni Kenshin anime series, "Sakabato First Attack". [55] Rurouni Kenshin was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. The first volume of the series was released on October 7, 2003. [56]
Kenshin has been highly popular with the Rurouni Kenshin reader base, having ranked first in every Weekly Shōnen Jump popularity poll of the series, always with more than double the votes of the second place character. [55] [84] Two polls by the official Rurouni Kenshin anime featured Kenshin as one of the series' most popular characters. In ...
Himura Kenshin (緋村 剣心) is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎) [note 1] (rendered as Battousai the Manslayer in the Media Blasters English anime dub, [2] as Battousai: The Slasher in the Sony English dub. [3])
A two-episode OVA, retelling the story of the second arc/season, Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc, was announced in April 2011. The first part premiered on December 17, 2011, and ran at Tokyo's Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro theater and Osaka's Cine-Libre Umeda theater for one week only. [6] The second part premiered on June 23, 2012. [7]
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning opened in the first place at the Japanese box office, selling 350,000 tickets for over 508 million yen (about US$4.7 million) in its opening weekend. Rurouni Kenshin: The Final ranked at #2 that weekend, making Rurouni Kenshin the first franchise to take the top two spots at the Japanese box office in the same ...
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, known in Japan as Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Rōman Tan- Tsuioku-hen (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 追憶編, "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story – Recollection (or Reminiscence) Chapter"), is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series, based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga series by Nobuhiro Watsuki, and a ...
Rurouni Kenshin (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Hepburn: Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan-) [a] is a Japanese anime television series, based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga series Rurouni Kenshin. It is the second anime television series adaptation after the 1996–98 series. Animated by Liden Films, the series' first ...
"Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots"), also known as Rurouni Kenshin: The Movie and Samurai X: The Motion Picture, is a Japanese animated martial arts film directed by Tsuji Hatsuki, produced by Katsunori Narumo and Akio Wakana and written by Yukiyoshi Ohashi. It is based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki.