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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 the manga series of the same name by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It is the second anime television series adaptation after the 1996–98 series.
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])
Tao Tsuchiya (土屋太鳳, Tsuchiya Tao, born February 3, 1995) is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her memorable role of Makimachi Misao in the movie series Rurouni Kenshin, as Mai Nakahara in The 8-Year Engagement, Koharu in The Cinderella Addiction and most recently as Yuzuha Usagi in Netflix's Alice in Borderland.
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 ...
On TV Asahi's top 100 most popular anime television series poll, Rurouni Kenshin ranked 66th. [70] They also conducted an online web poll, in which the series ranked 62nd. [71] Nearly a year later, TV Asahi once again conducted an online poll for the top one hundred anime, and Rurouni Kenshin anime advanced in rank and came in twenty-sixth ...
Rurouni Kenshin got a rare reboot this year, as Fuji TV airs a re-telling of one of the most popular manga series of the 1990s. The story follows a samurai looking for a new life post-war, even as ...
A novel adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin Cinema-ban, titled Rurouni Kenshin -Ginmaku Sōshihen-(るろうに剣心 ―銀幕草紙変―) and written by Watsuki's wife Kaoru Kurosaki, which was released on September 4, 2012, is a Japanese light novel version of America's Restoration's New Kurogasa (Jin-E) Arc manga featuring Banshin and a ...
Rurouni Kenshin (Japanese: るろうに剣心, Hepburn: Rurōni Kenshin), also known as Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins in North America, is a 2012 Japanese jidaigeki action film based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. Directed by Keishi Ōtomo, the film stars Takeru Satoh and Emi Takei.