Nobuhiro Watsuki’s Rurouni Kenshin manga enjoyed popular anime conversions. In 2023, Liden Films will bring out a reboot from director Hideyo Yamamoto (Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Cells at Work! Code Black).
The manga has been turned into a 95-episode TV series, an anime film, three original video animation projects, five live-action movies, and a stage musical by Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theatre troupe.
In September 2017, Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki debuted the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc manga (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) in Shueisha’s Jump SQ magazine. The manga was put on hold in December 2017 when Watsuki was accused of possessing child pornography (Wikipedia link). In June 2018, the series resumed publication. On January 4, Shueisha will release the manga’s ninth compiled volume.
Viz Media had been publishing the manga in English concurrently but halted once the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
I’m with Viz on this and am unsure why Liden picked up the series.
During the violent era known as the Bakumatsu, there was an Ishin assassin known only as the Hitokiri Battousai, whose skill and brutality became near legendary in the age of Restoration he helped to build. However, as the time of fighting drew to a close, he vanished without a trace, only to resurface eleven years later as a wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin. Now staying at a kenjutsu dojo maintained by a fiery-tempered woman named Kamiya Kaoru, and surrounded by newfound friends like the streetfighter Sagara Sanosuke, ex-samurai’s son Myoujin Yahiko, and the shrewd doctor Takani Megumi, he seeks to carry out his vow to protect the weak without killing in order to atone for the lives he’s taken. It’s not long, though, before this vow is put to the test, and the shadows of his past return to haunt him and everyone he holds dear.
Via Anime News Network.
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