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Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc
るろうに剣心-明治剣客浪漫譚- 新京都編
7.13
4,058 rank · 30,779 viewers · 54 favorites
Action
Drama
Historical
Samurai
Shounen
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Synopsis
A large scale remake of the time after Kenshin leaves Tokyo up until before the inferno of Kyoto.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
4.7
/10
What 7 viewers settled on.
33%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4
mode 4
σ 1.67
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.67 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.5
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Score over time
↓ 2.29
Running avg · Jan 2013 → Sep 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “As a fan of all things Rurouni Kenshin I was quite excited to see an updated two episode OVA remake of the Kyoto arc of the original series involving Shinshio Makoto as the bad guy, probably made...”
- 7 “A remake of the Kyoto arc with better animation, some good music tracks and some really bad changes to the plot. The studio have wasted all their efforts on this one. why? The Kyoto arc of the main...”
- 4 “Well, I admit since it's a remake of the original anime it does look a far better version -quality wise-, the story has been hugely diverged from the original story and I don't understand the...”
Verbosity
Short · 57%
Medium · 29%
Long · 14%
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- Format 2 × 45′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 30m all episodes
- Aired Dec 2011 – Jun 2012
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-6515 catalog
Produced by
- Aniplex Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor