'Rurouni Kenshin' Manga Gets New TV Anime Adaptation

The Jump Studio Red stage for Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story) manga announced a new television anime on Sunday.

The new anime series is being produced by animation studio LIDENFILMS (Tokyo Revengers, Mugen no Juunin: Immortal). Aniplex simultaneously opened an official website, revealing a teaser promotional video.

The original historical samurai manga ran in Weekly Shounen Jump between 1994 and 1999. Watsuki and his wife Kaoru Kurosaki began the Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Hokkaido-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc) sequel manga in Jump SQ. in November 2016. Shueisha published the sixth volume on July 2.

Studio Deen and Gallop adapted the original manga into a 94-episode television anime that aired from 1996 to 1998. Aniplex released a four-episode original video anime (OVA) the following year that served as a prequel to the television series, followed by a two-episode sequel OVA in 2002.

Synopsis
Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to create a time of peace, and a thriving country free from oppression. The new age of Meiji has come, but peace has not yet been achieved. Swords are banned but people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.

One wandering samurai, Kenshin Himura, still works to make sure the values he fought for are worth the lives spent to bring about the new era. Once known as Hitokiri Battousai, he was feared as the most ruthless killer of all the revolutionaries. Now haunted by guilt, Kenshin has sworn never to kill again in atonement for the lives he took, and he may never know peace until killing is a thing of the past.

Now in the 11th year of Meiji, Kenshin stumbles upon Kaoru Kamiya, owner and head instructor of a small dojo being threatened to close its doors. The police force is powerless to stop the string of murders done in the name of her dojo by a man claiming to be the famous Battousai. Kenshin's wanderings pause for now as he joins Kaoru to clear both their names. But how long can he stay before his past catches up to him? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Teaser PV


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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (Shin Anime Project) on MAL