One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 
Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Rurōni -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- (second one-shot for the series, which Watsuki calls a "side-story") 
Volume 3: Rurōni -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- (first one-shot for the series, which Watsuki calls the "pilot") 
Volume 6: Sengoku no Mikazuki (Nobuhiro Watsuki's debut one-shot) 
Volume 28: Meteor Strike

A bonus OVA episode included in the VHS/DVD release. 
 
Note: Also known as episode 95.

Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away. His travels lead him to Tokyo in the 11th year of the Meiji era, where he befriends a female Kendo master, a former thief, a brawler and a doctor all with their own secrets. Together they fight off the enemies surfacing from the dark past that Kenshin cannot escape. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon. Hiko kills the raiding bandits in hopes of saving as many lives as possible, but only manages to spare one life from the massacre. Hiko leaves the child, advising him to go to the nearby village and have them take care of him. A few days later, as Hiko comes back to check upon the child he saved, he is shocked to see the child had created graves, both for the slaves he befriended and the bandits who killed them. Seeing potential in the young one, Hiko takes the child under his wing, names him Kenshin, meaning "heart of sword," and teaches him about the art of swordsmanship under the Hiten Mitsuruugi Ryu. 
Struggling in a constant challenge with his ideal beliefs reflecting against the harshness of reality, Tsuiokuhen tells the melancholic and dark story of Himura Kenshin as one of the most feared assassins of the Japanese Revolution: the Hitokiri Battousai. 
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This version will be a remake of the original that revisits the encounters of &lsquo;Himura Kenshin&lsquo; with &lsquo;Kamiya Kaoru&lsquo; and &lsquo;Myojin Yahiko&lsquo;.

The manga features Kenshin Himura as the protagonist, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence. The manga will consist of five "arcs". (Source: Anime News Network)

Short story done for a Shounen Jump artist competition. About a boy that got a meteor lodged in his head. He gains super-human strength from the meteor in his head and saves a city from being crushed by another meteor headed towards the nuclear reactor.


The manga tells the story of a new character named Ashitarou Hasegawa, who had been held in a Tokyo prison for committing a certain crime. After being released, he encounters Aran Inoue, a boy his age, as well as a mysterious girl who had been waiting for Ashitarou's release.

It's been a few years after Kenshin gave Yahiko his sakabato. Kaoru sends Yahiko off to another dojo to look after the master's daughter while he's away. But when Yahiko arrives, the place has been already taken over by extremists and Yahiko is taken hostage as well. Now it's up to him to save the day.

Two chapter manga release celebrating the two-part live action movie premiere about the battle in Kyoto. 
The special focus on the meeting of Shishio Makoto and and his significant other, Yumi Komagata. The manga also details how Shishio formed the Juppongatana, his organization of warriors and assassins that he recruits in an attempt to overthrow the Japanese government in the original Rurouni Kenshin manga.
 
1-2. Rurouni Kenshin Uramaku: Honoo wo Suberu (るろうに剣心・裏幕─炎を統べる─) [Watsuki Nobuhiro] 
3-8. Sono Kage, Hanaregataku Tsunagitomeru Mono (その翳、離れがたく繋ぎとめるもの) [Kurosaki Kaoru]

The "Kenshin Kaden" basically refers to the last extra chapter (comes after the end of the manga and after Yahiko No Sakabatou) of Rurouni Kenshin entitled "Cherry Blossoms in the Spring Time" (Haru Ni Sakura). 
It was published in the Kenshin Kaden Artbook. 
(Source: The-OrO.com)

Re-adaptation of the main manga series.
 
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
 
(Source: Viz Media)

The second season of Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023). 

A phantom of the Bakumatsu who must be taken down. All the answers you desire are in Kyoto! 

(Source: Aniplex USA)

Kenshin's new life brings him to Tokyo, where he joins the Kamiya Kasshin-ry&ucirc; dojo to learn the art of "swords that give life." The dojo is peaceful but never boring as Kenshin and his fellow apprentice Yahiko train under the demanding auspices of their kind-hearted instructor, Kamiya Kaoru. But all that changes one afternoon when Tae from the Akabeko restaurant arrives with a pot of beef stew and a plea for help. One of the regulars at the restaurant lost his master's precious book, and he'll be kicked out in the street if he can't recover it. The simple case of a missing book soon becomes a dangerous mystery as Kenshin and his friends are tangled in deep secrets and dark plots!

Third season of Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan.

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