![]() After receiving help from Kenshin, Kaoru allows him to stay at the dojo, and so the former assassin temporarily ceases his travels. One day, he stumbles across Kaoru Kamiya at her kendo dojo, which is being threatened by an impostor claiming to be Battousai. ![]() Vowing never to kill again, Kenshin dedicates himself to protecting the weak. Unbeknownst to them, Battousai has abandoned his bloodstained lifestyle in an effort to repent for his sins, now living as Kenshin Himura, a wandering swordsman with a cheerful attitude and a strong will. It has been ten peaceful years since then, but the very mention of Battousai still strikes terror into the hearts of war veterans. Feared as a merciless killer, he was unmatched throughout the country, but mysteriously disappeared at the peak of the Japanese Revolution. The series is based on a homonymous manga created by Nobuhiro Watsuki, which was first published in 1994.In the final years of the Bakumatsu era lived a legendary assassin known as Hitokiri Battousai. Together they all fight those who oppress the weak while they seek their destiny as well happiness and redemption. During the series Kenshin joins others in his quest: Kaoru Kamiya, a young orphan girl who became tutor of the Kamiya-Kashin Ryu Kendo style Sanosuke Sagara, a mercenary who used to bear the name Zanza and fights just with his incredibly powerful fists Yahiko Myojin, a young boy who was rescued by Kenshin from a band of thieves and now a pupil on Kaoru's dojo and Megumi Takani, a female doctor who was rescued by Kenshin from a band which forced her to make a lethal drug. In the 11th year of Meiji, in the middle of Tokyo this tale begins." Rurouni Kenshin (the OAVs and Movie are known as Samurai X) tells the story of a wanderer named Kenshin, who used to be called Hitokiri Battousai (Hitokiri means Assassin) during the Japanese civil war, and is now trying to make up for his past and all his murders by helping those in trouble with his reverse-blade sword and by using his powerful technique called Hiten-Mitsurugi Ryu to battle oppressors of freedom and justice, yet struggling with himself and his own murdering self. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became a legend. Felling men with his blood stained blade, he closed the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the age known as Meiji. ![]() "140 years ago in Kyoto,with the coming of the 'Black Ships', there arose a warrior called Hitokiri Battousai. ![]()
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