In the end, with ample lives lost and others in tatters, Kenshin gets ready to encounter Enishi and receive the "judgment of man" for his past sins. But some battles need to be fought before Kenshin can go to Enishi, and he gets help from his friends and past associates. Kenshin diverged from its superior manga at the end of the Kyoto Arc. The show had to invent stories after what was a pretty close following to the manga. Plot Summary. Set in 1864 Japan, the plot quickly establishes the opposing fractions. With Japan open to foreign trade, some rebels seek to end the Shogun's rule and restore the emperor's authority in the land. An eccentric, Himura Kenshin becomes the face of the revolutions and pledges to upend the Tokugawa shogunate. Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story - Act 0, Part 1 is the 20th episode of the Rurouni Kenshin 2023 anime adaptation. While drinking tea at the Kamiya Dōjō, everyone ask Kenshin to tell them a story of his previous errands as a rurouni. So Kenshin tells them of an aventure he had time ago while on Yokohama with a rickshaw owner and a western mysterious doctor. While the doctor was treating Rurouni Kenshin is available to watch on Crunchyroll. "Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The Kenshin appears to be tired and wounded in almost the entirety of two hours and 15 minutes of the film. Yet, his facial expression becomes darker when he has to revert back to the ferocious Cinematography The very first thing that meets the eye in Rurouni Kenshin is the excellent choreography of the action scenes. Be it Satoh Takeru or Arata Mackenyu or any other actor such as Tsuchiya Tao (Misao Makimachi) or Eguchi Yosuke (Goro Fujita), I loved how neat their fight scenes were. But, this is only the beginning. Despite some sequence changes here and there, the new Rurouni Kenshin remake is surprisingly close to the manga in pretty much every way. From the character designs to the individual scenes and dialogue, the series follows the manga source material very closely. This contrasts with the original, which mostly followed the manga but did take some Rurouni Kenshin, aka: The Wandering Samurai, Samurai X. Dedicated to the man, the myth, the legend Rurouni Kenshin. This is the story of a wanderer named Himura Kenshin, formerly known as the assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai" (Battōsai the Manslayer). After participating in the Bakumatsu war, Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering There is a lot to be said of Kenshin's journey from guilt-ridden wanderer to the man he becomes by the final act of The Legend Ends. It's easy to see his story as a metaphor for Japan's 1HE9NiR.