The new Rurouni Kenshin anime adaptation is continuing with a third season. The announcement comes after the end of Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance‘s second cour. The manga was previously adapted into a 1996 anime series and also inspired a 1997 anime movie and three OVAs. The new anime started in July 2023.
The Rurouni Kenshin manga originally ran from 1994 to 1999 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump. Its sequel manga Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Hen began in 2017. In November 2017, Watsuki was referred to prosecutors for simple possession of child pornography and was fined 200,000 yen (~US$1,473.35) in 2018. Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Hen was initially suspended before resuming serialization in June 2018.
Synopsis:
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with he 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.
