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"Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996): :  -- The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
"Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996): :  -- The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
"Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996): :  -- The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
"Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996): :  -- The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.

Overview

User Rating:
8.9/10   1,071 votes
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Writers:
Michiru Shimada (screenplay)
Nobuhiro Watsuki (comic)
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
10 January 1996 (Japan) more
Plot:
The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan. full summary
User Comments:
A great series unfortunately plagued by sub-par filler episodes more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 1 of 74)
Yûji Ueda ... Sanosuke Sagara / ... (1 episode, 1996)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai" (USA)
"Samurai X" (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:
25 min (95 episodes)
Country:
Japan
Language:
English | Japanese
Color:
Color

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Trivia:
Another real-life personality in the show is Toshimichi Okubo. Okubo was one of the men who overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate, and was one of the founding members of the new Meiji government. more
Quotes:
Sanosuke Sagara (Zanza): Hey, Kenshin, what are you doing?
Kenshin Himura: Oh, I was just rummaging.
Sanosuke Sagara (Zanza): Rummaging, uh? What's in the box? Is it food?
Kenshin Himura: No, actually it's...
Sanosuke Sagara (Zanza): Never mind, don't care.
Kenshin Himura: Uh, ok.
[sighs]
Kenshin Himura: That's just like Sano...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Last Samurai (2003) more
Soundtrack:
DAME! more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
A great series unfortunately plagued by sub-par filler episodes, 29 January 2000
Author: Dot-chan (dot_warner17@hotmail.com) from Gainesville

I've read most of the manga series before I saw the anime, so I was a bit disappointed by it. Since the anime came out at the same time as Watsuki was drawing the manga, there were many occasions in which filler episodes were drawn because the show had to continue. Not only were these fillers not in the original manga continuity, many of them were totally lame and poorly written. There are a few gems among these fillers, but for the most part the anime was at its best when it was totally true to the original work.

The voice actress (yes, actress) does a very good job as Kenshin when he's being serious, but in "rurouni" mode it becomes painfully obvious that she is a woman trying to sound like a man. However, many others are of the opinion that this is exactly what makes her the perfect role for Kenshin: she portrays the two sides that Kenshin embodies--the rurouni who has given up the killing sword, and the hitokiri still thirsting for blood--very well. If this gets released in the United States, I highly urge you to get the subtitled version, and I definitely recommend that you read the manga as well.

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