Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance Arc (Season 2) has revealed a new trailer and confirmed an October 2024 premiere date. The anime is continuing the story and Makoto Shishio will finally be taking the stage. Studio LIDENFILMS is animating the reboot anime.
The first season of the Rurouni Kenshin reboot anime ended on December 14, 2023 after a total of 24 episodes. Hideyo Yamamoto directed the series at studio LIDENFILMS. The anime ended with Kenshin leaving the Kamiya Dojo to go back to Kyoto, where Shishio Makoto is going wild.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Arc was the longest arc in the manga. The new cast additions were revealed as shortly after the finale, while the sequel was announced a few days after. New important characters include:
- Makoto Furukawa as Makoto Shishio
- Daiki Yamashita as Seta Sojiro
- Aya Yamane as Misao Makimachi
- Yuichi Nakamura as Hiko Seijuro
Nobuhiro Watsuki wrote the Rurouni Kenshin manga, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999. They also serialized the sequel, Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc, which has been running in the magazine since 2017.
Studios Gallop and DEEN animated the first anime adaptation, which ran for 95 episodes from January 1996 to September 1998. The franchise also has multiple OVA episodes, games, as well as a live-action adaptation which adapted the entire manga over 5 movies:
- Rurouni Kenshin: Origins (2012)
- Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
- Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
- Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
- Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)
Viz Media licensed the original Rurouni Kenshin manga series in English. Kyoto Arc starts in volume 8 of the manga, for which the story is described as:
In the 11th year of Meiji, on the day marked in the Western calendar as May 14th, time once again begins to flow. The shocking midday murder of Department of Internal Affairs Chief Okubo a fait accompli, Kenshin leaves for Kyoto, scene of chaos and bloodshed–against the wishes of nearly everyone who knows him as the gentle “rurouni.” Awaiting him there is Shishio Makoto, the hitokiri who replaced the cold-eyed assassin Himura Battosai who forswore further killing and took up the reversed-blade sakabatô. But does Kenshin go to Kyoto for a duel…or for a death-match?!
Source: Official Website
© Nobuhiro Watsuki/Shueisha, “Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story” Production Committee
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