The manga has previously inspired TV anime, theatrical film, 3 OVAs
Kodoani.com – Shueisha’s Jump Festa ’22 event on Sunday revealed that the manga Rurouni Kenshin of Nobuhiro Watsuki will have a new TV anime project at LIDEN FILMS. The event did not reveal any other details about the anime. Aniplex is streaming an intro video to announce the work.
Watsuki and novelist Kaoru Kurosaki created the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan : Hokkaido-hen) manga in Jump SQ magazine. in September 2017. The series went on hiatus in December 2017 after Watsuki was accused of possessing child pornography. The series was then resumed in June 2018. The series recently took a two-month hiatus in June and July. Shueisha published the manga’s sixth volume on July 2.
Viz Media simultaneously published the manga in English, but stopped it after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
Watsuki created the first 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga and published it in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The series has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga revolves around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life outside of the vicious circle of violence.
Since then, the manga has inspired a 95-episode television anime series, an anime, three original anime video projects, five live-action films, and a musical by the all-girl musical group Takarazuka Revue.
The live-action film Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Final opens in Japan on April 23, and the live-action film Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Beginning opens in Japan on June 4.
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