The X account (formerly Twitter) of Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Kyoto Dōran (Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance), the second season of a new television anime project based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga, has confirmed the cast cast on Monday for more character appearances starting with episode 31 on November 14.
Additional actors are:
Kentarō Itō as Hōji Sadojima image via X/Twitter account of the anime Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan
© 和月伸宏／集英社・ 「るろうに剣心－明治剣客浪漫譚－」製作委員会
Shigeru Chiba as Nenji Kashiwazaki (Okina) 
Image via Rurouni Kenshin The X/Twitter account of the anime Meiji Kenkaku Romantan
© 和月伸宏／集英社・ 「るろうに剣心 －明治剣客浪漫譚－」製作委員会
Ryō Sugisaki as Kurojō (rear right in image below)
Shō Okumura as Hirojō (rear left)
Yuka Amemiya as Masukami (Omasu) (front right)
Natsuki Aikawa as Ōmime (Ochika) (front left)
© 和月伸宏／集英社・ 「るろうに剣心 －明治剣客浪漫譚－」製作委員会
Yūya Hirose as Seiku Arai 
Image via Anime Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan X/Twitter account
© 和月伸宏／集英社・ 「るろうに剣心 －明治剣客浪漫譚－」製作委員会
Image via the Rurouni Kenshin franchise's official English X/Twitter account
©和月伸宏／集英社・ 「るろうに剣心 －明治剣客浪漫譚－ 京都動乱」製作委員会
The season premiered on October 3. On Fuji TV, the season takes place in the channel's Noitamina animation block. It was broadcast continuously for two seasons (a quarter of a year) for half a year. Crunchyroll streams the season as it airs and also begins streaming the English dub on October 24.
Crunchyroll describes this episode:
During the upheaval of the Bakumatsu Era, Imperialist Kenshin Himura was considered the leader of “Hitokiri Battosai.” Although he carries a sakabato in his hand, he vows never to kill again and spends his days living in the new era as a ruruoni.
On May 14, Meiji 11, one of the “Three Great Nobles of the Renaissance,” Toshimichi Okubo, was killed. Behind the scenes of this incident that would change times, Makoto Shishio planned to overthrow the Meiji government. Kenshin bids farewell to Kaoru Kamiya and sets off for Kyoto, where he plans to stop Makoto Shishio, the successor to the title “Hitokiri Battosai”.
Kenshin leaves his friends behind, meets new people, and fights against the Shishio clan. Caught between fate and the promise to never kill again, the curtain is once again raised on the second season of Rurouni Kenshin, a story filled with the memories and emotions of all involved !
Yuki Komada (BUILD-DIVIDE-#000000-CODE BLACK and BUILD-DIVIDE-#FFFFFF-CODE WHITE series) is directing the new installment at LIDEN FILMS. Hideyuki Kurata returned to write the series' scripts, Terumi Nishii also returned to design the characters, and was joined by Kazuo Watanabe (first season supporting character designer, animation director). Yū Takami is once again composing music.
The first season of the new anime premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block and other locations in July 2023. The anime ran for two consecutive blocks (a quarter of a year). The second course begins in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired and is also streaming the English dub.
Anime re-adaptation of the main manga series.
Watsuki and his novelist/story collaborator wife, Kaoru Kurosaki, launched the manga Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō-hen) in Shueisha Jump SQ magazine. magazine in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 after Watsuki was charged with possession of child pornography. The series later resumed publication in June 2018. The manga has been on hiatus since May, and the hiatus continues due to Watsuki's health.
Viz Media simultaneously published the manga in English, but stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
Watsuki first launched the 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga 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 beyond violence.
The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode anime television series, an anime film, three original video anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by a theater troupe. all female. Takarazuka Revue.
Source: Official X/Twitter account of the Rurouni Kenshin franchise account, Natalie Comics
