New Rurouni Kenshin anime will air in July

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Fuji TV announced on March 22, 2023 that a new television anime project based on Nobuhiro Watsuki’s Rurouni Kenshin manga will premiere in July. Anime staff revealed an image featuring the four main characters:

• Souma Saitou will play the main character Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi will play Kaoru Kamiya.
• Taku Yashiro will play the role of Sanosuke Sagara.
• Makoto Koichi plays the role of Yahiko Myojin.

Hideyo Yamamoto is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Terumi Nishii is designing the characters, and Hideyuki Kurata is writing the script. Yū Takami composed the music.

Watsuki and his wife novelist/story writer Kaoru Kurosaki launched the manga Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) in Jump SQ. by Shueisha in September 2017.

Watsuki launched the 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga for the first time 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 an assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is now trying to find a new life free of violence.

The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode television anime series, an anime film, three OVA projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe. .

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