Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance (Season 2) has revealed a new visual as well as a trailer for the opening theme song. Tatsuya Kitani and natori perform the song titled “Chained”. The anime will premiere on October 3, with LIDENFILMS in charge of animation. The announcement was made at the Aniplex Online Fest 2024 event.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance – New Trailer Featuring Tatsuya Kitani x Natori Opening Theme Song
The new cast members are allies of Makoto Shishio and include:
Haruka Tomatsu as Yumi KomagataWataru Hatano as Anji YukyuzanNobuhiko Okamoto as Cho Sawagejo
The characters are also featured in the new image, along with the main cast.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance – New Visual
The ending theme song “suikousetten” by NOMELON NOLEMON was previewed in the trailer. Yuki Komada will direct the new film, with series composition by Hideyuki Kurata, character designs by Terumi Nishii and Kazuo Watanabe, and music by Yuu Takami.
The anime is based on a manga written by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999, while a sequel, Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc, began in 2017. Viz Media licensed the manga in English. The Kyoto Incident arc begins in Volume 8 of the manga, which is described as:
In the 11th year of Meiji, on what is now known in the Western calendar as May 14, time begins to flow once more. With the shocking midday assassination of Home Affairs Director Okubo a fait accompli, Kenshin departs for Kyoto, amid chaos and bloodshed—against the wishes of nearly everyone who knew him as the gentle “rurouni.” Awaiting him is Shishio Makoto, the hitokiri who has replaced the cold-eyed assassin Himura Battosai, who has sworn more murder and taken up the reverse-bladed sakabatô. But has Kenshin come to Kyoto to duel…or to fight to the death?
Source: Official Website, Aniplex Online Festival 2024
© Nobuhiro Watsuki/Shueisha, “Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji
