“Fighter” After a long wait, we have our second chapter of Kinema-Ban, and my reactions are fairly close to what they were after the first. This still feels like Rurouni Kenshin, which places it head and shoulders above the non-Watsuki attempts to cash in on the series’ popularity. But it’s […] Read more
“The Beginning of the Romantic Tale” Never, ever did I imagine that one day I’d be blogging new Rurouni Kenshin manga. It would be hard to overstate how important Watsuki Nobuhiro’s manga is to a certain stripe of fans, of a certain generation. RK was the first manga I finished, […] Read more
So this is what Watsuki is up to. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet, but I don’t think I like it much. The May issue of Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine revealed on Wednesday that Nobuhiro Watsuki’s new Kenshin manga series, Rurouni Kenshin -Cinema-ban- (Rurouni Kenshin: Cinema Version), […] Read more
“Cage of Flames” Where in the world do I begin… I have a lot of stuff I’m carrying with me going into Shin Kyoto-hen. I’ve written on the subject before, but I’m a huge Rurouni Kenshin fan. It may have been the first anime that I fully embraced as an […] Read more
I never would have expected this. No word yet on what “brief run” and “reboot” mean, but can we possibly hope that this, at long last, will push us towards the Holy Grail of adaptations, the Jinchu Arc? As surprising as this news is, it’s easy to forget Watsuki-sensei is […] Read more
Otherwise, I hardly see the need to remake the Kyoto Arc. And in two episodes at that, and in OVA form. It’s hard not to be bitterly disappointed by this news. None of the things I’d hoped for – Jinchu Arc, full TV series, new studio – came to pass. […] Read more
I only dared to speculate in my RK post last month, and I’ve been hoping for it for a decade, but we finally have news today that Rurouni Kenshin has a new anime project in the works. It would hard to overstate how important RK is to my identity as […] Read more
In the effort to keep myself from becoming too distraught by the events occurring in Northeast Japan, I’ve been revisiting an old favorite – and when I say “old favorite” I mean it. Rurouni Kenshin was one of the very first anime I ever watched, and was the very first […] Read more