Rurouni Kenshin

Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心) is a set of manga and anime series created by artist Nobuhiro Watsuki, set during the early years of the Meiji period in Japan. The English versions of the OVAs as well as the movie are sold under the Samurai X name.

Jinchu Arc controversy

The television series and manga series of Rurouni Kenshin up to the end of the Kyoto Story Arc had been nearly identical in terms of plot with only minor differences. However when the television series caught up to the manga in terms of story the producers of the Rurouni Kenshin anime decided to diverge from Nobuhiro Watuski's manga and create their own story and characters. This led to the last arc of Rurouni Kenshin manga, the "Jinch?" story arc, to have been never animated. The Jinch? arc contains a large amount of Himura Kenshin's backstory including the meeting of his first love and the events that resulted in his infamous cross-shaped scar. The story arc is primarily focused on characters from Kenshin's years spent as the Hikokiri Batt?sai, who now want vengence for wrongs he once did them. Many fans felt the alternate stories and characters of the anime series were inferior to Watsuki's original storyline, and the VIZ translation of the manga's final arc (which spans volumes 18 through 28) is thus highly anticipated.

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