Rurouni Kenshin (1996)

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan / るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-

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In “Rurouni Kenshin”, the swordsman Kenshin Himura has left his past behind. Gone are the days when he was feared among the populace as “Battousai” because he committed numerous murders as a contract killer. Nowadays, he is a wandering vagabond, ironclad to his vow not to cause any more deaths and to fight only to protect. To this end, he uses a sword with the blunt and sharp sides reversed to defeat his opponents, but not necessarily kill them.

One day, his path leads him to Tokyo, where a swordsman called “Battousai” is causing not only terror but also death. Kenshin meets Kaoru Kamiya, whose doujou teaches a predominantly defensive style of sword fighting. After Kenshin rescues the young woman, she offers him shelter in the doujou. Kenshin helps her again but reveals himself to be the real Battousai; Kaoru still wants him to stay. Kenshin accepts this welcome change from his current nomadic lifestyle.

Only a short time later, Kaoru receives her first student in the young and stubborn Yahiko, while Kenshin finds a friend in the mercenary Sanosuke, even though he had previously threatened his life. So Kenshi spends his time in the Doujou and soon realises there is always something to do in such a big city, but he can never quite shake off his past.
In »Rurouni Kenshin« hat der Schwertkämpfer Kenshin Himura seine Vergangenheit hinter sich gelassen. Vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen er als »Battousai« unter der Bevölkerung gefürchtet war, weil er als Auftragsmörder zahlreiche Morde beging. Heutzutage ist er ein wandernder Vagabund, der eisern an seinem Schwur festhält, keine Tode mehr zu verursachen und lediglich zu kämpfen, um zu beschützen. Dafür nutzt er ein Schwert, bei dem stumpfe und scharfe Seite vertauscht sind, um damit seine Gegner zwar zu besiegen, aber nicht zwingend zu töten.

Eines Tages führt ihn sein Weg nach Tokio, wo ein Schwertkämpfer unter der Bezeichnung »Battousai« nicht nur für Schrecken, sondern auch Tote sorgt. Kenshin trifft dabei auf Kaoru Kamiya, deren Dojo einen vorwiegend defensiven Schwertkampfstil unterrichtet. Nachdem Kenshin die junge Frau gerettet hat, lässt diese ihn im Dojo gastieren. Kenshin hilft ihr ein weiteres Mal, gibt sich aber als der wahre Battousai zu erkennen; Kaoru möchte dennoch, dass er bleibt. Kenshin nimmt diese Einladung an, denn schließlich ist so eine Abwechslung von Wandererleben nicht die schlechteste Idee.

Nur wenig später erhält Kaoru mit dem jungen und störrischen Yahiko ihren ersten Schüler, während Kenshin im Söldner Sanosuke einen Freund findet, obwohl der ihm zuvor nach dem Leben getrachtet hat. So verbringt Kenshi seine Zeit im Dojo und merkt bald, dass es in einer so großen Stadt immer was zu tun gibt, er seine Vergangenheit aber auch nie so ganz abschütteln kann.
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A mediados del siglo XIX, la Revolución Meji significó el final del Shogunato y el principio de una nueva era para Japón. La victoria del bando reformista no hubiera sido posible sin la espada de un joven e implacable asesino apodado Hitokiri Battosai que tras el final del conflicto desapareció sin dejar rastro...
Diez años después, el legendario Hitokiri Battosai ha reaparecido en Tokio asesinando a todo el que se cruza en su camino. Cuando su escuela se ve implicada en los crímines, la joven Kaoru Kamiya, propietaria y muestra del dojo Kamiya, sale a su encuentro. En su ayuda acude Kenshin Himura, un espadachín vagabundo que defiende a los más débiles con su espada de filo invertido. ¿Es posible que este guerrero pelirrojo de aspecto inofensivo sea el verdadero Battosai?¡Aquí comienza la leyenda de Kenshin, el último samurai!
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  • Kenshin HIMURA

    Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it.

  • Kenshin HIMURA

    I will bear your pain for you now, and find a path of repentance.

  • Kenshin HIMURA

    A sword is a weapon. Whatever pretty names you give it, swordsmanship is a way to kill. She speaks as one who has never bloodied her hands. Kaoru-dono mantains a sweet, naïve lie. But in the face of such awful truth the naïve lie she tells is so much better. If this one had a wish it would only be that her lie would become the truth of this world.

  • Kenshin HIMURA

    You believe that the strong exist to cull the weak. To use them as food. But you are mistaken . . . The strong exist, not to feed off of the weak, but to protect them!

  • Kenshin HIMURA

    The scar of my past will determine my future!

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