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  AAW: Rurouni Kenshin OAV: The Remembrance Review
Kenshin's internal struggle is truly internal--the only manifestation of it is the child's spinning top he owns, the only remaining vestige of his mangled childhood.
Kenshin's character seems straightforward enough--he can cause an entire room of men to fall silent simply by picking up his sword, he keeps a stack of books in his room simply because they're good to sleep against, and kills his targets without either mercy or hatred.
Rurouni Kenshin: the Remembrance was directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and this piece alone should be sufficient to rank him as one of the greatest directors of the '90s.
animeworld.com /reviews/rurounikenshinoav.html   (4579 words)

  
 Anime News Network - Rurouni Kenshin (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away.
Rurouni Kenshin - Soulless Knights (Dub.VHS 20) 2002-07-30
Rurouni Kenshin - Soulless Knights (Sub.VHS 20) 2002-07-30
www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=73   (809 words)

  
 Absolute Anime / Rurouni Kenshin / Kenshin Himura
Kenshin is a gentle, polite man who lives at the Kamiya Dojo with Kaoru and Yahiko.
Kenshin has a peculiar style of speech in which he uses "gozaru," an obsolete form of the verb "to be." He also uses the "samurai" pronoun "sessha," which is supposed to be polite.
Kenshin Himura was born a peasant under the name Shinta, with no family name.
www.absoluteanime.com /rurouni_kenshin/kenshin.htm   (371 words)

  
 ~* Rurouni Kenshin *~   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kenshin, whose birth name was actually Shinta, lost his parents at a very young age and was taken by slave traders.
At the age of 14, Kenshin left Hiko and was brought in by the Choshu faction to work as a hitokiri (assassin).
Kenshin makes a promise to cease his manslaughter after the revolution, and to live a new life a wanderer.
www.expage.com /mykenshin   (247 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first OVA series (Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen/Rurouni Kenshin: Recollection, split apart as Samurai X: Trust and Samurai X: Betrayal in the English language releases), set during the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate and telling of Kenshin's childhood and young adult life.
Kenshin's enemy, Jin-E, was physically based on Gambit while Shinomori Aoshi's long coat and the length of his double-kodachi (based on Gambit's cue stick/bo) are borrowed from the same character.
The cloak of Hiko Seijūrō, Kenshin's master, Watsuki admits in one of the manga commentaries was inspired by the cloak of Spawn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin   (1994 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Rurouni Kenshin: DVD: Kazuhiro Furuhashi,Mayo Suzukaze,Miki Fujitani,Yûji Ueda,Mîna Tominaga,Mika Doi,Yoku ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kenshin uses both his ability to fight and his ability to reach past barriers to find this value and turn the bitter warrior into a friend.
Kenshin's fierce determination to never kill again is matched by the close bond he forms with his friends.
Of course since Himura Kenshin is staying with Karou Kamiya at her dojo, the title of "Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai" is rather ironic.
www.amazon.ca /Rurouni-Kenshin-Kazuhiro-Furuhashi/dp/B00004TLMP   (1655 words)

  
 Animelab.com: Anime Series Selection: Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin is based in the Meiji era of Japan, after the Tokugawa regime had ended.
During the Restoration period, Kenshin was known as the Hitokiri Battousai and carved the way into the new era, the Meiji era.
Rurouni Kenshin is definitely one of the greatest anime shows I have ever seen.
www.animelab.com /anime.manga/series/Rurouni_Kenshin   (334 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rurouni Kenshin - Legendary Swordsman, Vol. 1: DVD: Mayo Suzukaze,Miki Fujitani,Yûji Ueda,Mîna ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The woman, Kaoru, invites Kenshin to stay at her father's kendo dojo, and he comes to her aid when she is attacked by a disgraced student.
The man in question, Himura Kenshin, is not in fact the killer she's looking for -- but he was a killer, once, and he's only too happy to explain (in his curiously sheepish manner) that his sword, with the blade on the wrong side, isn't designed to kill.
Kenshin moves in and promptly makes himself welcome with Kaoru and her family - willing to cook, clean, and entertain the neighboring children rather than rest on his samurai laurels.
www.amazon.com /Rurouni-Kenshin-Legendary-Swordsman-Vol/dp/1586551027   (2351 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin
Kenshin wandered the countryside for nearly eleven years; the world presumed him dead or lost.
Kenshin is a man who is trying to escape his past, and create a future for himself.
Ultimately, Kenshin frees her from her forced employment and she becomes the neighborhood doctor, providing medical assistance for not only Kenshin and the others but all the people who live in the area.
www.ex.org /4.1/04-feature_ruroken1.html   (1030 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin|Samurai X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kenshin's tragedy concludes amid the falling cherry blossoms that symbolize the evanescent life of a samurai.
All of us would like for Kenshin to be more respected at the end of his life by the people he has helped so much: the government (and by extension, the people of Japan), but the fact is, Kenshin never cared about such things, at the end, he got what he wanted….
The penultimate "Rurouni Kenshin" DVD offers up the end of one major story arc in from the "Tales of the Meiji" period and the start of the final story arc for the masterless, roving samurai named Himura Kenshin, with only a single comic relief episode in between the two.
www.rurouni-kenshin.info   (2194 words)

  
 ++ Anime Otaku Fridge :::: Rurouni Kenshin ++
Kenshin himself goes through so much explanation and transformation that you really start to feel that he could have been a major part that lead to the creation of the real life Meiji government.
The second part of the show, or where Kenshin leaves to go to Kyoto to stop the Battousai who took his place from destroying the new Meiji government is filled with some of the most powerful use of characters and wonderful battle scenes I have ever seen in any show in the world.
Kenshin's sword, the Sakabatou was such an amazing idea that I had to believe someone really had invented it sometime in the past and was borrowed to further add to Kenshin's character but no, the author really did invent the reverse blade sword that Kenshin is now famous for.
www.otakufridge.com /html_anime/anime_rurounikenshin.shtml   (891 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rurouni Kenshin, Vol. 1: Books: Nobuhiro Watsuki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rurouni Kenshin takes place ten years into the Meji era (a time of peace in Japan after the revolution).
Kenshin was an asassin, or hitokiri, during the revolution.
Kenshin- the legendary swordsman Himura Battousai in the Bakumatsu.
www.amazon.com /Rurouni-Kenshin-Vol-Nobuhiro-Watsuki/dp/1591162203   (1932 words)

  
 ++ Anime Otaku Fridge :::: Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen / Reflection (OVA 2) ++
Sure, it was okay to be depressive with the first OAV (hell, Kenshin's past was grim), but somehow, I feel as if this second one lacked a certain transition.
I wouldn't mind half as much if they were able to infuse a bit of the happier memories (of Kaoru and Kenshin's life together) so at least there would be a different sense of fulfillment after everything that has happened.
In this OAV, Kenshin meets up with the shadows of his past, triggering a series of events that ended in bittersweet triumph of life over death.
www.otakufridge.com /html_anime/anime_rurounikenshinova2.shtml   (1091 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Himura Kenshin was previously known as Battousai, the Manslayer, the reknowned and deadly assassin (hitokiri) of the Ishin Shishi during the Japanese revolution of 1867-1868.
Well, at age 13 Kenshin left the home and tutelage of his sensei, Hiko, to join in the revolution against the Shogunate, where all his exploits began.
While Kenshin can be a very mild-mannered, polite and amical fellow at the time of the story, this is only the flip side of the coin, so to speak.
www.angelfire.com /anime4/neesachan/synopses/ruken/index.html   (976 words)

  
 Anime News Network - Rurouni Kenshin (manga)
Plot Summary: During the violent era known as the Bakumatsu, there was an Ishin assassin known only as the Hitokiri Battousai, whose skill and brutality became near legendary in the age of Restoration he helped to build.
However, as the time of fighting drew to a close, he vanished without a trace, only to resurface eleven years later as a wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin.
It's not long, though, before this vow is put to the test, and the shadows of his past return to haunt him and everyone he holds dear.
www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1995   (346 words)

  
 Animetric.com >> Anime Reviews >> Rurouni Kenshin / Wandering Samurai (TV series)
Kenshin Himura is a wandering samurai with a dark past...
Rurouni Kenshin could've been a 5-star anime had they stayed completely faithful to Mr.
Kenshin's mysterious past is given light in the OAV series.
www.animetric.com /qrs/rk.html   (556 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translations
Kenshin has a drastically different voice in the anime dub than he did in my editing, but that voice, that slightly weary, everyman voice, worked.
Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translations shall herein be updated by his evil twin.
Not my Kenshin!" and imagines billions of Dragonball Z-style fanatics jumping onto the bandwagon, take pride that you are one of the many people who discovered it before it went mainstream.
pomi.sandwich.net /ruroken   (4096 words)

  
 Animetric.com >> Anime Reviews >> Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X (OAV series)
Soon, Kenshin becomes one of the most feared assassins of the Tokugawa era -- for beneath the boyish frame and face lies a merciless killer of unparalleled skill.
Rurouni Kenshin the OAV series is awesome to say the least, and you can enjoy it without any Rurouni Kenshin background.
Rurouni Kenshin the OAV series is easily one of the best OAVs out there, and that's coming from one whose fave genre isn't even action.
www.animetric.com /qrs/rkoav.html   (472 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin
The pungent stench of death soon became intolerable to Himura Kenshin; he decides to atone for his sins by living a life of peace and virtual anonymity.
Adopting the sakabatou (a non-lethal sword with a reversed blade) rather than a katana, Kenshin sets forth on a journey to maintain peace rather than promote death.
The definitive anime that involves swordplay (and believe me, that's a large genre in Japan), Rurouni Kenshin is a rich, involving story that throws you for an emotional loop...
www.animeacademy.com /finalrevdisplay.php?id=4   (964 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin: Kaoru, Ecstatic - TV.com
Kaoru starts daydreaming about Kenshin asking her to marry him, the wedding, the wedding night and we break to Kaoru passed out flat on her back in the middle of the street with Tae leaning over her.
Kenshin goes fishing and comes back with a catfish.
Kenshin takes a bite of fish and bites into a ring.
www.tv.com /rurouni-kenshin/kaoru-ecstatic/episode/240829/summary.html   (332 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is about a wandering swordsman with a dark past named Himura Kenshin, who decides to end his traveling days and stay at the Kamiya Dojo with Kaoru.
Throughout the series, Kenshin must face people from his past who threaten his new home at the dojo or his loved ones.
Kenshin and Kaoru are my favorite anime couple so I like to draw the two together a lot.
www.students.sonoma.edu /users/b/behn/rurouni.htm   (162 words)

  
 Julie's Anime Reviews: Rurouni Kenshin
The basic premise: Himura Kenshin was an assassin in the Meiji Restoration in Japan where the samurai (and the class system as a whole) lost its power so Japan could accept Western ways.
He had been an amazing killer, but now he wanders around and wields a sakaba (reversed-blade) sword (the sharp side is towards him, so he can wound, but not kill) to atone for the wrongs he has done.
Kenshin and the others have done bad things, yes, but only because they thought they were right at the time.
www.juliestudio.com /anime/reviews/kenshin.html   (1224 words)

  
 SPECTRUM NEXUS » Rurouni Kenshin Manga Scans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Witness the final story of Rurouni Kenshin the way it was meant to be.
I don't have a set schedule for the Kenshin scans, but I may announce it in the index page.
I don't plan to host earlier volumes, since those take place in the anime series itself, and it is also being released by Viz Comics.
www.thespectrum.net /manga_kenshin.shtml   (345 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin - The NightWitch Tales
Enter the world of the Nightwitch Tales, a series of fanfics set in an alternate reality Rurouni Kenshin universe full of supernatural creatures and dark sorcery.
A mysterious and extraordinary woman visits Kenshin in the middle of the night to ask him some critical questions.
Rurouni Kenshin characters and images are the property of and copyrighted by their respective creators, distributors, and legally associated parties.
www.madamhydra.net /NWT.html   (221 words)

  
 Rurouni Kenshin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rurouni Kenshin, a work of Nobuhiro Watsuki, started out as a manga (a term for japanese comic book) before it became the popular anime series.
The hero in the story is a samurai named Himura Kenshin who used to be an assassin, well known as the Hitokiri Battousai.
RUROUNI KENSHIN © by Nobuhiro Watsuki, Jump Comics, Shueisha, Sony Entertainment, and SPE Visual.
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 Rurouni Kenshin
Enter Kenshin, whose fighting skills were honed by the great swordsman Hiko.
Kenshin's soul is embattled much like the killing fields of Japan.
His world is thrown into further confusion by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Tomoe.
www.animecornerstore.com /ruronikenshin.html   (150 words)

  
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 Rurouni Kenshin Fanfiction Webring
Rurouni Kenshin characters and all related slogans and indicia are trademarks of Watsuki Nobuhiro-tono, Shueisha, Jump Comics, Fuji TV and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
This WebRing is not affiliated with nor endorsed by them, and is intended solely for the personal use and enjoyment of the general public according to Fair Use provisions.
Other Rurouni Kenshin pairings such as Sanosuke/Megumi, Aoshi/Misao, Misao/Soujiro are also included.
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