The official web site for the brand new tv anime venture based mostly on Nobuhiro Watsuki‘S Rurouni Kenshin manga revealed the primary main visible and second promotional video for the second season of the brand new anime, titled Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Kyoto Doran (Kyoto Upheaval), on Sunday. The video reveals and previews the ending theme track for the primary episode of the second season course (quarter of a 12 months) titled “Suikōsetten” by NOMELON NOLEMON.
The anime workers additionally introduced its previews on the TOHO Cinemas Nihonbashi in Tokyo and in T Pleasure Kyoto cinemas on September 22. The preview places symbolize the start line (Nihonbashi in Tokyo) and the top level (Kyoto) of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō, the resting locations alongside the Tōkaidō coastal route in historical Japan and the identical route that protagonist Kenshin Himura took to journey to Kyoto.
The brand new season will premiere in October on Fuji TV‘S Like witches programming block and will likely be broadcast for 2 consecutive hours course (quarter of a 12 months) for half a 12 months.
Yuki Komada (CONSTRUCTION PART -#000000- CODE BLACK And CONSTRUCTION-DIVISION -#FFFFFF- CODE WHITE sequence) directs the brand new season at LIDEN FILMS. Hideyuki Kurata returns for sequence scripts, Terumi Nishii additionally returns to design the character, and is joined by Kazuo Watanabe (first season sub-character designer, chief animation director). Yu Takami composes the music once more.
The primary season of the brand new anime premiered on Fuji TV‘S Like witches programming block and different places in July 2023. The anime ran for 2 consecutive course (quarter of a 12 months). The second course began in October 2023. Crispy bread streamed the sequence because it aired, and can be streaming an English model dub.
The anime is an adaptation of the primary manga sequence.
Soma Saito stars within the sequence as Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi fellow actors similar to Kaoru Kamiya. Taku Yashiro performs Sanosuke Sagara, and Makoto Koichi votes Yahiko Myojin. Keep in order for you votes Shinomori Aoshi, and Saori Onishi voice of Megumi Takani. Satoshi Hino performs Hajime Saitō.
The anime additionally options:
Watsuki and his novelist/storyteller Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō hen) manga in Shueisha‘S Spring SQ. journal in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 after Watsuki was charged with possession of kid pornography. The sequence later resumed in June 2018.
Viz Media additionally revealed the manga in English on the identical time, however stopped doing so after the manga was shelved in 2017.
Watsuki first launched his 28-piece Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha‘S Weekly Shonen Soar journal in 1994. The manga has offered over 72 million copies worldwide. The manga facilities on Kenshin Himura, as soon as a lethal murderer through the Meiji Restoration, who tries to discover a new life past violence.
The manga has since been tailored right into a 95-episode TV anime sequence, an anime movie, three authentic video anime initiatives, 5 live-action movies, and a musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.
Sources: Rurouni Kenshin animes web site, Cartoon Natalie