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New Rurouni Kenshin Anime's 2nd Season Debuts in October, Airs for Continuous Half Year
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The first season of the new anime streaming an English dub.
The anime re-adapts the main manga series.
Satoshi Hino plays Hajime Saitō.
Yū Takami composed the music.
Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator resumed publication in June 2018.
publishing the manga in English, but stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence.
The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode TV anime series, an anime film, three original video anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage Takarazuka Revue.
Source: Fuji TV Anime Lineup Press Conference 2024 livestream
