The manga, as well as the first light novel and first guidebook, has received a complete North American release by Viz Media. A second anime television series adaptation by Liden Films has been announced. A series of five live-action theatrical films adaptations were released from 2012 to 2021. Many video games have also been released for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable consoles. Several art and guidebooks for Rurouni Kenshin have been published, and writer Kaoru Shizuka has authored three official light novels which were published by Shueisha. The first adapted stories from the manga that were not featured in the anime, while the second was a sequel to the manga. Besides an animated feature film, two series of original video animations (OVAs) were also produced. Studio Gallop, Studio Deen and SPE Visual Works adapted the manga into an anime television series, which aired in Japan from January 1996 to September 1998. The complete work consists of 28 tankōbon volumes, while years later it was reprinted into twenty-two kanzenban volumes. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from April 1994 to September 1999. The manga revolves around themes of atonement, peace, and romance. Watsuki wrote the series upon his desire to make a shōnen manga different from the other ones that were published at the time, with Kenshin being a former assassin and the story taking a more serious tone as it continued. After his work against the bakufu, Hitokiri Battosai disappears to become Himura Kenshin: a wandering swordsman who protects the people of Japan with a vow never to take another life. The story begins during the 11th year of the Meiji period in Japan (1878) and follows a former assassin from the Bakumatsu, known as Hitokiri Battosai. Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story ( Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Hepburn: Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan-) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki.

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