April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
8h 30m
English
Stacey Jocoy
The international popularity of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s character Rurouni Kenshin has resulted in a long-standing franchise that started conventionally with manga (1994) and anime (1996–1998) but has since expanded through Original Video Animations (OVAs), light novels, movies, and several video games.1 Set early in the period of the Meiji Restoration (c. 1870s), Watsuki’s story focuses on a former assassin, a young soldier traumatized by the horrific experiences of the recent Bakamatsu.2 Rather than telling an action story through an iconic Samurai stereotype, Watsuki chose to tell a historical action-romance, using a bishonen (beautiful ...
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