A preview cut of the 13th episode ``The End of the Death Battle'' of the new TV anime based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's popular manga ``Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story'' has been released. In episode 13, Takeda Kanryu uses a Gatling gun to rain bullets down on his subordinate Oniwabanshu in order to kill Himura Kenshin. The released cut depicts Kanryu holding a Gatling gun and smiling like crazy, Kenshin, and Aoshi Shinomori.
"Rurouni Kenshin" is a popular manga serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" from 1994 to 1999. The film depicts Kenshin Himura, who was feared as the Hitokiri Battousai at the end of the Edo period, as a wanderer who swore not to kill after the Meiji Restoration, searching for a way to live in a new era. The new chapter, ``Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, Hokkaido Arc-'' has been serialized in the monthly manga magazine ``Jump SQ.'' (Square) since 2017.
The new anime will be fully supervised by the original author, Watsuki, from character design to the scenario, and will reconstruct the original work from the first episode. It is currently being broadcast on Fuji TV's late-night anime slot "Noitamina" and elsewhere.
◇Cast
Himura Kenshin: Soma Saito ▽Kaoru Kamiya: Rie Rie Takahashi ▽Yahiko Sagara Sanosuke: Makoto Koichi▽Sanosuke Sagara: Taku Yashiro▽ Shinomori Aoshi: Yuma Uchida ▽Hajime Saito: Satoshi Hino