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Rurouni Kenshin (manga)

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Alternative title:
Kenshin (German)
Kenshin Le Vagabond (French)
Kenshin, el Guerrero Samurai (Spanish)
Kenshin, Samurai Vagabondo (Italian)
Kenshin: O Samurai Errante (Portuguese)
Ruroken
Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (Japanese)
Samurai X (Portuguese)
Samurai X : La vida de un espadachín en la era Meiji (Spanish)
Бродяга Кэнщин (Russian)
るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪満譚― (Japanese)
神劍闖江湖 (Chinese (Taiwan))
바람의 검심 (Korean)
Genres: action, drama, romance
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: During the violent era known as the Bakumatsu, there was an Ishin assassin known only as the Hitokiri Battousai, whose skill and brutality became near legendary in the age of Restoration he helped to build. However, as the time of fighting drew to a close, he vanished without a trace, only to resurface eleven years later as a wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin. Now staying at a kenjutsu dojo maintained by a fiery-tempered woman named Kamiya Kaoru, and surrounded by newfound friends like the streetfighter Sagara Sanosuke, ex-samurai's son Myoujin Yahiko, and the shrewd doctor Takani Megumi, he seeks to carry out his vow to protect the weak without killing in order to atone for the lives he's taken. It's not long, though, before this vow is put to the test, and the shadows of his past return to haunt him and everyone he holds dear.
User Ratings: 1254 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 479 votes (Eng:213, sub:127, dub:84, ?:14, edit.dub:6, raw:4, raw:1, others:30
6 Spanish
4 Portuguese
4 Spanish dubbed
3 French
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
2 German
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Traditional Chinese
1 French edited dub
1 Italian
1 French dubbed
1 Polish dubbed
)
 Excellent: 389 votes (Eng:194, sub:89, dub:54, ?:9, raw:6, raw:5, edit.dub:4, others:28
4 Portuguese
4 Spanish
3 German
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
2 Spanish subtitled
2 French
2 Indonesian
1 French subtitled
1 Swedish
1 Korean dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 German edited dub
1 French dubbed
1 Italian
)
 Very good: 202 votes (Eng:112, sub:34, dub:27, ?:5, raw:4, raw:2, others:18
5 French
2 German
1 Portuguese
1 Italian dubbed
1 Italian
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish
1 German dubbed
1 +
1 Russian
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 100 votes (Eng:60, sub:19, dub:13, raw:1, others:7
1 Italian
1 French
1 Indonesia
1 Spanish
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Swedish
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Decent: 47 votes (Eng:33, sub:7, dub:4, others:3
2 Spanish
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 16 votes (Eng:9, sub:2, dub:2, ?:1, others:2
2 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:3, Eng:2, dub:1)
 Weak: 6 votes (Eng:2, sub:2, dub:1, raw:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (raw:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (Eng:4, sub:1, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2591 users, rank: #9 (of 6688)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.784 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.4756, rank: #262 (of 7390)
Weighted mean: 8.716 (Excellent−), rank: #342 (of 7390) (seen all: 8.99 / seen some: 8.24 / won't finish: 6.42)
Bayesian estimate: 8.712 (Excellent−), rank: #28 (of 3481)
Number of tankoubon: 28
Number of pages: 180
Volumes:
#01. Kenshin - Himura Battousai
#01. The Meijin Romantic Story
#02. Two Hitokiri
#03. A Reason to Act
#04. Two Conclusions
#05. Meiji Kenjutsu Patterns
#06. No Need for Worry
#07. May 14, 1878
#08. Along the Meiji Toukaidou
#09. Arrival in Kyoto
#10. Teacher and Student of Mitsurugi
#11. Prelude to Destruction
#12. Great Kyoto Fire
#13. A Beautiful Evening
#14. The Promised Time is Now
#15. A Giant Man vs. A Super Man
#16. Divine Providence
#17. Conclusion - The One Who Decides the Era
#18. Is the Cross-Shaped Scar Still There?
#19. Illusion and Reality
#20. Reminiscence
#21. And So the Times Flowed
#22. Three-Sided Battle
#23. Consciousness of Crime and Punishment
#24. End of the Dream
#25. Truth
#26. A Man's Back
#27. An Answer
#28. Toward a New Era
Chapter titles: We have 259
Vintage:
1994-04-12 to 1999-09-20 (Shonen Jump, 1994 #19 - 1999 #43)
2003-10-07 to 2006-07-04 (North America)
2003-12-22 to 2005-12-23 (México)
2004-07 (German "Kenshin Kaden Guidebook")
2005-11-01 (English "Profiles" Artbook)
Release dates: We have 316
Links: We have 10
Trivia: We have 3
Review:
Rurouni Kenshin GN 18 (Oct 2, 2005)
News: Show:
Viz Media (Dec 8, 2007)
Anime Expo Updates (Apr 19, 2002)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Nobuhiro Watsuki

Assistant Artist:
Eiichiro Oda
Hiroyuki Takei
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shueisha
English staff
English cast
Translation: Kenichiro Yagi

Adaptation:
Gerard Jones (vol. 1-20)
Pancha Diaz (vol. 22-28) 
Associate Managing Editor: Albert Totten
Cover Design:
Sean Lee (vol. 1-13)
Design: Matt Hinrichs (vol. 14-28)
Director of Licensing & Acquisitions: Rika Inouye
Editing:
Avery Gotoh (vol. 1-16)
Kit Fox (vol. 19, 20, 26, 27) 
Editor-in-Chief: Hyoe Narita
Editorial Director: Alvin Lu
Graphic Design:
Matt Hinrichs (vol. 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24) 
Sean Lee (vol. 1-12)
Interior Design: Matt Hinrichs (vol. 13)
Layout Design:
Sean Lee (vol. 1-12)
Lettering: Steve Dutro
Production manager: Noboru Watanabe
Publisher: Seiji Horibuchi
Supervising Editor:
Kit Fox
William Flanagan
Touch-up Art: Steve Dutro
VP of Marketing: Liza Coppola
(none)
English companies
Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Editor: G2 Pro (vol. 17-18)
Licensed by: Viz Media
Online Distribution: MANGA Plus
Publisher: Gollancz Manga (UK)
French cast
French staff
(none)
French companies
Licensed by: Glenat (France)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation:
Agustín Gomez Sanz (Editorial IVREA, Argentina)
Albert Agut (Spain)
Marc Bernabé (Glènat)

Consultant: Enric Piñeyro (Spain)
Editing:
Eva Lechuga (Spain)
Félix Sabaté (Spain)
Joan Navarro (Spain)
Graphic Design:
Dani Barbero (Spain)
Diego Mallo (Spain)
Lettering: Albert Agut (Spain)
Operations Manager: Enrique Espinosa (Grupo Editorial Vid)
Publishing Director: Carlos Francisco Jiménez (Grupo Editorial Vid)
Responsible Editor: Teresa Ponce Torres (Grupo Editorial Vid)
(none)
Spanish companies
Licensed by:
Grupo Editorial Vid (Mexico; expired)
Panini Comics (Mexico; 2019)
Production: Editorial Ivréa
Publisher:
Editorial Ivréa (Argentina)
Glénat España (Spain)
Grupo Editorial Vid (México)
Panini Comics (Spain; since 2012)
Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Glénat España)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German companies
(none)
German cast
(none)
Dutch cast
Dutch staff
(none)
Dutch companies
Publisher: Glénat Benelux
Polish staff
Polish cast
Translation: Zbigniew Kiersnowski
(none)
Polish companies
Publisher: Egmont Polska
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Translation:
Karen Kazumi Hayashida (novel vol. 1)
Luiz Octávio Kobayashi
Soko Miyake (Portugal)

Edition: Rui Santos (Portugal)
Graphic Adaptation: Ana Lopes (Portugal)
Proofreading: Maria Luísa Candeias (Portugal)
Subtitling: Nuno Murjal (Portugal)
(none)
Portuguese companies
Distributor: Viz Media Europe (Portugal)
Imprint: Guide (Portugal)
Publisher:
Devir (Portugal)
JBC (Brazil)
Swedish staff
Swedish cast
Translation: Magnus Johansson
(none)
Swedish companies
Serialized In: Shonen Jump Sweden
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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