The Rurouni Kenshin Apr 2026

In the autumn of 1880, Tokyo is a city of brass bands, silk top hats, and festering shadows. Former samurai, now destitute, drift into crime or drink. The police are undermanned; the government, paranoid.

Kaoru runs after him in the mist.

walks the muddy roads outside the capital. He is small, red-haired, boyish-faced, with an X-shaped scar on his left cheek. He carries a sakabatō —a katana forged with the edge on the wrong side. He sleeps in shrines, eats rice balls from charity, and never draws blood. The villagers call him rurouni —a wanderer, a cloud drifting without purpose. The Rurouni Kenshin