The Story and Plot of Rurouni Kenshin is really interesting, and i also like the realism mixed in with some of the shounen elements; it made it that much more enjoyable. The story can go from being happy to dark with sad very intense moments; its a variety of emotions.
I honestly felt for its time the art was very clean and crisp while the animation was also very good as well. It really has that 90's spirit in its production work with both its art and animation.
The Characters were the strong points of this anime . I loved every single character both in design and personality; very well made characters. Even side characters had a bit of depth to them.
The Music was composed by both Taro Iwashiro and Noriyuki Asakura. Every single composed music track in this anime is absolutely amazing and memorable. It fits the anime in many different contrasting ways. Even the opening and ending themes are great like T.M. Revolution's "Heart of Sword" for example.
This is also one of the rare anime's where i prefer the dub compared to the sub. However this is an opinion and all up to preference.
My only gripe with the series is some of the "subtle" filler i did not pick up on. The filler in Rurouni Kenshin is very subtle in the range of episodes 10 to 20 but try's to flow into the canon. However when it comes to episodes 63-94 this is not the case. This is where the anime stops being canon and has anime only filler story's/arcs and doesn't follow the rest of the manga.
Regardless of this i highly recommend watching Rurouni Kenshin if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
