Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Samurai X, Wandering Kenshin: Romantic Tales from the Meiji Era
Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
94
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Jan 10, 1996 to Sep 8, 1998
Premiered:
Winter 1996
Broadcast:
Wednesdays at 19:30 (JST)
Source:
Manga
Demographic:
Shounen
Duration:
25 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Ranked:
#2772
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Popularity:
#450
Members:
495,685
Favorites:
10,235
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Your Feelings Categories Jan 31, 2009
Absolutely horrible. I don't know what can make a series so unwatchable while its OVA and movies were fantastic. The lame excuses of jokes that this anime try to come up with makes you want to hop off a cliff. Kenshin totally does not possess the aura of a fighter but rather a klutz and fails at being funny. Even during the fights, it is just ridiculously stupid. E.g. forgot the name but there was this one villain who has a blade that reeks of the fats of the victims that he slaughtered in the past that when he fights his blade becomes coated
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Apr 22, 2009
I tried to give this series a chance. Over the course of two years I started the anime over and over, to try and find something worth watching. Each time I would restart and after a few episodes, I would lose interest. Today, I made it to five episodes deep and it is the final nail in the coffin. With all the fan fair and reviews, I thought that it would be an epic anime. This just is not the case. In the end the plot and the story were not entertaining for what I expected. The story had potential, but there was very little
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Jun 6, 2021
Rurouni Kenshin
This work has undoubtedly a deserved cult status for its performance at the time. Many still see her as a heavyweight of her time and would call this shounen even today one of the best. Note, I only watched the anime adaptation and not read the manga. The manga is supposed to be better and also have a different ending, I don't know about this. At the time, he was definitely one of the more individual anime among the anime. The portrayal of the old Japanese era in which there was a lot of cruelty has given the series a certain atmosphere. Apart from that, the ... |