 https://myanimelist.net/anime/57554/ Plot Summary Second season of Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023). Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Oct 4, 2024 to ? Premiered: Fall 2024 Broadcast: Fridays at 00:55 (JST) Producers: None found, add some Licensors: None found, add some Studios: LIDENFILMS Source: Manga Genre: Action Themes: Historical, Samurai Demographic: Shounen Duration: Unknown Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older |
| Episode 25 To start things off, Kenshin agrees to go to Kyoto, but wants to get there his own way rather than subjecting others to the collateral damage he expects on the way there, and Saito is quite disappointed with that decision seeing that he wants nothing more than to fight the Battosai, something Kenshin has no intention of doing. And then Sanosuke and Saito fight as Sanosuke and Yahiko plans to make the trip himself to ensure that Kenshin makes it back alive, and while Sanosuke took a lot of hits, he manages to show his conviction. Yahiko convinces Kaoru to make the trip as well with Megumi watching over the dojo while everybody is out. Things pick up right where they left off quite nicely as this arc is where this series really made its mark, and Shishio is one of the best-written villains out there. So with that, the second of three arcs begins, and the original series becomes a fillerfest after the Kyoto arc ends. The third arc, Jinchu, would be partially adapted in Reflection, and I expect an announcement that it gets adapted as another two-cour series to come at the end of this season. |
| Kenshin's heading to Kyoto by himself. Saito tries to stop Sanosuke from following him, but Sanosuke is very persistent. Then Megumi breaks Kaoru out of her deep funk, and now Kaoru and Yahiko are on their way to Kyoto as well. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| I just finished binging all the live-action films on Netflix, so nice to see this. (Gotta say, those films had some impressive fighting, although Kenshin's weapon makes even less sense in live-action. He might as well just be hitting everyone with a piece of rebar.) |
| Episode 26 Kenshin is headed to Kyoto with Saito, and so are Sanosuke, Yahiko, and Kaoru who don't want this to potentially be the final time they see Kenshin. Also, Aoshi is making the trip after Saito tells him where he's going. Before that, he has some hoodlum monks who are defiling the graves of his fallen comrades that he has to take care of. Then Shishio's apprentice Sojiro drops by to let him know what he's up against in Kyoto. And then Kenshin runs into the ninja bandit Misao, who just conned some men out of their money. She tries to steal Kenshin's sword, only to find out that it's worthless as a reverse-blade sword. Misao is from Kyoto and went to Tokyo to search for somebody, but doesn't have the money to make the return trip, so she resorted to stealing, and then those guys come for her. Kenshin breaks the bridge seeing that he doesn't want to engage with them at this time. So through all this, Aoshi is going to Kyoto, while Kenshin now has somebody who can take him to Kyoto, but before that there's the matter of that missing person Misao is looking for that needs to be settled. |
| Now Aoshi is headed to Kyoto, and Makoto Shishio is looking to recruit him to his cause. Then Kenshin encounters Misao Makimachi, who is looking for Aoshi and the Oniwaban Group herself. How will she react when she finds out that Aoshi is the only one of them who's still alive? |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 27 Now knowing that Misao is after Aoshi, who Kenshin just fought and is the only man left from the Oniwaban, Kenshin tries to sake off Misao, but gives it up when Misao falls into the gorge and Kenshin had to jump in to save her. While that's going on, Sanosuke gets lost trying to figure out how to get to Kyoto, while Megumi continues handling patients, and Kaoru and Yahiko go the easy way by boarding a ship to Osaka. While searching for Aoshi, Kenshin stumbles upon a dying man and his younger brother Eiji he protected. Those guys are from Shingetsu Village, a place that was attacked by Shishio's henchmen led by Senkaku and now they are squatting there as the village is no longer recognized. Eiji sees that his parents were hung, and the guys responsible for the massacre show up. Kenshin fights them, but one of them sneaks up behind Eiji and Misao, but Saito appears and kills him as he's none too pleased that Kenshin is wasting his time in a place like this when he should be in Kyoto. This goes to show just how brutal a guy Shishio is, and while he's not in Kyoto, this place is connected to the mummy samurai as well. |
| Misao is quite persistent, refusing to quit following Kenshin despite his best efforts to shake her off. Then they find a dying man who protected his younger brother Eiji, who fled a village being occupied by one of Shishio's henchmen. After hearing that Shishio himself is in that village at the moment, Kenshin heads there, where he finds Eiji's parents hung in a public display. When the people responsible show up, Kenshin fights them, and Hajime arrives to take out one of them who spotted Misao and Eiji. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 29 As it turns out, Eiji's older brother Eiichiro was working with Saito on a secret mission seeing that he's from Shingetsu village, but he died protecting Eiji before he could complete it. Senkaku is holding Shingetsu village hostage and despite being ordered to not lower the corpses, Kenshin does just that. After that, Kenshin and Saito are off to confront Shishio inside the nearby mansion, while Misao stays behind to be with Eiji. Kenshin and Shishio have quite the heated exchange there as Kenshin is none too pleased about his reason for killing the village's residents. Before facing Shishio, he has to defeat Senkaku, who brags about killing 99 people. But Kenshin uses physics to defeat Senkaku as he went so fast, and while Senkaku matched his speed not realizing that he's going faster and faster that it puts a strain on his legs and it snaps. He launches a last-ditch attack, but that had no chance of landing a hit on Kenshin and a strike to the neck did the trick. So with Senkaku dealt with, it's now onto Shishio himself, though I know already that it won't be settled until they make it to Kyoto. |
| Eiji's brother was an agent working for the government, but he died protecting his family. Kenshin and Hajime head for Shishio's mansion, where the burned man talks about his plans for bringing chaos to Japan once more. Shishio sends in Senkaku, the man who killed Eiji's parents and brother, but Kenshin ends up wearing him out so much he ends up breaking his leg, and his final attack proves futile as Kenshin lands a blow to his neck to knock him out. But Shishio is not someone to be trifled with, as he was observing everything. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 29 After dealing with Senkaku giving him a broken leg and a badly bruised neck, Kenshin fights Sojiro as Shishio retreats to Kyoto telling Kenshin that they will settle the score in Kyoto. As Sojiro emits no sword aura that Kenshin can't use his signature techniques and instead it becomes a quick draw duel. Kenshin and Sojiro end up breaking each other's sword as Kenshin's reverse-blade sword is split in two, while Sojiro's sword is badly dented. Eiji is thirsting for revenge against Senkaku, but Saito tells him to back off and allow the police to take care of that for him. While that's happening, Sojiro is tasked with gathering Kyoto's Heavenly Blades. Afterwards, while Kenshin and Misao go to get a new sword before setting out for Kyoto, Eiji and Saito tie up loose ends at the village. Pretty much, there was no way that Kenshin and Saito were going to decide things in this village, and that's exactly what happens as Sojiro is somebody who was trained to counter Kenshin's techniques, and now Kenshin will need a new sword before continuing on. In the meantime, Sanosuke is lost in the forest. |
| Sojiro breaks Kenshin's sakabato, while the sword that Shishio lent him is badly damaged. Eiji tries to kill Senkaku, but Hajime and Kenshin put a stop to that. While Shishio returns to Kyoto, Sojiro has to gather the Ten Swords, Shishio's best men. Kenshin and Misao resume their trek to Kyoto, but Kenshin is going to need a new sword before facing Shishio again. Next episode will focus on Sanosuke, who is hopelessly lost in the forest. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Opening recap: Why Kenshin didn't slice his palm in half pressing upward against the sharp edge like that is beyond me. Anime physics strikes again. That said, Misao is a cute little shinobi. Was cute in the live-action too. |
SparkyBobNov 1, 2024 2:52 PM
SparkyBob said: That said, Misao is a cute little shinobi She's the best part about this season |
| Episode 30 Sanosuke gets hopelessly lost in the forest on the way to Kyoto, and along the way he meets Anji, a monk who's a Buddha devout. 10 years ago, Buddhism was abolished, and as such Anji is a fallen monk. He puts Sanosuke through some training to teach him Horiki seeing that after the beating he took from Saito, he needs to get stronger. So Sanosuke pounds away by pounding a rock with a fist aiming to shatter it. After all the pounding, he hurts his fists and the monk sees it increasingly futile, but he mastered the art of Horiki after a week of training himself to death. With that, it's onto Shimosuwa, where his father's army met their end on the next stop to Kyoto. As it turns out, Anji is one of the Heavenly Blades, though Anji isn't aware that he's siding with Kenshin. So now Sanosuke is a bit stronger after Anji had him pounding away. |
| Sanosuke meets the fallen monk Anji, and he takes it upon himself to learn the monk's technique that pulverizes rocks to dust, the Futae no Kiwami, or "Mastery of Two Layers." Anji took a month to learn the technique, but Sanosuke manages to do it in a week. The thing is, Anji is actually one of the Ten Swords, so Sanosuke will no doubt end up fighting him once he makes his way to Kyoto. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 31 Kenshin has arrived in Kyoto, back at the place where he made a name for himself as the Battosai. After taking Misao home, he has a chat with Nenji, who led the Oniwaban Clan while Kenshin was the Battosai. He agrees to keep the deaths about the Oniwaban Group sans Aoshi a secret from Misao. He's also looking for the swordsmith who made the reverse-blade sword, but Shakku Arai passed away eight years ago. So they seek his son Seiku instead, and sees that he's capable of making the reverse-blade sword after testing out a kitchen knife he made on a daikon. But Seiku has since stopped making swords seeing that in an era of peace there is no demand for them. However, there just might be a sword in storage somewhere that Shakku crafted before he died. In the meantime, Cho is getting ready to attack Kenshin as now Shishio knows that he has arrived in Kyoto. |
| Kenshin and Misao have finally arrived in Kyoto, and he asks for help from Misao's guardian Nenji and his information network to search for two people. Unfortunately, one of those people, a swordsmith named Shakku Arai, died eight years prior, and his son Seiku has stopped making swords altogether. So now it's back to square one finding a replacement for Kenshin's broken sword. But Shishio has his own information network, and they've found out about Kenshin's arrival. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 32 Now that Shishio knows that Kenshin is in Kyoto, the Ten Swords are out to kick Kenshin while he's down and in a spot where without a reverse-blade sword, he needs to return to being the Battosai in order to defend Kyoto. Cho is sent after Seiku's family as he's after Shakku's final blade that has been offered inside a shrine, and he's threatening to kill Iori if they don't cough up the location. However, Misao caught wind of Cho and asked Seiku for the location so that she can contact Nenji and Kenshin through a carrier pigeon, and right away Kenshin rushes off to the shrine to confront Cho. Even without a sword, the Hiten Mitsurugi still packs a punch that would have knocked anybody else out, but Cho is equipped with Shakku's weaponry that includes his torso plate where Kenshin struck him. This Vash look-alike sure is out for Kenshin seeing that he's wielding weaponry that Shakku forged back when he made the world's most lethal swords, all while Kenshin still doesn't have a sword himself, but the sword at the shrine is the only guard rail left in order to fight back without becoming the Battosai again. |
| Cho is the first of the Ten Swords to arrive in Kyoto, and after hearing about Kenshin's talk with Seiku and learning of Shakku's final sword, he goes and kidnaps Seiku's son Iori. Misao learns of the kidnapping and sends a message to Nenji, and Kenshin quickly takes off to intercept Cho at the shrine where the sword in question is located. Kenshin has fended off Cho's attacks so far while keeping his broken sakabato sheathed, but now Cho has revealed a sword with a blade so flexible it's wrapped around his torso. |
Galaxy-CrisisNov 21, 2024 11:59 AM
| Failure is always an option. |
| I knew when they showed that guys kid and wife that there was no way that the story would be done with them |
| Episode 33 The Hakujin gives Kenshin fits as it stabs him in the leg. Seeing Kenshin trying to protect the family and the peace that Seiku made s the decision to go and get his father's final sword for Kenshin. And then Kenshin turns the tables using his sheath to block the Hakujin, then elbows him in the face to knock him down. Seiku throws him the sword, but he refuses to draw it. Then Cho puts him in a position where he has to draw it after falling for his taunt that allows him to launch a blindside attack. But Kenshin draws the sword and knocks him out not knowing that it is a reverse-blade sword. So with Cho defeated, he is arrested by the police, while the sword's hilt breaks seeing that it couldn't handle the Hiten Mitsurugi. And then it ends with a flashback to when Shakku gave Kenshin his reverse-blade sword that he made to atone for all the lives his weapons took. Pretty dramatic that was seeing that Kenshin acted on instinct, but he trusted the sword, and now he can fight back. |
| Cho's wrap-around blade stabs Kenshin's leg, but Kenshin refuses to give up. Seiku decides to throw his father's last sword to Kenshin, but he refuses to draw it in order to finish the fight. Cho taunts Kenshin into forcing him to draw the blade, but it turns out to be a sakabato. The sword's wooden hilt breaks because it couldn't withstand the strain of Kenshin's attack. Cho has been defeated, and Kenshin now has a new sword. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 34 And now, an episode that goes back into the past when Kenshin first got his now-broken and since-replaced reverse-blade sword. He passed out and was found in the rain by the couple Giichi and Satuski, who are about to become parents. Giichi is a retired private eye detective whose right arm was chopped off by the Goyoto gang, and has since decided to live a humble life as farmers in the countryside. But the Goyoto gang wants him dead and won't stop until that happens, which backs Kenshin into a corner seeing that he needs to kill in order to save the couple when he discovers that his sword was crafted so that he can fight without killing. Now knowing that Shakku crafted him a sword that doesn't kill when using the Hiten Mitsurugi that he defeats the Goyoto gang and brings them to justice. Back in the present, he's now ready to put his replacement sword to good use. Next time, Kenshin meets his master Seijuro Hiko. |
| Kenshin recalls the time when he first got his sakabato, and how he first used it to protect a couple who took him in after the wife, Satsuki, found him passed out in the rain. Satsuki's husband, Giichi, was a former private investigator who had to quit after losing his right arm, but the gang who cut off his arm was still after his life. Kenshin defeated the gang's leader, and talked one of the other members, a fellow revolutionary, into changing his ways. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 35 Now that Kenshin has a new reverse-blade sword, he's ready to leave Aoiya and resume his mission not wanting to put Misao and company in harm's way in case he returns to being a manslayer. But Misao doesn't like that decision one bit. Three days later, Misao meets Kaoru and Yahiko at the hot pot restaurant and finally having a lead to Kenshin's whereabouts. Before Misao answers Kaoru's inquiry, she asks a question about how badly she wants to see Kenshin even in a moment of turmoil, and she answers with a resounding yes. While that's going on, Kenshin sees his old master known only as Seijuro Hiko to ask for advice as to how to defeat Shishio without reverting to being a manslayer. Seijuro has some pretty harsh words for Kenshin as he believes it was a mistake to teach him the Hiten Mitsurugi. And then Misao and Yahiko go barging in with Kaoru seeing Kenshin for the first time since he left for Kyoto. Things are coming to a crossroads here now that Kenshin is surprised to see that Kaoru and Yahiko made the trip even though he told them to stay put going to show that as idealistic as Kenshin wants to be, there are some who just won't take things lying down and want to help hem get through these tough times. |
| Now that Kenshin has a new sword, it's off to find the second person he's looking for, his master Seijuro Hiko. But Kenshin would prefer to search for him alone, which irks Misao for three days. Then she encounters Kaoru and Yahiko, and Misao asks Kaoru if she's prepared to meet Kenshin again even in times of peril. Nenji finds where Seijuro is residing, but when Kenshin arrives asking to complete his swordsmanship training, Seijuro harshly criticizes him. And at that moment, Misao shows up with Yahiko and Kaoru. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 36 After his unexpected encounter with Kaoru and Yahiko at Seijuro's place, Kenshin walks out while Kaoru talks with Seijuro to learn more about Kenshin and the Hiten Mitsurugi. And then as Kaoru, Yahiko, and Misao walk out, Yahiko tells Misao that Aoshi has been spotted in Kyoto, and then Kaoru tells her the truth about the Oniwaban Group that Kenshin had been trying to hide from her. While that's going on, Aoshi encounters Sojiro and the members of the Ten Swords in Anji, Henji, and Iwanbo, and goes to see Shishio to gather intel on the Battosai with the intent to fight him, but not helping Shishio with his agenda. Seeing how Aoshi can be used to his advantage that Shishio decides to tell him everything about Kenshin's whereabouts, and then plan an assault on Aoiya. Shishio and company are now starting to make their move, and they are out for blood. So with that, this show will go on break for the next two weeks. |
GridironOtaku said: So with that, this show will go on break for the next two weeks. Sounds like several shows are going to leave us with cliffhangers today |
| After Seijuro hears what Kenshin has been up to from Kaoru, he decides to teach Kenshin the ultimate technique of his sword style. Then, when Yahiko mentions that Aoshi is in Kyoto in front of Misao, Kaoru decides to tell her about the fate of her friends. Meanwhile, after Aoshi meets with Nenji, he encounters Sojiro coming back with other members of the Ten Swords. Sojiro brings Aoshi to Shishio himself, and they form an alliance, but their first order of business is assaulting Aoiya, and Aoshi is fine with this. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 37 Aoiya comes under attack while everybody is out sleeping, but Okina was prepared for the attack and lured the Owl Clan assassins into a trap. To protect Aoiya, Okina digs out his ninja garb and tonfas he thought he wouldn't need to put on anymore and engages in battle against Aoshi. But he was no match for Aoshi, who now wields dual kodachis, and not to mention the long daggers are sharp enough to cut through the tonfas. While that's going on, Hoji reports of the failed attack on Aoiya, and then Shishio reveals his power and why he's wrapped up like a mummy as he was tortured and left for dead when all of his sweat glands burned to a crisp, leaving his body scorching hot with no way of cooling it down. And with Okina totally defenseless with his weapon broken, Aoshi finishes him off with a six-slash technique and Misao arrives to see all that go down. So the second half begins with Shishio now getting even more serious, all while Misao finally catches up to Aoshi only to see him killing her grandfather. Misao is now at a crossroads as Aoshi is not the same guy she remembered him to be, all while Shishio is really turning up the heat. |
| Shishio's assassins try to assault Aoiya, but Nenji sees them coming, and after torturing them, he sends a message back to Aoshi to fight him. After learning that Aoshi is the only member of the Oniwaban Group still alive, she rushes to Aoiya and learns of her guardian's duel with Aoshi, but she makes it to that duel's location only to see the moment Nenji is cut down. Meanwhile, Shishio divulges to his cohort Hoji that all his sweat glands are gone as a result of him being burned alive, and as such, his body cannot cool down normally. |
| Failure is always an option. |
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