List of chapters adapted. (+breakdown of skipped/altered content)

Aug 3, 2023 1:16 AM

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Kean said:
I’ve one question about the 4th episode: to prepare for the fight with Kenshin, Sano did some research about his past even by going to Kyoto. But…

So, because i don’t quite remember the first part of the manga, there is some difference in it or is just a little continuity/characterzation error?

It was the same in the Manga , but it can indeed be seen as an incoherence.

However , he also took 2 weeks to go to Kyoto for his research , so it's possible that he also got lost at that time...
We know that the Kyoto Arc happens in the span of 3 months , but i don't remember them giving us a precise timeline of the events in it.

So it's not clear , but since the Kyoto Arc was not planned when the Tokyo Arc was ongoing , it's most probably just an oversight of Watsuki.

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Aug 3, 2023 6:52 AM

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Alexioos95 said:

Kean said:
I’ve one question about the 4th episode: to prepare for the fight with Kenshin, Sano did some research about his past even by going to Kyoto. But…

So, because i don’t quite remember the first part of the manga, there is some difference in it or is just a little continuity/characterzation error?

It was the same in the Manga , but it can indeed be seen as an incoherence.

However , he also took 2 weeks to go to Kyoto for his research , so it's possible that he also got lost at that time...
We know that the Kyoto Arc happens in the span of 3 months , but i don't remember them giving us a precise timeline of the events in it.

So it's not clear , but since the Kyoto Arc was not planned when the Tokyo Arc was ongoing , it's most probably just an oversight of Watsuki.

Understood, thanks. This little inconsistency could have been fixed in this remake, but whatever

Aug 5, 2023 2:52 AM

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Aug 18, 2023 2:04 AM

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Thanks for this useful thread. What do you guys think? Will the first 24 episodes completely cover the Tokyo arc,

?

Aug 18, 2023 2:19 AM

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Rurouni said:
Will the first 24 episodes completely cover the Tokyo arc,

Definitely.

Rurouni said:

?

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Aug 18, 2023 3:03 AM

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Alexioos95 said:

That's what I've been thinking too. At this rate, season 1 could end up covering the Shingetsu village mini-arc in the last few episodes.

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Aug 23, 2023 12:19 PM

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So how many episode do you guys think it will take to adapt everything?

Aug 23, 2023 12:44 PM

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crazydude1993 said:
So how many episode do you guys think it will take to adapt everything?

Between 70 and 80.

With a perfect pacing , that takes the time to build-up the ambiance and tension in some scenes without being slow , i believe 81-84 episodes would be the best. But it's extremely more likely that they'll do 72 Episodes. (3 Seasons of 24)

There is also the Sequel Manga , which Aniplex apparently want to adapt.
So it would make 24+ more episodes , since it's still ongoing.

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Sep 8, 2023 1:08 AM

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Kepp this shit at top every week this really helps

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Sep 21, 2023 1:03 PM

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Updates : Notes for Episode 12 has been added !

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Sep 22, 2023 2:58 AM

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Updates : Notes for Episode 12 has been added !

@Alexioos95 thank you for all your hard work every week

Sep 22, 2023 5:41 AM

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Alexioos95 said:
For those who are unaware, this Anime is a "Remake" of the 1996 one.
The latter didn't completely adapt the Manga, so we hope to get multiple seasons of this "Remake" to do so.

This season will run for 24 Episodes, but we don't know how much content they plan to adapt.
The Author actively took part in the production of this adaptation, and did a few alterations and add-ons, that he wished to do but couldn't during the publication of the Manga.
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In this thread, i'll list which chapters are adapted by each episode, on top of pointing out all altered or skipped content.
But before that, i invite you to read this tour of the Rurouni Kenshin franchise, explaining every entry : https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=891629
It was originally present in this post, but i had to remove it, due to the character limit i will most probably hit.
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For those who want, here is a Google Sheets. (Attention, notes are summarized and not hidden !)

Episode 01 : Chapter 01.

Skipped content :
- A very short introduction to the legend of Hitokiri Battosai has been skipped at the start of the episode.
- Through numerous scenes, the funny faces and small gags, as well as the apparent indifference of Kenshin, have been reduced or removed.
  Listing them all would be way too long.
- During the discussion in which Kaoru explains the presence of a dojo full of thugs in the next town, her mentioning its name, "Kihei-kan", and asking herself why Kenshin uses a reverse-blade, has been removed.
Altered content :
- Through a few scenes, the hand the characters use to do certain actions was changed. (Kaoru pointing her bokken at Kenshin, Kihei showing the document to Kaoru, and Gohei holding Kaoru by the collar.)
- When Kenshin flees from the police with Kaoru, the latter is struggling to break free from Kenshin, and yells to him that Battosai is using the name of her dojo, unlike in the Manga, where she beats Kenshin while explaining to him, before getting knocked out.
- In her dojo, Kaoru and Kihei are sitting on a cushion in the Manga, but not in this adaptation.
- The kimono of Kaoru was white with red sakura's petals in the Manga, but completely blue here.
  Her ribbon was also originally red, not pink.
- Kenshin's distrust of the town's police is shown via his gaze rather than a sentence.
- When Gohei enters the dojo, he still has his mask on, when he already removed it in the Manga.
- When Gohei is about to hit Kenshin in the dojo, he holds his katana with only one hand, but he does so with both of his hands in the Manga.
- Kenshin threatens Kihei by pointing the other side of the blade at him, instead of simply verbally threatening to do so.
Anime-original content :
- The episode starts with a flashback of the Bakumatsu, during which Kenshin was still the Hitokiri Battosai.
  This whole scene is an extended and altered version of a few panels of Chapter 179. (Those alterations were already present for the Tsuioku-hen OVAs.)
- In the sequence where Kenshin explains what Kenjutsu is, there is a very brief glimpse at the two moments that changed his life, revealed in the Jinchuu Arc.
Extra notes :
- The opening contains several references to the original Anime, some of its filler episodes, and "Sobakasu", its first Opening.
- Teasing about Hitokiri Battosai and the Jinchuu Arc was present in the Opening and the Ending.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Episode 01, a few seconds of the end of Tsuioku-hen 04.
- Faithful ? : Events and characters were mildly altered.

Episode 02 : Chapter 02, few pages of 03.

Skipped content :
- Just like in the previous episode, the funny faces, gags, and the apparent indifference of Kenshin, have been reduced or removed.
- In the Manga, Kenshin hums for a few panels when he walks around town with Kaoru, but not here.
- The cigar that Yamagata was supposed to smoke in his carriage has been removed.
- In the scene in which Ujiki points his blade at Kenshin, the latter slightly pushing it back to the side with his hand, has been skipped.
- Yahiko's blood, which was all over the floor after his beating, was removed.
Altered content :
- Kaoru is the one mentioning the temporality, but it's a narrator that does so in the Manga.
- On the bridge, Kaoru and Kenshin walk side-by-side, but Kaoru walks in front of him in the Manga.
- The introduction of Yahiko is done on a small bridge in town, but it happens in the grand one shown at the end of the episode in the Manga.
- Yahiko pushed Kenshin from behind to steal him in the Manga, but he bump into him from the front here.
- The haori of Yahiko has been modified, to remove the patterns it had on it.
- In the Manga, Kaoru tackles Yahiko to the ground, but she simply grabs him from behind in this adaptation.
- Here, passersby give way to the armed police, but in the Manga, the police do not hesitate to bump into them to move forward.
- The direction of the two sofas in the Commissioner's office has been changed.
- At the end of the episode, Gasuke uses his left hand to hit Yahiko, but he does so with his right one in the Manga.
Anime-original content :
- A lot more of the town is shown, and a remark from Kenshin about the bustle of the city has been added.
- Just after, Kaoru asks Kenshin where he was before their encounter, but does not in the Manga.
- The threats Yahiko faces in the alley are fully Anime-original.
- The armed police officers mentioning their sword styles was not present in the Manga.
- The whole scene during which Yahiko returns the money to the grandmother, and the short one where he picks up and waves the piece of wood, is new.
Extra notes :
- The entirety of the events about the police (Chapter 02) has been merged to take place on the same day as the events about Yahiko (Chapter 03). It causes many small alterations, that i didn't list. (Like the order of certain dialogues, or the clothes of Kaoru.)
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Episode 03, a few minutes of 02.
- Faithful ? : Temporality was swapped, lot of original content was added, and events were slightly altered.

Episode 03 : Chapters 03, 04, a page of 05.

Skipped content :
- When Gasuke is holding Yahiko by the collar, the latter's blood dripping on the floor was removed.
- When Kenshin threatens the Kanto-shuei's boss, a panel where the latter collapses under the effect of fear, has been skipped.
- Again, funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
- Once Kenshin says to Yahiko that he'll become stronger, the latter replying that it's a given, was skipped.
- Some boxes from the narrator explaining that this is how Yahiko joined the dojo, were not adapted.
Altered content :
- In the Manga, Kaoru sees Yahiko getting kidnapped from the other side of the river, but she does so from the bridge in this adaptation.
- The Kanto-shuei's house plaque looks different. Some decorations have also been removed.
- Gasuke holds Yahiko with his right hand in the Manga, but he does so with his left hand here.
- When Yahiko talks about how his parents died, we see blood dripping from his left hand, but it was his right one in the Manga.
- When Gasuke is about to kill Yahiko, his face is clearly showing that he's still in pain in the Manga, but not here.
- At the moment Kenshin forces his way into the room, he should have already drawn his sword.
- The way Kenshin holds Yahiko is different. He puts him on one of his shoulders here, but he simply holds him by the collar in the Manga.
- When Yahiko breaks down because of his helplessness, he's still in the Kanto-shuei's house in the Manga, but he's already outside here.
- In the Manga, Kaoru waits for Kenshin outside of the dojo, but still inside her land. However, she's waiting for him on the road in this Remake.
- In the same scene, we can see that Kaoru already changed clothes, but she didn't in the Manga.
- Still in the same scene, Kenshin puts Yahiko down, but he continues to hold him throughout it in the Manga.
- In the Manga, Kaoru is angry at Yahiko because he doesn't hold his shinai correctly, but here, it's because he throws it.
- Yahiko throws his sandal at Kaoru when she berates him, but it's a shinai thrown at her, originally.
- The thugs beaten up by the guy after the credits, have been replaced to be the Hashi Manji.
Anime-original content :
- Once Gasuke gets up, and after he was sent to the ceiling, one of the thugs calls out his name. These shootings were not in the Manga.
- When Yahiko says that he wants to become stronger, a focus is made on a piece of wood, not present in the Manga.
- When Kenshin brings Yahiko back to the Kamiya's dojo, Kenshin and Kaoru greeting each other, is Anime-original.
- Yahiko criticizes Kaoru a little bit more, and seems to regret it just after.
- Here, Yahiko is shown to have a skeptical gaze about the story of the two disciples.
- Kaoru is worried about Kenshin because of the canon, and shoots his name. Her shock when he cuts the cannonball is also new.
- After Kenshin threatens the thugs of the Hashi Manji, their reaction is entirely Anime-original.
Extra notes :
- Due to the change of temporality in the previous episode, some events and dialogues have been moved to this one.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Episode 02.
- Faithful ? : Lot of original content was added, and events about the Hashi Manji (Chapter 04) have been skipped.

Episode 04 : Chapters 05, 06.

Skipped content :
- As usual, funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
- In the Manga, Yahiko always has his shinai with him, but here, he does not have it when going to the Akabeko.
- After Sanosuke helps Tae, him asking her if she's fine, and her flustered response, has been skipped.
  Also, the handkerchief of Tae should have fallen at the same time.
- A provocation the drunkard made to Sanosuke before fighting, has not been adapted.
- In the Manga, it's not just the drunkard's right hand, but his whole arm that's dislocated.
- Kaoru is shocked about the speed of Sanosuke, and mentions it, but Gohei does the same in the Manga.
Altered content :
- When Yahiko sees the painting, he mentions a scribble, but it's Kenshin who does so in the Manga.
- Kaoru hitting Yahiko was done off-screen in the Manga.
- The Akabeko's sign was entirely redesigned. It's much more simple in the Manga.
- In the Akabeko, Yahiko sits to the right of Kenshin, but he's to his left in the Manga.
- Just like in the previous episodes, during a few scenes, the hand the characters use to do certain actions was changed. (Sanosuke helping Tae, flicking the drunkard, and when holding his zanbato)
- The drunkard needs his friends to mention his hand to notice that he's been hurt, but in the Manga, he directly feels it alone due to the pain.
- In his house, Sanosuke's zanbato is in a corner, but it's in front of him in the Manga.
- The Hiruma brothers hide behind a wall, but they are behind a simple fence in the Manga.
Anime-original content :
- The interaction of Kenshin and Yahiko at the start of the episode, is Anime-original.
- We can see Sanosuke eating at the Akabeko, but in the Manga, we can't see him before he heroically saves Tae.
- The whole scene, from the drunkard asking Sanosuke what he did to him, to his friend praising his courage, is Anime-original.
  The drunkard's second try at hitting Sanosuke is also new.
Extra notes :
- The stances of the characters during fights, are not exactly the same as the ones of the panels of the Manga.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Episode 04, half of 05.
- Faithful ? : Original content, including a fight, was added. Events were slightly altered.

Episode 05 : Chapters 07, 08, few pages of 09.

Skipped content :
- After Kenshin is surprised about the mention of the Sekihotai, a panel in which Gohei is curious about it, has been skipped.
- Kenshin refering to Sanosuke as "the survivor of the Sekihotai" after the flashback, has been skipped.
- Just before Kenshin cuts the zanbato in half, Kaoru hides her face with her hands in the Manga, but not in this adaptation.
- The many bruises Sanosuke has after the final hit have been removed, especially his right eye, which he can't open for a few days.
- Some funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
Altered content :
- Kihei was to the right of Gohei in the Manga, but he's to his left here.
- In the Manga, Kenshin explains the disadvantages of the zanbato while fighting, but here, he waits to strike down Sanosuke first.
- Kenshin talking about "the epilogue" of the fight, has been changed from a provocation before the "second act", to an affirmation after it.
- The room in which the Sekihotai talks about what happened to them has been completely altered.
  There was originally a table with a lot of documents and maps, with members standing all around. The room was also closed, without any vision on the outside.
- The commander's emotion reporting the annihilation of his battalion was changed from sadness to anger.
- In the Manga, Kenshin did not fall while stopping the bullet. His gaze was also originally more intense and cold.
- The Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu's technique Kenshin uses to hit Kihei, has been replaced by a series of simple blows. ("Doryusen", hitting the ground at high speed to send earth and rocks at the opponent.)
- In the Manga, when Kenshin fights seriously, his gaze is very much more intense and colder.
- A note about the scene at the Akabeko taking place the day after the fight, has been replaced by a discussion of Kaoru and Yahiko about Sanosuke.
- The clothes of Kaoru at the Akabeko have been changed again. It was originally the same as the rest of this episode.
Anime-original content :
- The discussion between Kenshin and Sanosuke before the Opening, is Anime-Original.
- The slow built-up of the start of the fight's "second act", and Kaoru's reaction to it, is Anime-Original.
- A lot of scenes about the Sekihotai have been added. (The people talking about them, the addition of Katsuhiro, Sagara commanding his troops, watching a village and talking about it to Sanosuke (not the history part), joking about the future of the Sekihotai, reacting about the "Sagara" name, and asking the kids to "keep watch", and the whole scene from Katsuhiro running, to Sanosuke discovering the fate of the captain.)
- A scarf has been added around the beheaded head of captain Sagara.
- The whole scene, from Sanosuke getting up after his flashback, to Kenshin's reaction to it, is new.
- Kaoru asking Yahiko to flee, and Yahiko answering back, wasn't present in the Manga.
Extra notes :
- None.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Second half of Episode 05.
- Faithful ? : The events and characters of the flashback have been mildly altered.

Episode 06 : Chapters 09, 10, 11.

Skipped content :
- Some funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
- The first thug that gets hit by Jin-e, got one of his gesture to remove his sweat skipped.
- In the Manga, Jin-e is startled when he hears Kenshin talk after he used Shin no Ippo on everyone, but not in this adaptation.
- While charging at Tani, a rant of Jin-e about how the government is corrupted, has been skipped.
- A note mentioning that the scene in which Kenshin and Sano are in town is from the day after the attack, has been removed.
- In the flashback scene about Jin-e at the Shinsengumi, a beheaded head in his left hand was removed.
- We hear Jin-e's chuckle behind the fence, but a panel in which we see his face, and a bubble where he talks about the river, has been skipped.
Altered content :
- In the Manga, Sano still has a bandage on his right cheek.
- In the Manga, Yahiko, Kenshin and Sano are seated on a bench, whereas they are on the terrace of the house here.
- Here, Uramura has his cap when he entered the Kamiya's property, but he didn't in the Manga.
- Everyone moves inside the dojo to talk with Uramura, but in the Manga, they stay outside, and serves him tea.
- When Uramura mentions how many victims Jin-e made, he appears a little bit calmer than in the Manga.
- The house of Tani got very slightly redesigned, to remove the many chimneys it had. The clock and decorations inside of it, has also got redesigned.
- The clothes of almost all thugs got altered, mainly by removing the patterns it had.
- The positions of the pawns in the game of shogi are completely different.
- Kenshin opens the right window and Sano the left, but it was the opposite in the Manga.
- While in her bed, the hair of Kaoru was braided in the Manga, but not here.
- Kenshin gets injured by Jin-e on his forearm, but he got cutted through his sleeves in the Manga.
- The explanations about the techniques of the Nikaido Heiho's school were moved from just after Kenshin gets injured, to after the escape of Jin-e. It was also not Kenshin that talked, but the narrator.
- Kenshin mentions to Sano that what Jin-e is doing is immoral, but he directly said so to Jin-e during his fight with him in the Manga.
- After Jin-e uses his Shin no Ippo on Kenshin a second time, Sano is worried about him, but it was Uramura that did so in the Manga.
- In the Manga, Jin-e uses his two hands to hold his katana while charging at Tani, but he does so with only his right one here.
- Kenshin walks to the right of Sano here, but he was to his left in the Manga.
- After Sano explained the situation to Kaoru, Yahiko doesn't separate from his shinai in the Manga, but he did here.
- In the Manga, Kaoru was crying while getting kidnapped by Jin-e, but not in this adaptation.
Anime-original content :
- None.
Extra notes :
- None
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Episode 06.
- Faithful ? : Yes.

Episode 07 : Chapters 12, 13, 14.

Episode 08 : Chapters 15, 16, half of 17.

Skipped content :
- Some funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
- Players' curiosity about the sound of the footsteps was not adapted.
- When Sano explains who Kanryuu is, the Manga shows his silhouette, but not this adaptation.
- When Beshimi says that Megumi is always being watched by men of the Oniwaban-shu, a panel of him mentioning that they do so even when she's in bed, in bath, or in the toilet, have been skipped.
- After Kenshin blocked the bullets of Beshimi, the latter threatening him has been skipped.
- Before a friend of Sano comes find him in front of the dojo, a panel about Kenshin wanting to talk about Kanryuu has been skipped.
- Sano's curiosity to Kenshin suddenly looking away at the bridge was not adapted.
Altered content :
- The faces and clothes of the players were altered.
- Sano punched the thug with his right hand, but it was his left one in the Manga.
- The thug afraid of Sano pointed his knife at him while talking in the Manga.
- In the Manga, Megumi finger points multiple times people when talking, but not in this adaptation.
- Two friends of Sano walk in front of Beshimi before getting shot, but in the Manga, Beshimi hits them when they are to the left and right of Megumi, not moving.
- The position of Kenshin and Sano got reversed when hitting Beshimi.
- It's a friend of Sano who remark that what Megumi dropped was opium, but it was Kenshin who did so in the Manga.
- Megumi's fear of Kanryuu at the bridge was reduced in this adaptation.
- When Megumi talks with Kenshin about the forces of Kanryuu, she's standing up here, but she is sitting in front of Kenshin in the Manga.
- Kaoru tries to peek through the other door of the room.
- In the Manga, Kenshin folded the schema to throw it to Sano, but not here.
- Kaoru asks since when Yahiko was hidden, but it's Kenshin who did so in the Manga.
Anime-original content :
- The escape of Megumi got extended. It's also shown in a fragmented way, whereas it happens in only 2 pages in the Manga.
- Sano's line about not realizing that Yahiko was hiding, is Anime-Original.
Extra notes :
- A few panels were skipped at the end of the episode, to finish with the entrance of an Oniwaban-shu member.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : First half of Episode 08.
- Faithful ? : Events were slightly altered.

Episode 09 : Chapters 17, 18, 19.

Skipped content :
- The few panels skipped at the end of the previous episode were finally not adapted.
  In them, the 3 Oniwaban-shu are in front of the dojo, and Hyottoko threatens Beshimi for trying to order him to attack, before belittling Kenshin and Sano.
- Just before trying to flee, Megumi thinking that it's the right time to, was skipped.
- After drinking his barrel, a panel in which Hyottoko breaks it, has been skipped.
- Blood coming out of the mouth of Hyottoko once he gets hit by Sano's kick, has been removed.
- Funny faces and gags have been reduced or removed.
- Just before Beshimi tries to kill Megumi, one of his bubble about how he does not know why Kanryuu wants to get her back, has been removed.
- A focus made on the old doctor's medicine tools, and one of his bubble about a medication made of stramonium, has been skipped.
- After the old doctor's appearance, Kenshin has a bandage on his right cheek in the Manga, but not here.
Altered content :
- Hyottoko threatening Kenshin and Sano so that they hand Megumi to him, has been moved from before his self-introduction, to after it.
- When Sano first gets hit by Hyottoko, Kenshin and Yahiko cry out his name, but only Yahiko does so in the Manga.
- To avoid the fire of Hyottoko, Kenshin literally cut it, but in the Manga, he simply spins his katana, to create wind.
  At that moment, Hyottoko also mocks him for that.
- When Kaoru sees that Sano still wants to fight, her sentence has been changed from worrying about the leg of Sano, to mocking him for trying to act cool.
- Kenshin's sentence once he sees Sano running into fire, has been altered. In the Manga, he explains that what he did reduced the dangerosity of the fire, but here, he makes a joke about a saying.
- In the Manga, when Kaoru realizes Yahiko got poisoned, she immediately starts crying, but not in this adaptation.
- After getting poisoned, Yahiko falls unconscious in the Manga, but not here.
- Kenshin holds his katana with his right hand when going after Hannya, but it was with his left one in the Manga.
- To flee, Hannya passed by the huge hall in the wall, but in the Manga, he jumped over one of the facades.
- The desk of Aoshi has been moved from where it was in the Manga, which was in a corner of the room.
Anime-original content :
- Aoshi sentence about the hair color and the scar of Kenshin, is Anime-Original.
- The whole post-credit scene, about Kanryuu acquiring something, is completely Anime-Original.
Extra notes :
- Much less gags have been skipped, and some dialogues have been altered to add a little bit more comedy.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Second half of Episode 08, first half of Episode 09.
- Faithful ? : Events and character designs were mildly altered.

Episode 10 : Chapters 20, 21, 22.

Skipped content :
- Some funny faces and gags have been reduced/skipped.
- Sano patting the shoulder of Kaoru before going with Kenshin to attack the house of Kanryuu, has been skipped.
- Before surging into Kanryuu's house, a sentence from Sano about how he hates such a grande residence, has not been adapted.
- Blood and bruises on Megumi face and clothes, have been removed after she was beaten by Kanryuu.
- Foam getting out of the mouth of the gunman Yahiko knocks out, has been removed.
- In the Manga, Sano and Yahiko were not aware that Kanryuu was at the window, and were surprised that Kenshin suddenly looked at it. However, this detail was skipped in this adaptation.
Altered content :
- The clothes of Kaoru have been altered. She originally had the same as the few previous episodes.
- Kenshin and the other are eating on the terrace, but they do so inside a room in the Manga.
- When Kaoru is angry at Megumi when making the funny face, she places her hand on her head in the Manga, but not here.
- When Kenshin reads the letter left by Megumi, Sano is sitting on the terrace, but he was standing, leaning on the fence in the Manga.
- Kenshin's cold and serious gaze has been reduced when he talks to Sano about attacking Kanryuu's house.
- Kanryuu's armchair has been moved, from on the carpet in the Manga, to behind his desk here. It's also much larger than it was in the Manga.
- In the Manga, once Megumi cuts Kanryuu's arm, she's very tense, but not here.
- In the Manga, Kanryuu is cornered to a wall of the room, but he's at his desk in this adaptation.
- Kanryuu punched Megumi with his right hand to knock her out, but it was his left one in the Manga.
- In the Manga, Yahiko is surrounded by only 2 gunmen, not 4.
- In this adaptation, Kanryuu raises his proposition to Kenshin because he's afraid of his gaze, but it was because Kenshin was moving toward him in the Manga.
Anime-original content :
- The scene about Sano, before the Opening, is Anime-Original.
- The surprise of Kaoru and Yahiko at Sano's lack of respect toward Megumi, is Anime-Original.
- This adaptation added a few more books, on top of the box of the traveling bookseller.
- Sano talking about the past of his deceased friend, is entirely Anime-Original.
Extra notes :
- None.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Second half of Episode 09, first half of Episode 10.
- Faithful ? : Events were mildly altered.

Episode 11 : Chapters 23, 24, 25, few pages of 26.

Episode 12 : Chapters 26, 27, half of 28.

Skipped content :
- Some funny faces and gags have been removed.
- When Kenshin makes his speech about the motive of Aoshi, one of his sentences, about Aoshi being a wrongdoer because of the opium, has been skipped.
- During the scene with Kanryuu at his desk, one of his sentences about Aoshi being motivated by his fighting spirit close to craziness, and an interaction with the thug coming to him for the equipment, has been skipped.
- Right after the scene of Kanryuu, two panels where skipped, in which it's implied that Megumi thinks of suicide.
- Yahiko screaming Kenshin's name, has been removed after Kanryuu's scene at his desk.
- The blows Kenshin receives after Kanryuu's scene, cause him to have a large trail of blood on his face. However, it was removed here.
- Once Aoshi started using his ultimate technique, his gaze became incredibly cold and his pupils contracted in the Manga, but not in this adaptation.
- Yahiko's surprise to witnessing Kenshin blocking the blade, has been skipped.
- After Aoshi warns Kenshin that he will try to kill him again if Kenshin does not finish him, Kenshin welcoming his challenge has not been adapted.
- Megumi recognizing the sound to be gunshots, has been skipped.
- Yahiko asking Kenshin to do something about the gatling gun, and Kenshin answering back that there is nothing he can do, has been skipped.
- Once Kanryuu starts his speech, a sentence from Aoshi, that understood what he was about to say, has been skipped.
- Sano and other's entrance toward the end has been skipped. Shikijo doing his farewell to Kenshin was also removed.
Altered content :
- Once Aoshi talks about setting Tokyo on fire, Yahiko is to his right, but he was to his left in the Manga. In this scene, Kenshin's gaze also became much colder in the Manga.
- The blood dripping from Kenshin's hand after he holds his katana by the blade, has been greatly reduced.
- After suffering the heavy blow, Kenshin is shown much more clearly to be out of breath in the Manga than in this adaptation.
- At the moment when Aoshi is about to deliver the final blow, we see that Kenshin does not even look in his direction while blocking his blade, but in the Manga, Kenshin accurately predicted and looks where he would be.
- Kenshin talks about his Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu's technique after blocking the blade of Aoshi, but in the Manga, he talked about how every practitioner of katana knew how to block a blade barehanded.
- The gatling gun's background was explained by Kanryuu, but it was a narrator who did so in the Manga. Some parts of it were skipped though, and the dialogues of Kanryuu following it have been altered.
- The gatling gun has been vastly re-designed.
Anime-original content :
- The Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu's Ryuukosen, is Anime-Original.
Extra notes :
- This adaptation extends the fights by a few exchanges since its first episode, but I note that they still incorporated several blows for Kenshin to block the blade, whereas it was very clear only one movement in the Manga.
1996 Anime :
- Equivalent : Last quarter of Episode 10, half of Episode 11.
- Faithful ? : Events were slightly altered.

Episode 13 : ?

Note that I haven't listed all of the alterations or original content that are due to the difference in medium, such as the way Kenshin moves his scabbard, or the pictures used to illustrate what the characters are talking about.
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Dam bro so much details 💀💀

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Dam bro so much details 💀💀

The devil is in the details. =)

Do you think i should mark the important changes by making them bold ? (There won't be many of them tho.)

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Alexioos95 said:

Apratim said:
Dam bro so much details 💀💀

The devil is in the details. =)

Do you think i should mark the important changes by making them bold ? (There won't be many of them tho.)

Ya bold would be better for important stuff 👌🏻

Sep 22, 2023 12:00 PM

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Ya bold would be better for important stuff 👌🏻

Done !
Don't hesitate to give me a feedback on it.

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Sep 22, 2023 11:07 PM

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thank you so much for this thread!

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Thank you so much for this topic! I like this remake so much! I haven't seen the original, hope that this series will fully adapt all the manga! There is a sequel manga that is publishing now by the way. I plan to read it after the main series.

Sep 27, 2023 7:22 PM

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Love the detail you've put into this thread, just here to signal boost

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Gigachad thread dude !

Sep 28, 2023 2:41 PM

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they have been doing quite a slow pacing i keep wondering whether or not we will end up getting 4 seasons 🤔

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they have been doing quite a slow pacing i keep wondering whether or not we will end up getting 4 seasons 🤔

Ah ? I personally find the pacing to be very good... Edit: After this Season ended, i can say that they suddenly made a little rush for the last few episodes... a shame.

A lot of things happen in a short period , and there is always an interaction between the characters , so it can even feels fast paced at times.
If you find it slow paced now , you risk to have difficulties later , as this Arc is definitely the most fast paced one of the 3.

As for if we'll get 4 Seasons... everything will depends on the Kyoto Arc.
It's 104 Chapters long , so if they keep this pace , they will need 35 Episodes to adapt it... (Which is very good , and exactly what fans want.)
But 35 Episodes... seems extremely unlikely with the production of Animes nowadays , 24 is more believable... And if they really do that , i think they'll get a lot of backlash , atleast from the foreign community... (Which already happened in 2011 , with the Shin Kyoto-hen OVAs.)

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Great job! You are amazing! Thanks!

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they have been doing quite a slow pacing i keep wondering whether or not we will end up getting 4 seasons 🤔

Ah ? I personally find the pacing to be very good... Edit: After this Season ended, i can say that they suddenly made a little rush for the last few episodes... a shame.

A lot of things happen in a short period , and there is always an interaction between the characters , so it can even feels fast paced at times.
If you find it slow paced now , you risk to have difficulties later , as this Arc is definitely the most fast paced one of the 3.

As for if we'll get 4 Seasons... everything will depends on the Kyoto Arc.
It's 104 Chapters long , so if they keep this pace , they will need 35 Episodes to adapt it... (Which is very good , and exactly what fans want.)
But 35 Episodes... seems extremely unlikely with the production of Animes nowadays , 24 is more believable... And if they really do that , i think they'll get a lot of backlash , atleast from the foreign community... (Which already happened in 2011 , with the Shin Kyoto-hen OVAs.)

@Alexioos95, I hope that they fully adapt all the manga. It is a classic series that NEEDED TO BE ADAPTED WITH CARE AND ATTENTION TO DETAILS.

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Alexioos95 said:

-Arrows- said:
they have been doing quite a slow pacing i keep wondering whether or not we will end up getting 4 seasons 🤔

Ah ? I personally find the pacing to be very good...
A lot of things happen in a short period , and there is always an interaction between the characters , so it can even feels fast paced at times.
If you find it slow paced now , you risk to have difficulties later , as this Arc is definitely the most fast paced one of the 3.

As for if we'll get 4 Seasons... everything will depends on the Kyoto Arc.
It's 104 Chapters long , so if they keep this pace , they will need 35 Episodes to adapt it... (Which is very good , and exactly what fans want.)
But 35 Episodes... seems extremely unlikely with the production of Animes nowadays , 24 is more believable... And if they really do that , i think they'll get a lot of backlash , atleast from the foreign community... (Which already happened in 2011 , with the Shin Kyoto-hen OVAs.)

adapting kyoto arc with 24 episodes is pretty doable imo.
also, this season seems to be covering up until kenshin arrives at shingetsu village which is technically already in kyoto arc territory.

season 2 would kick off with the first confrotation with jupongatana (vs soujiro)

then season 3, is jinchuu arc with 24 episodes. again very doable since jinchu is shorter than kyoto but still gets the same lenght of episodes since its never been adapted before

Oct 6, 2023 9:24 AM

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adapting kyoto arc with 24 episodes is pretty doable imo.

Doable , yes.
But a lot of scenes will have to get a faster pacing then , and i'm not sure where it would be going like that...

Alphchan said:
also, this season seems to be covering up until kenshin arrives at shingetsu village which is technically already in kyoto arc territory.

That's what i believed too at first , but not anymore.
With the current pacing , it'll probably ends just after Shishio's first appearance.

Edit : Nevermind , i thought you said after the Shingetsu Village , and not "arrives". My bad. I think it will ends just before it tho.
And well , Shingetsu Village is part of the Kyoto Arc , just like Saito's sub-Arc. (Or atleast , according to the fan's repartition.)

Alphchan said:
then season 3, is jinchuu arc with 24 episodes. again very doable since jinchu is shorter than kyoto but still gets the same lenght of episodes since its never been adapted before

I agree with that.
Jinchuu is slightly shorter than Kyoto , and there is more fights , so 24 Episodes really does seems good.

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Updates : Notes for Episode 15 has been added !
As expected, they are skipping a lot of the dialogues to fit the whole sub-Arc in 3 Episodes.

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Updates : Notes for Episode 15 has been added !
As expected, they are skipping a lot of the dialogues to fit the whole sub-Arc in 3 Episodes.

@Alexioos95 Very interesting that they are doing some stuff differently, been a while since I read the manga, thanks for the info.

I knew some things weren't quite as I remembered.

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@Alexioos95 Very interesting that they are doing some stuff differently, been a while since I read the manga, thanks for the info.

I knew some things weren't quite as I remembered.

For this episode , it was mostly dialogues being skipped/altered.
Some details of the duels were also changed , to be more serious. (For example , Raijuta breaking his shinai with his force , or Kenshin using a bokken.)
But overall , it's still very faithful to the Manga.

However , it was announced in an interview after Episode 01 that they changed a few things to this sub-Arc , because Watsuki (and even the majority of the fans) wasn't satisfied with it. And actually , even the 1996s Anime had already altered it a lot because the director was feeling the same.
So i'm expecting a few alterations in Episode 02 , and more in Episode 03. Edit: In the end... they did almost no changes.

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I just came to say thank you because I love this thread

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Thanks for this detailed and amazing thread bro. You are a true Rurouni kenshin fan. Hope you are enjoying this adaptation. :)

Oct 21, 2023 5:08 AM

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Hope you are enjoying this adaptation. :)

I do , even if everything is far from perfect.

If they do multiple seasons , i hope they'll do better.
They can do so much incredible things with the Kyoto/Jinchuu Arcs !

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When will Kyoto arc start ?

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When will Kyoto arc start ?

Its Prologue will begin with Episode 19, and last for the rest of the Season.
Edit: In the end, they padded a few episodes to end on a very important scene. The Kyoto Arc started with Episode 22.
However, the "real beginning" of the Arc won't be before Episode 01 or maybe 02 of the 2nd Season (if it gets announced).

Alexioos95Dec 24, 2023 12:49 AM

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Nov 16, 2023 8:39 PM

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Fantastic breakdown!

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Thanks for doing these comparisons. I definitely missed a few differences for episode 23. Always interesting when the anime chooses to do something differently. While I'm glad they aren't changing too much, I'm also glad they adapted some things differently.

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Where do you think this series will end? Will it end at

or is that something that might be included in a potential second season? Not sure if I'm emotionally ready for "that scene" yet.

Dec 11, 2023 9:14 AM

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Where do you think this series will end

Well , there is only 1 Episode left. I really don't see how they could not end with the departure scene now.
They even (most probably) adapted Act Zero (with a lot of Anime-originals content) only to fill episodes 20 & 21 to end on this very particular scene.
And with the narrator's sentence , it's a very powerful moment for a season's end.

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Dec 21, 2023 9:37 AM

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How many of these 2-cour seasons might they need to adapt the entire manga and possibly cover some spin-offs or additional chapters from the author?

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How many of these 2-cour seasons might they need to adapt the entire manga and possibly cover some spin-offs or additional chapters from the author?

Ideally, we would need 5 more cours to cover the Main Story. We'll probably only gets 4 (so 2 more Seasons), tho.
The Sequel Manga is still ongoing, but with currently a little bit over 50 Chapters, there is enough for 2 more cours.

As for the Extra Chapters, they are all shorts, so there is no need for a lot of episodes.
One is about Makoto Shishio, so 1 episode in the 2nd Season is enough. The 2 Epilogues are shorts, so 1 episode at the very end of the series is also enough. The Prototypes really doesn't fits the rest of the series, so if they didn't adapted them here, i don't see them being adapted, at all.

There is also the Kamiya Dojo Monogatari Novels, which are a lot of little side-stories. They alone, can easily fill 2 more cours... but it would be a huge surprise to see them adapted.

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So, are you suggesting that they could easily fit into 5 seasons or so, and a movie or spin-off series is unlikely?

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So, are you suggesting that they could easily fit into 5 seasons or so, and a movie or spin-off series is unlikely?

If they want to adapt everything (the Main Story, the Sequel, and the Novels), then yes. 5 Seasons is very easy to fill.
I don't see what they could do in a Movie format, so i doubt we'll see that in this franchise. (Unless they choose to split the Final Arc in parts...)

But i'm not expecting them to adapt the entirety of the Sequel (atleast in the few next years), and i would be extremely surprised if they touch the Novels. At this point, i'm expecting 3 Seasons of 24 Episodes for the Main Manga (so 2 more), and a Season of 12 Episodes to start the Sequel.

Alexioos95Dec 21, 2023 10:19 AM

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So, are you suggesting that they could easily fit into 5 seasons or so, and a movie or spin-off series is unlikely?

If they want to adapt everything (the Main Story, the Sequel, and the Novels), then yes. 5 Seasons is very easy to fill.
I don't see what they could do in a Movie format, so i doubt we'll see that in this franchise. (Unless they choose to split the Final Arc in parts...)

But i'm not expecting them to adapt the entirety of the Sequel (atleast in the few next years), and i would be extremely surprised if they touch the Novels. At this point, i'm expecting 3 Seasons of 24 Episodes for the Main Manga (so 2 more), and a Season of 12 Episodes to start the Sequel.

@Alexioos95 I meant 5 including this one. As for the sequel, I have long had before my eyes the example of Shaman King, when the remake almost immediately turned into the announcement of a sequel from the same team and cast.

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I meant 5 including this one.

Yeah, i edited my post. x)

I really don't see them touching the Novels, tho...
That seems so unlikely. But again, they did added Act Zero in this Season... so who know.

RobertBobert said:
As for the sequel, I have long had before my eyes the example of Shaman King, when the remake almost immediately turned into the announcement of a sequel from the same team and cast.

That'll probably be the same for Rurouni Kenshin. Aniplex already said that they wanted to adapt the Sequel.
Part of the justifications for this re-adaptation is probably to sell the animation of the Sequel better.

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I meant 5 including this one.

Yeah, i edited my post. x)

I really don't see them touching the Novels, tho...
That seems so unlikely. But again, they did added Act Zero in this Season... so who know.

RobertBobert said:
As for the sequel, I have long had before my eyes the example of Shaman King, when the remake almost immediately turned into the announcement of a sequel from the same team and cast.

That'll probably be the same for Rurouni Kenshin. Aniplex already said that they wanted to adapt the Sequel.
Part of the justifications for this re-adaptation is probably to sell the animation of the Sequel better.

@Alexioos95 Do you mean selling a sequel immediately after a remake of a popular anime, rather than suddenly announcing a sequel to an old incomplete adaptation?

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Do you mean selling a sequel immediately after a remake of a popular anime, rather than suddenly announcing a sequel to an old incomplete adaptation?

Yeah.

That's probably one of the points which pushed them to produce this "Remake". Another one (the obvious one), is the huge popularity and success of the last two Live-Action Movies. From what was said in interviews, the production of this Season started in 2019, so around the same time as their announcements...

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Do you mean selling a sequel immediately after a remake of a popular anime, rather than suddenly announcing a sequel to an old incomplete adaptation?

Yeah.

That's probably one of the points which pushed them to produce this "Remake". Another one (the obvious one), is the huge popularity and success of the last two Live-Action Movies. From what was said in interviews, the production of this Season started in 2019, so around the same time as their announcements...

@Alexioos95 So, as Kenshin and One Piece show, a successful live action adaptation can really liven things up for anime? I don’t know if this had an impact, but I heard that Zom 100 and a couple of other new anime also had popular live action adaptations before.

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So, as Kenshin and One Piece show, a successful live action adaptation can really liven things up for anime?

Well, yeah.

Because if a Live-Action adaptation is successful and makes money... there is no reason an Anime adaptation couldn't too.
The producers are therefore more confident of their chances, and finance the project more easily. Everything is a question of money, especially for such companies.

Now, Rurouni Kenshin and One Piece were already big franchises, with huge success behind them... I don't think financing a new entry in them can have the same risk as a new series, be it in Anime or Live-Action.

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So, as Kenshin and One Piece show, a successful live action adaptation can really liven things up for anime?

Well, yeah.

Because if a Live-Action adaptation is successful and makes money... there is no reason an Anime adaptation couldn't too.
The producers are therefore more confident of their chances, and finance the project more easily. Everything is a question of money, especially for such companies.

Now, Rurouni Kenshin and One Piece were already big franchises, with huge success behind them... I don't think financing a new entry in them can have the same risk as a new series, be it in Anime or Live-Action.

@Alexioos95 Fortunately, we have outgrown the time when shoujo and josei were mostly adapted into live action formats in general.

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Updates : I've largely re-written all the notes.

This includes removing typos, adding points i missed, removing or changing inexact ones, and merging some points which could.
I tried using diverse words inside of the notes, did more developed sentences for the previous adaptation's comparisons, slightly redesigned the Google Sheets (even if i'm still not satisfied with it...), and removed my unquoted Updates posts (which were only made to bump the thread each week).

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