This is the details page for the manga "Rurouni Kenshin". Here you can see what the manga is about and what the main characters are. You can also read the manga.

Plot synopsis:

During the violent era known as the Bakumatsu, there was an Ishin assassin known only as the Hitokiri Battousai, whose skill and brutality became near legendary in the age of Restoration he helped to build. However, as the time of fighting drew to a close, he vanished without a trace, only to resurface eleven years later as a wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin. Now staying at a kenjutsu dojo maintained by a fiery-tempered woman named Kamiya Kaoru, and surrounded by newfound friends like the streetfighter Sagara Sanosuke, ex-samurai's son Myoujin Yahiko, and the shrewd doctor Takani Megumi, he seeks to carry out his vow to protect the weak without killing in order to atone for the lives he's taken. It's not long, though, before this vow is put to the test, and the shadows of his past return to haunt him and everyone he holds dear.

Main characters:

Himura Kenshin (Himura Kenshin)
During the story Kenshin wanders around Japan to help those in need in order to atone for the murders he committed during the Bakumatsu. When he arrives in Tokyo, Kenshin meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru who invites him to live in her dojo despite finding out that Kenshin is a hitokiri. Significant instances transpire from that point, and Kenshin establishes lifelong relationships with many people, including ex-enemies.


Kamiya Kaoru (Kamiya Kaoru)
The teacher of a kendo school from Tokyo called Kamiya Kasshin-Ryuu. The school starts to lose all its students when a thief from the city starts killing a large number of people and claims to be the "Hitokiri Battousai from the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryuu". Kaoru encounters him but before being killed by him she is saved by the real Hitokiri Battousai, now a wanderer, Himura Kenshin, to whom she offers to stay in her dojo.

Myoujin Yahiko (Myoujin Yahiko)
An orphan from a samurai family and was forced to work as a thief to repay the debt that he had supposedly owed due to his parents death before they could pay it back. When he meets Kenshin, he is saved by Kenshin, and decides that he would grow up to be just like Kenshin. But due to Kenshin's strong beliefs in not teaching anyone else the sword style he had obtained, he enlisted yahiko to be trained by Kaoru at the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryuu.


Sagara Sanosuke (Sagara Sanosuke)
A former member of the Sekihotai who becomes a fighter-for-hire after its destruction. During his introduction he encounters Kenshin, who defeats him easily and makes him note he was just fighting to delete his anger. Since that moment, Sanosuke becomes a friend of Kenshin and also his partner.

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