Aniplex unveiled a brand new promotional video and visible for Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Kyoto Dōran (Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance), the second season of the brand new tv anime project primarily based on Nobuhiro Watsuki‘s Rurouni Kenshin manga, throughout the Aniplex On-line Fest stream on Monday. The video reveals extra solid, reveals and previews the opening theme tune “Iranai Mono” (Pointless Issues) by Tatsuya Kitani and natori, and divulges the anime’s October 3 premiere date.
The three new solid members all play allies and accomplices of Shishio, and embody Haruka Tomatsu as Yumi Komagata, Wataru Hatano as Anji Yukyūzan, and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Chō Sawagejō.
The anime will premiere on Fuji TV, Kansai TV, Tokai TV, Akita TV, Iwate Menkoi TV, Sendai Television Incorporated, Sakuranbo Television Broadcasting Corporation, Fukushima TV, Niigata Sogo Television Inc., TV Shizuoka, TV Shinhiroshima, TV Ehime, TV Nishinippon, Saga TV, TV Kumamoto, and Kagoshima TV on October 3; on Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting on October 9; on San-in Chuo Tv Broadcasting on October 14, on Animax on October 28, and on Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting, Inc. on October 31. On Fuji TV, the anime will run throughout the channel’s Noitamina animation block. The anime will air for a steady two cours (quarter of a yr) for a half-year run.
The anime could have advance screenings on the TOHO Cinemas Nihonbashi in Tokyo, and on the T-Joy Kyoto cinema on September 22. The advance screening’s areas symbolize the place to begin (Nihonbashi in Tokyo) and the tip level (Kyoto) of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, the remainder areas alongside the Tōkaidō coastal route in historic Japan, and the identical route protagonist Kenshin Himura took to journey to Kyoto.
Yuki Komada (BUILD-DIVIDE -#000000- CODE BLACK and BUILD-DIVIDE -#FFFFFF- CODE WHITE collection) is directing the brand new season at LIDEN FILMS. Hideyuki Kurata returns for collection scripts, Terumi Nishii additionally returns to design the characters, and is joined by Kazuo Watanabe (first season’s sub-character designer, chief animation director). Yū Takami is once more composing the music.
The primary season of the brand new anime premiered on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina programming block and different venues in July 2023. The anime ran for 2 consecutive cours (quarter of a yr). The second cours started in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the collection because it aired, and additionally it is streaming an English dub.
The anime re-adapts the primary manga collection.
Sōma Saitō stars within the collection as Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi costars as Kaoru Kamiya. Taku Yashiro performs Sanosuke Sagara, and Makoto Koichi voices Yahiko Myojin. Yūma Uchida voices Shinomori Aoshi, and Saori Ōnishi voices Megumi Takani. Satoshi Hino performs Hajime Saitō.
The anime additionally stars:
- Makoto Furukawa as Makoto Shishio
- Daiki Yamashita as Sojiro Seta
- Aya Yamane as Misao Makimachi
- Yūichi Nakamura as Seijuro Hiko
Watsuki and his novelist spouse/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō-hen) manga in Shueisha‘s Jump SQ. journal in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 following Watsuki being charged for possession of kid pornography. The collection later resumed publication in June 2018.
Viz Media had been concurrently publishing the manga in English, however stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump journal in 1994. The manga has greater than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga facilities round Kenshin Himura, as soon as a lethal murderer throughout the Meiji Restoration, who’s looking for a brand new life past violence.
The manga has since been tailored right into a 95-episode TV anime collection, an anime movie, three unique video anime tasks, 5 live-action movies, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.
Supply: Rurouni Kenshin anime’s website
