![]() ![]() It is by this time that Tomoe has truly fallen in love with Kenshin (and he with her), and no longer seeks revenge. Tomoe sends Enishi off, feeling ill at ease. After a few months living in peace together, Tomoe's brother, Enishi, comes to visit their house and secretly reveals to his sister that the Shogunate agents assigned to kill Kenshin are close by, and that they will soon avenge her dead fiancee. During this time, Kenshin and Tomoe grow close to each other as she helps him slowly regain his humanity after realizing how tortured he is internally over his role as an assassin.Īfter the Ikedaya incident in Kyōto, Katsura arranges for Kenshin and Tomoe to hide in the remote village of Otsu as a married couple in order to avoid suspicion. Katsura suspects a spy among the Chōshū after Kenshin informs him of the assassin he killed. Tomoe agrees to stay and work as one of the inn's servants. Kenshin contemplates killing her for witnessing his actions, but decides to instead take her to the inn that he and other swordsmen of the Chōshū clan are residing. After killing a fellow skilled assassin sometime later, Kenshin meets a beautiful woman named Tomoe who, unknown to him, was Kiyosato's fiancée. This encounter with Kiyosato leaves Kenshin with the first half of his cross-shaped scar on his left cheek. In 1864, during a successful nighttime assassination in the streets of Kyōto, he kills a bodyguard named Kiyosato Akira. Kenshin quickly becomes a hardened killer, feared far and wide as the Hitokiri Battōsai. He joins the Chōshū Ishin Shishi and soon works for their leader, Katsura Kogorō, as an assassin. He then renames the boy Kenshin, a name he considers to be more appropriate for a swordsman.Īfter several years of training, Kenshin leaves his master (against Hiko's wishes) to take part in the Bakumatsu revolution poised to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. Hiko is impressed when the boy buries all of the dead (including the bandits), and decides to take Shinta as his apprentice. The swordsman, known as Hiko Seijūrō, is a master of the strongest of all sword forms, Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū. When a raid of murderous bandits ambush a caravan of travelers in 1850s Japan, a young red-haired boy named Shinta becomes the sole survivor of this massacre when a passing swordsman slays all of the bandits before they can also kill the boy. It remains highly popular among anime fans and it is widely credited as one of the greatest OVAs of all time. Since its release, the OVA has received near-universal critical acclaim from various critics and publications for manga, anime and other media. After ADV Films' closure in 2009, Aniplex of America licensed the OVA series for a Blu-ray release in North America under its original title: Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal. In 2003, this movie edition was eventually released in North America on DVD as a "Director's Cut" edition by ADV Films. The OVA was later compiled together as a two-hour feature-length motion picture with new animated sequences and an altered music soundtrack, which was released theatrically in Japan. The OVA series was first licensed by ADV Films in 2000 for VHS and DVD releases in North America and the United Kingdom, under the title Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, as well as by Madman Entertainment for releases in Australasia. Kenshin's first encounters with his master, Hiko Seijūrō XIII, and his rival/future ally, Saitō Hajime, are also depicted. It chronicles the story of Himura Kenshin during his role in the Meiji Restoration as a legendary assassin of the Imperialist cause, while also revealing the origins of his famous cross-shaped scar and exploring his relationship with his first wife, Himura Tomoe. The OVA is based on the Remembrance Arc (chapters 165 to 179) of the manga. It was released in Japan in 1999, directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and written by Masashi Sogo. 4 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, known in Japan as Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Rōman Tan- Tsuioku-hen (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 追憶編, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story – Recollection or Reminiscence Chapter), is a four-part OVA (Original Video Animation) based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki, and it is a prequel to the anime television series adaptation of the same name.
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