Himura Kenshin still searches for atonement...
...and Kamiya Kaoru waits patiently for his return, together with their son, Kenji.
It is a battle of love and endurance, as much as it is of justice and inner peace.
Witness the closing of a timeless tale, the ending of a legend, as continued from that of the manga.
Note: Seisou Hen was later collected into a feature-length…
Watsuki Nobuhiro
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Note: The first four episodes received an early screening at a special event on 22 September 2024 at TOHO Cinemas Nihonbashi in Tokyo and at T-Joy Kyoto in Kyoto. The regular TV broadcast started on 4 October 2024.
During the upheaval of the Bakumatsu Era, there was an Imperialist warrior feared as the "Hitokiri Battosai." However, upon the arrival of the new era the Battosai disappeared from the public eye, leaving behind just his legend of the strongest Revolutionary warrior.
Years later in downtown Tokyo, on the 11th year of Meiji.
Himura Kenshin, a traveling swordsman who vowed to…
* Based on a shounen manga by Watsuki Nobuhiro, serialised in Weekly Shounen Jump.
The story begins when high school student Mutou Kazuki is killed one night saving a mysterious girl from a monster, only to wake up and find it was only a dream. However, he soon finds out how real that dream was when a giant serpentine monster attacks him and his sister. Tsumura Tokiko, the…
Another short story taking place in the Embalming universe.
Note: Volume 10 of Busou Renkin includes the pilot story Embalming -Dead Body and Bride- along with liner notes for both it and Busou Renkin.
From Viz:
Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time! High school student Kazuki Muto had no clue what he was in for when he rescued damsel in distress Tokiko from a monster known as a "homunculus." Disguised as humans--who actually eat humans--homunculi are malevolent creatures that affix themselves to people's brains, and once fully grown, the only thing that can…
A story based on the concept of Frankenstein. The late scientist Victor Frankenstein's papers on the creation of a "frankenstein" are being put to use, and Fury Flatliner, motivated by revenge, sets out to kill them and their creator.
Note: Volume 10 of Busou Renkin includes the pilot story Embalming —Corpse and Bride— along with liner notes for both it and Busou Renkin.
From Viz:
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with he coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
Vol…