"Soro... soro... de gozaru yo." (I shall take my leave.)
, who has traded his blood-stained past for a life as a wanderer. The Duality of the "Sakabato" The core symbol of the series is Kenshin’s The Rurouni Kenshin
The brilliance of the series lies in its protagonist. Himura Kenshin is an inversion of the typical shonen hero. He is not a young boy striving to become the strongest; he is a twenty-eight-year-old veteran who was the strongest, and is now exhausted by the weight of that title. The Duality of the "Sakabato" The core symbol
Enter Himura Kenshin. Known during the Bakumatsu War as "Hitokiri Battosai" (The Sword-Drawing Manslayer), Kenshin was the most feared assassin of the Imperialist faction. Yet, at the dawn of a new era, he vanishes. He emerges in Tokyo as a small, red-haired, cross-scarred wanderer carrying a sakabato —a katana forged with the blade on the reverse side, making it virtually impossible to kill. Enter Himura Kenshin