Kodoani.com – Fuji TV announced on Wednesday that a new TV anime project based on the manga Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki will premiere on Fuji TV’s Noitamina channel in July. The anime’s staff has revealed an image featuring the four main characters:
Sōma Saitō voices the main character in the series as Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi voices Kaoru Kamiya.
Taku Yashiro will voice Sanosuke Sagara.
Makoto Koichi will voice Yahiko Myojin.
The anime will re-adapt the main manga.
Hideyo Yamamoto is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Terumi Nishii is designing the characters and Hideyuki Kurata is writing the series. Yū Takami composed the music.
Watsuki and his wife novelist/story writer Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) manga in Shueisha’s Jump SQ magazine in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 after Watsuki was accused of possessing child pornography. The manga was then resumed in June 2018. Shueisha published the compiled eighth volume of the manga on January 4.
Watsuki launched the 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga for the first time in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga revolves around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life outside of violence.
The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode television anime series, an animated film, three original anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the troupe. All-female Takarazuka Revue.
