The production committee for the second season of Rurouni Kenshin has announced that the anime will begin airing in October 2024 for two consecutive cours. The first season was also broadcasted for back-to-back cours from July 7, 2023 until December 15, 2023.
The returning production staff for season two include Hideyo Yamamoto (My Master Has No Tail) as director, Hideyuki Kurata (Made in Abyss) as co-screenwriter and co-scriptwriter, Kaoru Kurosaki (Rurouni Kenshin -Ginmaku Sōshihen- light novel author) as co-screenwriter and script assistant, Terumi Nishii (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable) and Yoko Uchida as character designers, and Yuu Takami (Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin) as music composer. LIDENFILMS is handling the animation production once again for the series.
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Meanwhile, the previous voice actors from the first season are reprising their roles, with four additional cast members joining the main cast, which includes:
- • Souma Saitou as Kenshin Himura
- • Rie Takahashi as Kaoru Kamiya
- • Makoto Koichi as Myojin Yahiko
- • Taku Yashiro as Sagara Sanosuke
- • Yuuma Uchida as Shinomori Aoshi
- • Saori Oonishi as Takani Megumi
- • Makoto Furukawa as Makoto Shishio
- • Daiki Yamashita as Sojiro Seta
- • Aya Yamane as Misao Makimachi
- • Yuuichi Nakamura as Seijuro Hiko
Crunchyroll is streaming the 2023 Rurouni Kenshin TV anime series. It was previously adapted into a 1996 anime series, 1997 anime movie, and three OVAs. The series also inspired several live-action film adaptations, stage plays, video games, audio dramas, and more.
Nobuhiro Watsuki’s original manga ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from from April 12, 1994 to September 21, 1999. Its sequel manga Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc began serialization in Jump Square on September 4, 2017.
In November 2017, Watsuki was charged by prosecutors for simple possession of child pornography and was fined 200,000 yen (US$1,473.35) in 2018. The Hokkaido Arc was initially suspended in Jump Square magazine, before resuming serialization in June 2018.
Viz Media describes the Rurouni Kenshin manga as:
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the 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.
