A fifth new PV trailer has been unveiled for the ongoing Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- TV anime series, highlighting the new ending theme for season two’s second cour. The second season’s 13th episode is scheduled to air in Japan on January 9, 2025.
The new ending theme featured in the trailer is “Tada Hitotsu” by Zarame. Meanwhile, the second cour’s new opening theme is “BURN” by artists yama✕WurtS. An English-subtitled version of the trailer was also released.
The second season of Rurouni Kenshin first premiered in Japan on October 3, 2024 and will run for two cours at 23 episodes. The first season premiered in July 2023 and was also broadcast for two consecutive cours.
Some new production staff are joining to work on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance-. Yuki Komada (BUILD-DIVIDE -#000000- CODE BLACK and BUILD-DIVIDE -#FFFFFF- CODE WHITE series) is directing the second season, with Hideyuki Kurata (Made in Abyss) returning as co-screenwriter and co-scriptwriter, Kaoru Kurosaki as series screenwriter and script assistant, and original series creator Nobuhiro Watsuki (previously script cooperation) as script supervisor. LIDEN FILMS is in charge of the animation production once again.
Other staff include Terumi Nishii (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable) and Kazuo Watanabe (first season’s sub-character designer, chief animation director) as co-character designers, and Yu Takami (Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin) as music composer.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Soma Saito as Kenshin Himura
- • Rie Takahashi as Kaoru Kamiya
- • Makoto Koichi as Myojin Yahiko
- • Taku Yashiro as Sagara Sanosuke
- • Yuma Uchida as Shinomori Aoshi
- • Saori Onishi as Takani Megumi
- • Makoto Furukawa as Makoto Shishio
- • Daiki Yamashita as Sojiro Seta
- • Aya Yamane as Misao Makimachi
- • Yuichi Nakamura as Seijuro Hiko
- • Haruka Tomatsu as Yumi Komagata
- • Wataru Hatano as Anji Yukyuzan
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Cho Sawagejo
- • Junichi Suwabe as Usui Uonuma
- • Ayumu Murase as Kamatari Honjo
- • Ryota Osaka as Henya Kariwa
- • Takumi Yamazaki as Iwanbo
Crunchyroll is currently 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, and audio dramas, among others.
Nobuhiro Watsuki’s original manga ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from April 12, 1994 to September 21, 1999 for 28 total tankobon volumes. Its sequel manga Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc was launched in Jump Square on September 4, 2017. Nine tankobon volumes of the sequel series have been released as of November 2023.
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 releases the Rurouni Kenshin manga series in English, describing the main synopsis 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.
Source: Rurouni Kenshin Official English Twitter, Aniplex USA YouTube Channel
