Aniplex has revealed a second new key visual and PV trailer for the upcoming Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance TV anime series, which will premiere in Japan on October 3, 2024. Both the new visual and trailer were released during Aniplex Online Fest 2024.
The third new English-subbed official trailer for the second season highlights Kenshin and friends as they face a new adversary. It also previews the main opening theme “Chained” by Tatsuya Kitani and natori.
Additionally, three new cast members will be playing accomplices of the new arc’s antagonist, Shishio. They include Haruka Tomatsu as Yumi Komagata, Wataru Hatano as Anji Yukyuzan, and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Cho Sawagejo.
They join a main voice cast that 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
Some new production staff are joining to work on the Kyoto Disturbance anime. 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, 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. LIDEN FILMS is in charge of the animation production once again.
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 was serialized 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, and describes 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, Official Anime Website
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