Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Shin Kyoto-hen


Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc

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Synonyms: Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto Hen
Japanese: るろうに剣心-明治剣客浪漫譚- 新京都編
English: Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc
German: Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc
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Information

Type: OVA
Episodes: 2
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 17, 2011 to Jun 23, 2012
Producers: Aniplex
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama
Themes: HistoricalHistorical, SamuraiSamurai
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 46 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.121 (scored by 1313713,137 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #37492
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Popularity: #4259
Members: 29,524
Favorites: 46

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Synopsis

A large scale remake of the time after Kenshin leaves Tokyo up until before the inferno of Kyoto.

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Staff

Abe, Ai
Producer
Matsuda, Keiichi
Producer
Furuhashi, Kazuhiro
Director, Storyboard
Kaburagi, Hiro
Episode Director, Storyboard


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Ending Theme

1: "Nanairo no Kaze (七色の風)" by Rina Sumioka (住岡梨奈)
2: "feel you" by Rina Sumioka (住岡梨奈)




Reviews

Aug 15, 2020
A remake of the Kyoto arc with better animation, some good music tracks and some really bad changes to the plot. The studio have wasted all their efforts on this one.

why?

The Kyoto arc of the main series was good. So they could have done better with this one with some good plot changes. But had to ruin that with some bad changes. Unlike the main's Kyoto arc which was really long in this one they rushed the whole thing even the fight scenes which I found better than the main series.

The animation is fine. But some things are off about the character design ...
Jun 11, 2015
Mixed Feelings
I’m not going to use any arbitrary numbers because that won’t provide an accurate representation of what I just watched. One thing I’d advise before ever picking this title up is be sure you watched the original Rurouni Kenshin series prior. If you don’t you might be completely undone before you get to some of the juicier bits of this two part series. For everyone whose unaware of the story surrounding the New Kyoto Arc in Kenshin these films(?) are hard to follow and don’t convey enough of what made the original run of the arc so satisfying.

Now I’m not going to waste time arguing ...
Sep 27, 2022
Rurouni Kenshin New Kyoto Arc is quite disappointing and not something I can recommend.

Cramming a 30 episode arc into 90 minutes isn’t the best idea and did not work out. They drastically rewrote key elements and set pieces, as well as omitting characters and taking severe creative liberty to condense it for time. The OVA took a darker turn which ended up contradicting many of the characters and forgoing their development. The most egregious example of which is the main protagonist himself, Kenshin. He is way more brutal in this appearance, for some reason. Nearly all the fights are inferior compared to the original ...

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Recent Forum Discussion

Poll: Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto Hen Episode 2 Discussion
tsubasalover - Aug 27, 2012
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MillaMaxwell - Mar 21, 2012
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Jan 17, 2022 10:31 AM
What are the episodes of the arc in the anime?
PikachuAnime1998 - Aug 23, 2018
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