Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku Hen/Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (4 Episodes)

The story begins with young Shinta (Kenshin’s birth name) with his future master Seijuro Hiko, who saves him from death in a bandit raid. Hiko tells the boy to go to the nearby village and live there. But when he visits the village, there is no boy. Upon his return to the site of the attack, he finds all the dead buried by Shinta, who expresses his regret for not being able to protect the ones he was with. Hiko then offers to properly train the boy so he could protect people, and changes the boy’s name to Kenshin, a name more appropriate for a swordsman.

During his time as a hitokiri, Kenshin kills a bodyguard named Kyosato Akira, who is the fiancé of Tomoe. The encounter with Kyosato leaves Kenshin with the first half of his cross shaped scar.

After a fight with an assassin, Kenshin meets Tomoe. Kenshin takes her to the inn where he is residing, where the owner mistakes her for a prostitute and nearly sends her away. The presence of her there brings a sort of relief to the stressed men of the Choshu clan, but raises the suspicion of the leader, Kogoro Katsura, who has her investigated covertly.

After the Ikedaya affair, when Kenshin’s cover as the shadow hitokiri is blown, Katsura arranges for Kenshin and Tomoe to hide in the village of Otsu. After a few months, Tomoe’s brother Enishi comes to visit and secretly reveals to his sister that the shogunate spies assigned to track down and kill Kenshin are close by, and that her revenge will be complete. After sending off Enishi, Tomoe leaves the house and tries to persuade the shogunate men to give up their pursuit of Kenshin, and attempts to kill their leader.

The morning of his wife’s disappearance, Kenshin is visited by a comrade who tells him that the one who set the assassin on him was Tomoe and that she is meeting at that moment with her co-conspirators.

On his way toward the house where Tomoe is supposed to be, Kenshin faces three of the four shogunate agents and is badly injured. While Kenshin is fighting with the fourth agent, Tomoe steps in between the two persons and gets killed by accident. Before her death, she gives him the second part of his cross-shaped wound. Kenshin takes her death hard and swears after burning her body to fight to bring about the age desired by his employer Katsura, and after that to continue fighting to protect down-trodden people without taking another life.

Rurouni Kenshin - Seisohen/Samurai X: Reflection (2 Episodes)

The OVA starts out as a montage of singular events surrounding the life of Kenshin, told from the point of view of Kaoru. Then the remainder of it involves Kenshin, who becomes tortured anew by the guilt of leading a happy life after such a destructive past. He makes the decision to wander again, and Kaoru strongly supports him, promising to welcome him home with a smile and their child. For fifteen years, he wanders, returning every once in a while.

However, this leads his son, Kenji Himura to hold resentment towards Kenshin for leaving them. Now in his adolescence, he leaves for Kyoto hoping to learn Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu from Seijuro Hiko, hoping to be as strong as his father, and create his own legend. Soon however, Yahiko Myojin tracks him down at the request of Kaoru. It is noted that he wears the mark of evil on his back, too. Yahiko duels him to show him the delusions of his father’s greatness. Yahiko admits he’s a genius and has natural talent as a swordsman. However, he knew that neither passion, discipline, nor skill would make Kenji superior to his father. So, in a one final strike, Yahiko lets Kenji experience the full blunt of Kenshin’s Sakabatou; allowing Kenji to ‘experience’ the ’strength’ of his father’s philosophy firsthand. Falling to his knee, Yahiko presented Kenji with the Sakabat? as a late genpuku gift, hoping that now he’d realize that Kenshin’s strength lay not in his ability to kill, but in his appreciation of life, his devotion and self-sacrifice to those in need.

Meanwhile, Kenshin eventually becomes ravaged by an unknown disease that is much like leprosy (the writers have admitted there is no medical explanation for his condition). To share his pain, Kaoru convinces Kenshin to infect her with the disease through sexual intercourse. Kenshin then leaves to go assist in the First Sino-Japanese War (primarily over control of Korea) as he had promised the Meiji Government, not fighting and killing, but instead helping people.

After the war’s end, Sanosuke discovers a very ill Kenshin sometime after he had fallen overboard on a ship. Sanosuke arranges Kenshin’s return to Tokyo by boat. Upon arriving, a bed ridden Kaoru, almost on instinct, gets up to walk outside the dojo on the cherry blossom path, seeing her husband struggling with each step to meet her.

The two finally meet, and Kenshin collapses into her arms as he clutches her to him. They end up beneath a cherry blossom tree, where Kaoru tells him that they will invite the others for a cherry blossom viewing, and continue to gather in the years to come. With the silence growing stronger, Kaoru realizes that Kenshin has died quietly in her arms. Upon brushing his hair off his left cheek, Kaoru notices Kenshin’s scar has faded away, signifying an end to his life of pain and bloodshed and commencement to a life of peace. In the final scene before the credits, she holds his head in her arms and weeps.

After the credits finish rolling, there is a scene which shows Kenshin and Kaoru’s son, Kenji, walking with a young girl beneath the cherry blossoms, saying that they will live happily together.

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