C-Interactive now released the DVD copy of RUROUNI KENSHIN!
RUROUNI KENSHIN grossed over $25 million in Japan, beating PROMETHEUS in the same week of release. It was also selected for the 2012 Japanese Film Festival in Melbourne and Sydney. The first movie to sell out its screenings in both cities, RUROUNI KENSHIN was given bonus screenings which also sold out.
Initially published in Weekly Shonen Jump, the manga Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Roomantan) made waves as a series like no other, even going on to gain a large female reader base. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1994-1999. Collected in 28 volumes, Rurouni Kenshin has sold over 54 million copies and been published in 23 countries (including a US release from Viz Media). A new manga series,Rurouni Kenshin Restoration (るろうに剣心 -キネマ版-, Rurouni Kenshin -Kinema-ban-), debuted in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine this past June, with the English translated version currently running in Viz’s digital manga Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha.
The manga was adapted into a 95 episode RUROUNI KENSHIN (るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪漫譚―, aka SAMURAI X) anime series which aired from 1995-1998, the anime feature film RUROUNI KENSHIN: THE MOTION PICTURE (るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪漫譚―維新志士への鎮魂歌, Rurouni Kenshin: Ishin Shishi no Chinkonka, 1997) and the OAVs RUROUNI KENSHIN: TRUST AND BETRAYAL (るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪漫譚―追憶編, Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku Hen, 1999), RUROUNI KENSHIN: REFLECTION (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 星霜編, Ruroni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan Seisohen, 2001) and RUROUNI KENSHIN: NEW KYOTO ARC (るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪満譚― 新京都編, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Shin Kyoto-Hen, 2011).
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