Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen

After taking part in the Boshin War as the assassin "Hitokiri Battsai," Himura Kenshin wanders the Japanese countryside in the early Meiji era. He is armed with a reverse blade katana. As restitution for the killings he once committed, he is providing security and assistance to people in need. When he first arrives in Tokyo in the eleventh year of Meiji (1878), he encounters a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru who is engaged in a struggle with a killer who is slandering the reputation of the swordsmanship school she runs by claiming to be the Hitokiri Battsai. Kenshin agrees to assist her and vanquishes the fictitious Battsai. Kaoru offers Kenshin a place to stay at her dojo after learning that he is the genuine notorious assassin, observing that he is not as cold-hearted as his reputation would suggest. Sagara Sanosuke, a former Sekih Army soldier, Myjin Yahiko, an orphan from a samurai family who is now living with Kaoru as her pupil, and Takani Megumi, a doctor who was caught up in the opium trade are just a few of the people Kenshin accepts and starts building lifetime ties with. Shinomori Aoshi, the former head of the Oniwabansh, is only one of his many adversaries, both old and new.