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Himura Kenshin poster
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| Himura Kenshin poster |
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Kenshin is born into a peasant family under the given name of "Shinta". After losing both his parents to cholera by age seven, he was later sold into slavery. However, when the slave-traders' caravan was attacked by bandits who killed all with the exception of Shinta. It is then that Hiko Seijūrō XIII intervened, killing all the thieves. Hiko decided to adopt Shinta into his Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryū apprenticeship, and renames him "Kenshin" (with 'Ken' meaning 'sword' and 'Shin' meaning 'heart'), believing that 'Shinta' was not a fitting name for a swordsman.
After a few years under Hiko's guidance, Kenshin's wish to protect the people with his skills during the revolutionary movement clashes with Hiko's neutral standpoint, who claims that whoever acquires Kenshin would be granted victory. This results in his abandonment of both his master and his training. His sword skills soon attract the attention of Takasugi Shinsaku, commander of the Kiheitai, and is later transferred into the ranks of Katsura Kogoro, the leader of the Chōshū clan, Ishin Shishi.
Kenshin is sent to Kyoto and assigned the role of an assassin, sharing the common goal of the Ishin Shishi to deliver "Tenchu" (punishment from the heavens) upon the Tokugawa Shogunate. Within the first six months of his career, he kills over 100 people, and eventually became known as the Hitokiri Battōsai. At some time, he comes face to face with Yukishiro Tomoe, who although she wanted to avenge the death of her fiancé, a bodyguard whom Kenshin had killed, with whom he would fall in love. After the crisis suffered by the Chōshū clan in the Ikedaya Jiken, Katsura orders Kenshin and Tomoe to abandon Kyoto and flee to a remote village. He also orders them to put on the facade of a pair of pharmacists, as husband and wife.
Sometime later, Tomoe, who had initially intended to kill Kenshin for revenge, but did not realize she would come to love him, meets with the leader of the Yaminobu - a pro-Shogunate covert network that had formulated a plan to assassinate Kenshin. She realizes that all along they had actually used her to create Kenshin's weakness. Meanwhile, desperate to find his wife, Kenshin runs off, but is ambushed by several Yaminobu ninjas, each of whom manages to wound him severely and make him lose his senses by killing themselves with explosives. He eventually finds Tomoe along with the leader, and in a desperate attempt to defeat the leader, Kenshin blindly swings his sword, killing both his assailant and Tomoe, who had jumped in at the last minute to save Kenshin from a fatal attack. Kenshin was unaware of her intervention until it was too late. The knife had flown from Tomoe's hands into the air and coincidentally slashed Kenshin's cheek, creating the famous X-shaped scar across his cheek.
Following the death of his wife, Kenshin tells Katsura that he will never kill again once the Revolution is over. Katsura then replaces Kenshin's role as an assassin and instead has Kenshin fight as a guerrilla swordsman to protect the Imperialists. After many wars, Kenshin thrusts his sword into the ground and disappears.
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| Date: |
24.01.2008 22:21 |
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