This is an article I found in an Issue of "Animerica". I typed it up and asted it on my website, hoping it would catch your interests. Enjoy! ^_^

If you often find yourself interested in anime that can inspire laughter, cause you eyes to swel with salty tears, and excight you to the sofa's edge with sword clanking action all in one episode, then you will find Rurouni Kenshin worth investigaiting!
Originally serialized in Japanese Shonen Jump magazine in 1994, Nobuhiro Watsuki's immensely popular magna became a 95-episode television program, with its first episode airing in 1996. In ontrast to many recent Japanese TV offerings with much shorter life spans, Kenshin's longevity is testament to its boroad appeal. With dromatic relationships, intence martial arts, and abit of comedy thrown in, this show has something to offer a variety of anime enthusiasts.

Kenshin's protagonist and tittle character, Himura Kenshin, ia an ex-assasin and revolutionary turned peaceful woderer. His ultimate goal is to atone for the thousands of lives he has taken and to protect the innocent with his Sakabato (The Sakabato is a sword that is sharpened on the opposite side of the shaft, making it very difficult to fight with, or more, to kill.) In his former role as assassin for the Ishinshishi, a group of revolutionaries who wished to restore Japan to its former glory under the role ofthe Emperor, he came to be called the legendary Hitokiri (mankiller) Battousai. As such, he was aruably the greatest (fictional) samurai of the late Tokugawa period who brought peace to Japan and ushered in the Meiji Era bye destroying any man who apposed his noble cause.

As one could immagine, that is quite a title to hold, and it brings with it an enormous amount of baggage. Challlanges from manical samurai, a rentless goverment that wants nothing more than to recruit and manipulate him, and his own personal demons are all obsicles that Kenshin faces as the story progresses.

Kenshin has taken an oath against killing to atone for his sins as Hitokiri, entering his battles as a peaceful ronin instead of a feirce samurai killer he once was. In order to keep his promise, he Kenshin must often struggle with himself just to suppress his killing nature. This inner conflict coupled with a multitude of external threats from wikked baddies is the core of what makes Kenshin's story and character so compelling.