A Bit About Rurouni Kenshin

There are 3 sagas to Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai, Samurai X, and The Legendary Swordsman.  The one I will be focusing upon is Wandering Samurai.  

Ten years after the start of the Meiji Era, a Rurouni wanders into Tokyo to find a new life with his new friends. Vowing never to kill, he tries to escape his fate as the greatest killer of the Edo dynasty.

An old menace threatens the new Meiji Era, the villian is Shishio Makoto, the successor to the Hitokiri Battousai who left mysteriously near the end of the Edo Dynasty on a trek of reflection. Shishio and his Juppon Gatana are ready to start a new revolution to correct the wrong doings of the Western influence.