An abbreviation for Nobuhiro Watsuki's
popular manga series, Rurouni Kenshin. This is Watsuki's first manga. First released in
Japan (of course) but later came to the
US.
Consisting of twenty-eight volumes, it tells the story of Himura Kenshin, a hitokiri (assasin) of the Bakumatsu turned rurouni (wanderer) in the new Meiji Era, with a dark past and a vow to never take another life.
Now he must protect his friends in the preasent with his reverse
blade sword, a Sakabato while trying to attone for the sins of his hitokiri days.