Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance Anime's 5th Video Unveils New Ending Song
Aniplex posted the fifth full promotional video for Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance (Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Kyoto Dōran), the second season of the new television anime project based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga. on Wednesday. The video announces and previews the new ending theme song "Tada Hitotsu" (Just One) by singer-songwriter Zarame.The song will debut with the show's second cours (quarter of a year) on Thursday. The artists yama✕WurtS perform the new opening theme song "BURN." The full cast of the "Shishio Faction" (pictured above), including new cast members, includes: Crunchyroll describes the season: Yuki Komada (BUILD-DIVIDE -#000000- CODE BLACK and BUILD-DIVIDE -#FFFFFF- CODE WHITE series) is directing the new season at LIDEN FILMS. Hideyuki Kurata returns for series scripts, Terumi Nishii also returns to design the characters, and is joined by Kazuo Watanabe (first season's sub-character designer, chief animation director). Yū Takami is again composing the music.The first season of the new anime premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block and other venues in July 2023. The season ran for two consecutive cours. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired, and it is also streaming an English dub.The anime re-adapts the main manga series.Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō-hen) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 following Watsuki being charged for possession of child pornography. The series later resumed publication in June 2018. The manga has been on hiatus since May, and the hiatus is continuing due to Watsuki's health.Viz Media had been simultaneously publishing the manga in English, but stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence. The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode TV anime series, an anime film, three original video anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.Source: Comic Natalie
