Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away. His travels lead him to Tokyo in the 11th year of the Meiji era, where he befriends a female Kendo master, a former thief, a brawler and a doctor all with their own secrets. Together they fight off the enemies surfacing from the dark past that Kenshin cannot escape. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Sílvio Benedito Guimarães Navas, better known only as Sílvio Navas, was a Brazilian actor, voice actor and dubbing director.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Bud Spencer, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Charles Chaplin and Fred Astaire (Most of the productions)
- Mumm-Ra (1st voice; Thundercats)
- Darth Vader (1st dub; Star Wars franchise)
- Don Vito Corleone (2nd dub; The Godfather)
- Bender Rodríguez (2nd voice - 3rd to 4th season; Futurama)
- Fidget the Bat (The Great Mouse Detective)
- Papa Smurf, Vanity Smurf and Farmer Smurf (Smurfs 1981)
- Darkseid (The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)
- Charles Phillip Ingalls (1st voice; Little House on the Prairie)
- J. Wellington Wimpy (Popeye 1980)
!~

One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
 
(Source: VIZ Media)
 
Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Rurōni -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- (second one-shot for the series, which Watsuki calls a "side-story") 
Volume 3: Rurōni -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- (first one-shot for the series, which Watsuki calls the "pilot") 
Volume 6: Sengoku no Mikazuki (Nobuhiro Watsuki's debut one-shot) 
Volume 28: Meteor Strike

Re-adaptation of the main manga series.
 
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
 
(Source: VIZ Media)

Mitsuru Ogata is a Japanese voice actor. He is affiliated with Mausu Promotion

Kenshin’s history of death and destruction has left him known throughout all of Japan as the sword-bearing master assassin. Seeking retribution for his past, Kenshin wanders further away to a place he can call home. Although creating a time of peace through his actions, Kenshin continues to distance himself from the ones he loves. Kenshin’s wife, Kaoru, anxiously waits for the moment of his return. Will Kenshin ever return to his wife before she passes away from waiting?
 
(Source: Aniplex of America)

Birthplace: München, Germany

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The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom and prosperity. Now he and a band of desperate rebels have sworn to settle one final score. Only one man stands in their way: Kenshin Himura. But when Shigure discovers Kenshin's true identity as the Hitokiri Battousai, his fight becomes a personal vendetta.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Hometown:__ Weimar, Germany

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Aritomo Yamagata