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** Sanosuke's zanbatō is a notable aversion, as it has no edge at all.

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** Sanosuke's zanbatō is a notable aversion, as it has no edge at all.all and he uses it more like an oversized club.

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* CatSmile: Well more like fox face, Megumi does this every once in a while when teasing Kaoru.



* PintsizedPowerhouse: Kenshin; Yahiko to an extent.
* PirateGirl: The {{filler}} character Shura.

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* %%* PirateGirl: The {{filler}} character Shura.Shura.
* PlayfulCatSmile: Well more like fox face, Megumi does this every once in a while when teasing Kaoru.



* PromotionToParent: Tomoe.
** Also, as referred to above, Anji to the orphans he looked after.

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** %%** Also, as referred to above, Anji to the orphans he looked after.
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There was a revival of the franchise in the form of a new [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] [[LicensedGame game]], and a series of Japanese-produced live-action movies. The first one, entitled simply ''Film/RurouniKenshin'', was received with critical acclaim in 2012 and was distributed worldwide. Sequels immediately followed: ''Film/RurouniKenshinKyotoInferno'' and ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheLegendEnds'' adapted the Kyoto arc, and were released in 2014, to large critical and commercial acclaim all over Asia. Additionally, two more films, ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheFinal'' and ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheBeginning'', covering the Jinchū and Tsuiokuhen arcs, arrived in 2021.

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There was a revival of the franchise in the form of a new [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]] [[LicensedGame game]], and a series of Japanese-produced live-action movies. The first one, entitled simply ''Film/RurouniKenshin'', was received with critical acclaim in 2012 and was distributed worldwide. Sequels immediately followed: ''Film/RurouniKenshinKyotoInferno'' and ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheLegendEnds'' adapted the Kyoto arc, and were released in 2014, to large critical and commercial acclaim all over Asia. Additionally, two more films, ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheFinal'' and ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheBeginning'', covering the Jinchū and Tsuiokuhen arcs, arrived in 2021.
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** The 2023 anime does this for Tsukioka Tsunan in a big way. In previous portrayals, Katsu wasn't shown to be in the same league as Sanosuke in an all-out brawl, being played as more of a LongRangerFighter who threw explosives. However, in an additional scene for the series that wasn't in the source material, Katsu got into a brawl with Sanosuke and exchanged blows with him for a period of time, showing that 2023 Katsu is a decent hand-to-hand fighter in his own right.

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** The 2023 anime does this for Tsukioka Tsunan in a big way. In previous portrayals, Katsu wasn't shown to be in the same league as Sanosuke in an all-out brawl, being played as more of a LongRangerFighter LongRangeFighter who threw explosives. However, in an additional scene for the series that wasn't in the source material, Katsu got into a brawl with Sanosuke and exchanged blows with him for a period of time, showing that 2023 Katsu is a decent hand-to-hand fighter in his own right.
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** The 2023 anime does this for Tsukioka Tsunan in a big way. In previous portrayals, Katsu wasn't shown to be in the same league as Sanosuke in an all-out brawl, being played as more of a LongRangerFighter who threw explosives. However, in an additional scene for the series that wasn't in the source material, Katsu got into a brawl with Sanosuke and exchanged blows with him for a period of time, showing that 2023 Katsu is a decent hand-to-hand fighter in his own right.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: In the anime filler, the anime-exclusive villain Gekki who mutinied against Shura has a distinctly inhuman appearance in a series that's largely devoid of supernatural elements. He resembles a goblin with a long nose, pointy ears, yellow skin, and upward fangs on his mouth. However, nobody ever comments on his appearance and whether or not he's even human. While later on in the manga series, there are human characters like Yatsume Mumyoi who have a monstrous appearance but are at least given an explanation for why they look that way, no explanation is given for why Gekki resembles an orc or goblin.


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* AmbiguouslyHuman: In the anime filler, the anime-exclusive villain Gekki who mutinied against Shura has a distinctly inhuman appearance in a series that's largely devoid of supernatural elements. He resembles a goblin with a long nose, pointy ears, yellow skin, and upward fangs on his mouth. However, nobody ever comments on his appearance and whether or not he's even human. While later on in the manga series, there are human characters like Yatsume Mumyoi who have a monstrous appearance but are at least given an explanation for why they look that way, no explanation is given for why Gekki resembles an orc or goblin.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: In the anime filler, the anime-exclusive villain Gekki who mutinied against Shura has a distinctly inhuman appearance in a series that's largely devoid of supernatural elements. He resembles a goblin with a long nose, pointy ears, and upward fangs on his mouth. However, nobody ever comments on his appearance and whether or not he's even human. While later on in the manga series, there are human characters like Yatsume Mumyoi who have a monstrous appearance but are at least given an explanation for why they look that way, no explanation is given for why Gekki resembles an orc or goblin.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: In the anime filler, the anime-exclusive villain Gekki who mutinied against Shura has a distinctly inhuman appearance in a series that's largely devoid of supernatural elements. He resembles a goblin with a long nose, pointy ears, yellow skin, and upward fangs on his mouth. However, nobody ever comments on his appearance and whether or not he's even human. While later on in the manga series, there are human characters like Yatsume Mumyoi who have a monstrous appearance but are at least given an explanation for why they look that way, no explanation is given for why Gekki resembles an orc or goblin.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: In the anime filler, the anime-exclusive villain Gekki who mutinied against Shura has a distinctly inhuman appearance in a series that's largely devoid of supernatural elements. He resembles a goblin with a long nose, pointy ears, and upward fangs on his mouth. However, nobody ever comments on his appearance and whether or not he's even human. While later on in the manga series, there are human characters like Yatsume Mumyoi who have a monstrous appearance but are at least given an explanation for why they look that way, no explanation is given for why Gekki resembles an orc or goblin.
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* TruerToTheText: The 2023 anime notably follows the manga storylines much more closely than the first anime, which included more filler and even drastically altered some original manga stories like Raijuta's arc. With that being said, the latest anime does occasionally veer off-course just a tiny bit by including additional scenes that weren't in the manga, such as showing Kanryu going to retrieve his gatling gun from a foreign trader or having Raijuta's Shinko Ryu followers AdaptedOut despite being in the manga and showing up in the 1996 anime.

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* TruerToTheText: The 2023 anime notably follows the manga storylines much more closely than the first anime, which included more filler and even drastically altered some original manga stories like Raijuta's arc. With that being said, the latest anime does occasionally veer off-course just a tiny bit by including additional scenes that weren't in the manga, such as showing Kanryu going to retrieve his gatling gun from a foreign trader or trader, having Raijuta's Shinko Ryu followers AdaptedOut despite being in the manga and showing up in the 1996 anime.anime, or giving Katsu an additional fight scene against Sanosuke that he didn't have in the source material.
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* AdaptationalSympathy:
** The 1996 anime gives this to Raijuta's four Shinko Ryu followers. In the manga, they were four minions without much depth whom Kenshin defeats. In the first anime, they're given more sympathetic reasons for joining Raijuta, stating that they're warriors who don't want to give up their way of life. One of them, Tsuruzaemon, even dies tragically in a DeathByAdaptation in a last stand against government soldiers and another, Tsukio, attempts suicide before being stopped by Kenshin and breaks down crying after realizing Raijuta's dream wouldn't be fulfilled.
** Meanwhile, the 2023 anime does this for Raijuta, with an additional scene that wasn't in the original story. After his defeat, Raijuta tries to [[spoiler: murder a grandma and her granddaughter praying to Buddhist statues in the forest but then realizes he can't go through with taking a human life. After that, Raijuta breaks down crying and the scene plays out in a non-fatal AlasPoorVillain manner]].
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* TruerToTheText: The 2023 anime notably follows the manga storylines much more closely than the first anime, which included more filler and even drastically altered some original manga stories like Raijuta's arc. With that being said, the latest anime does occasionally veer off-course just a tiny bit by including additional scenes that weren't in the manga, such as showing Kanryu going to retrieve his gatling gun from a foreign trader or having Raijuta's Shinko Ryu followers AdaptedOut despite being in the manga and showing up in the 1996 anime.
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* VictorStealsInsignia: Isurugi Raijuta brings up the tradition that he who challenges and defeats the master of a sword dojo can do whatever he wants with the dojo's sign: after defeating Maekawa Miyauchi, sensei of Chūetsu-ryū, he orders his protege Tsukayama Yutarō to take the dojo's sign down and burn it--enraging Kenshin, Kaoru, and Yahiko, who were visiting the dojo of Kaoru's family friend on that day.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the third season filler of the first anime, Aoshi Shinomori [[spoiler: gives up on fighting and dedicates his life to meditating peacefully, as opposed to the manga where he still remains a fighter but acts as an ally to Kenshin in the Jinchū Arc]].

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