Rurouni Kenshin Season 3 Announced
The new Rurouni Kenshin anime is getting a third season, as announced at today's AnimeJapan 2025 stage. Soma Saito, Rie Takahashi, Taku Yashiro, Yuma Uchida, Satoshi Hino, and Makoto Furukawa presented the information while discussing the previous Kyoto Disturbance anime's highlights.
The information on the anime sequel was accidentally shared on the anime's official website a few days ago, but has since been deleted.
The Rurouni Kenshin reboot anime began in the Summer 2023 anime season and ran for 24 episodes. It was followed by a sequel, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance which began in Fall of 2024 and is still airing. LIDEN FILMS is animating.
Nobuhiro Watsuki wrote the original Rurouni Kenshin manga, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999. Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc started serialization in 2017 as the direct sequel, though it briefly went on hiatus (February-June 2018) after Watsuki was charged with possession of child pornography.
Gallop and Studio DEEN animated the original adaptation, which aired from 1996 to 1999. The franchise also has several manga side-stories and OVAs, as well as a movie and a live-action adaptation which has 5 movies. The first one came out in 2012, while the latest premiered in 2021.
Viz Media licensed the manga in English, and describes the story as:
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.
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.
Source: AnimeJapan 2025
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