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Originally Posted by husyk
I saw the movie Samurai X, thought it was good. But how's the series, is that any good? I noticed on one site that there's 95 epsiodes of it, is that correct?
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The anime "Rurouni Kenshin" is based on a best-seller manga that was on Jump Comics several years back. It was done by a young upstart manga artist - Watsuki Nobuhiro.
While I personally did not like Kenshin's voice in the anime, I still watched it as it was a very popular series over here in Japan. Aside from my personal objections to Kenshin's voice (the Ruro-ken drama CD featuring Ogata Megumi was much better), the animation was of very high quality as it was one of the first projects done by SME.
There are several Ruro-ken animes (I have no idea how it is released in your country):
TV Series Box Set 1: includes Volumes 1-8, Episodes 1-27, "Tokyo Chapter"
TV Series Box Set 2: includes Volumes 9-19, Episodes 28-66, "Kyoto Chapter"
TV Series Box Set 3: includes Volumes 20-26, Episodes 67-94 "TV Original Stories Chapter" + "unaired cuts selection DVD"
OVA "Tsuioku-hen": 4 volumes, Kenshin's story with Tomoe and the bakumatsu era
Movie "Ishinshishi e no Chinkonka"
OVA: "Seisou-hen": 2 volumes, end of Rurouni Kenshin, sad story.