Rurouni Kenshin OVA 1 - Act 1 - The Man of the Slashing Sword

In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon. Hiko kills the raiding bandits in hopes of saving as many lives as possible, but only manages to spare one life from the massacre. Hiko leaves the child, advising him to go to the nearby village and have them take care of him. A few days later, as Hiko comes back to check upon the child he saved, he is shocked to see the child had created graves, both for the slaves he befriended and the bandits who killed them. Seeing potential in the young one, Hiko takes the child under his wing, names him Kenshin, meaning "heart of sword," and teaches him about the art of swordsmanship under the Hiten Mitsuruugi Ryu.

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Film & Animation

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• Rurouno
• Kenshin
• OVA
• ep
• part

[Heuss85]

This is just incredible... The music, the characters, the action... I think it's great that they have only shown a little bit of Seijuro's strength, that makes him even more powerfull...

[lytle1990]

You choose somthing to live for and take pride in it, Even if you stray and become lost in your own way of thinking. In time you will come back too your roots and remeber the day you you took a vow to live for something. Kenshin lost his way at one point but he was always a protecter at heart and always will be

[Deathmetalist16]

2 Bandits watched this video.

[kissrasberr]

@DRAGONSsnares26 this is his past, how he became the kenshin legend.

[DRAGONSsnares26]

@DRAGONSsnares26 i know im talking to my self but this is that exact scene from rurouni kenshin. wait a minute i get it now this kenshin's past thats why i was so confused. if this is his past then it will be epic

[DRAGONSsnares26]

so did rurouni kenshin come off of this or did this come off of rurouni kenshin??????????

[Macbrother]

@ultimateanime45 He didn't come to save the village. Hiko Seijuro prefers to stay separated from the world. He was just passing by...

[ultimateanime45]

why didint that one Samurai come earlier to save that village???

[zethgb]

@ditto66 I also hope she is burried under a sake-soaked stone



[zethgb]

This intro is the best anime intro I have ever watched

[ditto66]

My girlfriend said this was boring...i'm single now =]