
Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen)
In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon....

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...
The opening is more atmosphere than hook.
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