What Kenshin stuff is there out there?
Well, there’s a LOT of stuff, but I’ll specifically focus on the manga and anime. The manga is only available in Japanese (they haven’t licensed it for the US yet), and you can probably pick it up at AnimeNation.com for a few bucks per volume (the complete series is 28 volumes). The anime has been licensed by two people: the TV series, which is based on the first eighteen volumes (and then it goes off on its own completely original–and, apparently, sucky–storyline), is being distributed by Media Blasters under the name “Rurouni Kenshin.” ADV has picked up and put out the home video version (OAV for you anime-term-knowledgable) and movie out under the title “Samurai X” (*shudder*) for the DVD and dub versions, and kept the “Rurouni Kenshin” title in the sub. Both are doing a good job in one way or another–MB’s TV series tries its best to stay as faithful as it can to the original Japanese version, even in the dub, and ADV…well, their master transfers are excellent, and they did a g
