Himura Kenshin

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Himura Kenshin (緋村 剣心, Himura Kenshin?) is the eponymous title character and primary protagonist in the anime and manga series Rurouni Kenshin, also known as Samurai X. He's known as Kenshin Himura in Western-order and is the chosen order for the English anime. In the Sony dub version of Rurouni Kenshin, his name is pronounced "Kenshi" rather than "Kenshin".

His Japanese seiyū is Mayo Suzukaze and his English voice actors are Richard Cansino (TV) and J. Shanon Weaver (OVA). In the early drama CD version, Kenshin's voiced by Megumi Ogata. His Spanish voice actor is Alexander Páez (Latin America).

In all Rurouni Kenshin stories, Kenshin was born on June 20, 1849. He was loosely based on real-life hitokiri, Kawakami Gensai.

Kenshin was a former manslayer of the Ishin Shishi, the Choshu faction, who fought at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. He went by the name "Hitokiri Battōsai" (spelled with a macron in the Viz manga, and spelled as "Hitokiri Battousai" in the English anime releases). The title implies he has mastered the technique of Battōjutsu (sword drawing technique, studied in modern times as Iaijutsu) and can draw his sword with lightning speed. Hitokiri was the title given to samurai assassins ("man slayers" in the English anime).

After the Revolution, he picked up a reverse-blade sword, sakabato, given to him by a master swordsmith and assumed the life of a "rurouni" (this word was created by Watsuki as a fusion of the words "Ronin" (masterless samurai) and "wanderer"). Kenshin becomes a technical master of the Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryū swordstyle after completing his previously abandoned training with his master, but declines the official mastership and title of "Hiko Seijūrō" (given to each disciple who masters Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu swordsmanship along with a traditional cape that is passed down to each "Hiko Seijūrō").

Kenshin is known to switch between an easy going drifter and a serious Battōsai.