Rurouni | Kenshin Part 1

Rurouni Kenshin: Part 1 is not a perfect film. The pacing drags slightly in the middle, and the villain Kanryū is a bit too cartoonishly evil for the otherwise grounded tone. But it gets the one thing right that no other adaptation has managed:

They needn’t have worried.

Hitokiri No More: Why the 2012 ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ is Still the Gold Standard for Manga Adaptations rurouni kenshin part 1