New Rurouni Kenshin Anime Screens Premiere at Shaw Theaters Lido in Singapore on June 25

Odex announced on Friday that it will host the premiere screening event for the new television anime project based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga in Singapore at Shaw Theaters Lido on June 25.

Theatergoers will recieve merchandise, including acrylic stands, T-shirts, a signature card, tin badges, an A2 Poster, and a shikishi.

The anime will premiere in Japan on July 6 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.

In addition to Singapore, the anime will also have premiere screenings in Japan, the United States, France, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and South Korea.

The anime will re-adapt the main manga series.

Sōma Saitō stars in the series as Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi costars as Kaoru Kamiya. Taku Yashiro plays Sanosuke Sagara, and Makoto Koichi voices Yahiko Myojin. Yūma Uchida voices Shinomori Aoshi, and Saori Ōnishi voices Takani Megumi.

Hideyo Yamamoto (Strike the Blood, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Cells at Work! Code Black) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Terumi Nishii is designing the characters, and Hideyuki Kurata is in charge of the series scripts. Yū Takami is composing the music.

Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 following Watsuki being charged for possession of child pornography. The series later resumed publication in June 2018.

Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence.

The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode TV anime series, an anime film, three original video anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.

Source: Odex's Facebook page