Himura Kenshin

Himura Kenshin is the titular "Rurouni" and main character of the series. He is formerly known as the Hitokiri Battousai, a deadly man-slayer whom slaughtered many men in the war before the Meiji era. Kenshin performs the deadly style of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, now an ancient study.With this dangerous sword style, he uses his reverse blade that can not cut nor kill anyone to restrain himself from killing anyone ever again, and relinquish the title of the Hitokiri Battousai that he carries. The Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu is a powerful style that is used to protect, but with Kenshin and his Sakabato, he does not harm anyone.


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Kamiya Kaoru

Kamiya Kaoru is a seventeen-year old dojo instructor and the first main character Kenshin meets. When he decides to give up wandering, he becomes a resident of the dojo. Kaoru is a teacher of the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryū style, a swords style used to protect people, and not harm others.


Since her father was killed in the war, responsibility for running the family doujo fell to young Kaoru. She is the one who first identifies Kenshin as Hitokiri Battosai and challenges him to a fight. Her pure heart and gentleness touch Kenshin and he accepts her offer to stay at the doujo.As the story progresses, their relationship continues to grow, and Kaoru seems to be harboring feelings for Kenshin. Feelings that she won't openly admit, however. And when she gets angry, Kenshin usually bears the brunt of her rage.


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Sagara Sanosuke

Set during a fictional version of Japan in the pre-Meiji period, Sanosuke is a former member of the Sekihotai. When the group is destroyed by the Meiji Government, he becomes a fighter-for-hire to calm his anger by fighting.

During his introduction in the series, he encounters the wanderer Himura Kenshin, who easily defeats him and is able to convince him to stop his mercenary work and instead start protecting people. After that encounter, Sanosuke becomes Kenshin's best friend as well as his partner in most of their fights.


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Myojin Yahiko

Myōjin Yahiko is a young boy and descendant of a samurai. When he was younger, both of his parents had died. The Yakuza took him in and made Myōjin do their dirty work, such as pick-pocketing to earn money and pay off the debt that Myōjin "owes."Once he meets up with Kenshin and Kaoru, he decides to stand up to the Yakuza.He is saved by Kenshin and decides that he would grow up to be just like his savior.But due to Kenshin's strong beliefs in not teaching anyone else the sword style he had obtained, he enlisted Yahiko to be trained by Kaoru at the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryū.

He joins Kaoru's dojo to become a stronger swordsman, though wanting to be taught with Kenshin's technique, he feels that Kaoru's Kamiya Kasshin-Ryū swords style is too weak.As the series progressess, Yahiko becomes skilled at the swordsmanship and comes to face many opponents.


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Others

The other main characters of the series are

Takani Megumi
Saito Hajime
Makimachi Misao
Hiko Seijuro
Shinomori Aoshi
Shishio Makoto