| | |  | SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED | Home » » » » Rurouni Kenshin, Vol. 17: The Age Decides the Man | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Packed with action, romance and historical intrigue, Rurouni Kenshin is one of the most beloved and popular manga series worldwide. Set against the backdrop of the Meiji Restoration, it tells the saga of Himura Kenshin, once an assassin of ferocious power, now a humble rurouni, a wandering swordsman fighting to protect the honor of those in need. A hundred and fifty years ago in Kyoto, amid the flames of revolution, there arose a warrior, an assassin of such ferocious power he was given the title Hitokiri: Manslayer. With his bloodstained blade, Hitokiri Battosai helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu period and end the reign of the shoguns, slashing open the way toward the progressive Meiji Era. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years became legend. In the 11th year of Meiji, in the middle of Tokyo, the tale begins. Himura Kenshin, a humble rurouni, or wandering swordsman, comes to the aid of Kamiya Kaoru, a young woman struggling to defend her father's school of swordsmanship against attacks by the infamous Hitokiri Battosai. But neither Kenshin nor Battosai are quite what they seem... | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Nobuhiro Watsuki | | Paperback:
| 196 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| August 03, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1591168767 | | Product Length:
| 7.82 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.3 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.69 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.43 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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Very good mangaOct 29, 2009
By Zhongyuan Huang
"Socrato"
Remind me of the first time wathching this series' anime 7 years ago... A very touching and exciting story.
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RuroKen 17Sep 11, 2005
By J. Patterson
"symphony"
In Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 17 the Shishio Arc concludes. The final battle between Shishio Makato and Himura Kenshin is epic, and action packed thoughout. Each side seems victorius at different points and the reader encounters plot twist after plot twist. Watsuki ends the volume in a way that compleatly answers all questions the Shishio arc has left. I hope the final story arc (Jinchu(revenge)/Eneshi) is equally good.
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Great as alwaysAug 31, 2005
By Hagaren Otaku
Lately, I've been quickly flipping through the books, as a lot of them were fights that were very very long. This book, however, begins to wrap up the current arc, and isn't as fightfightfight! as some of the others, which is why I really liked this one.
I've got one question however, and maybe I'm just being stupid or something, but...
Isn't Kawatari(spelling)/"Scythe Man" a guy that looks like a girl? Because he/she flashed Misao back a couple books ago, and it definately sounded like Kawatari was a guy. In this book though, Cho talks about him/her like Kawatari's a girl. He says that "She needs..." and the whatnot. Maybe he just doesn't know or something, but from Misao's attitude, it seems like she would say something about scythe MAN rather than the other gender.
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