"Rurouni Kenshin" Shakku Arai will be played by Kazuya Nakai, who entrusts Kenshin with a reverse-blade sword. "His clumsy way of life is fascinating"

It has been revealed that voice actor Kazuya Nakai will be playing Shakku Arai in the second season of the new TV anime "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story," based on the popular manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki. Arai Sora appeared in a flashback scene of Himura Kenshin in episode 33, "Forbidden Drawing of the Sword," broadcast on November 28, where he handed over a reverse-blade sword to Kenshin, who was operating in secret as the assassin Battousai. Nakai said, "Although Sora only appears in flashbacks, the words he left for Kenshin were filled with many layers of meaning, and it was a very impressive scene. What thoughts did he keep hidden while making tools to kill people during the turmoil of the late Edo period? In a way, his clumsy way of life is fascinating. I hope that readers will be able to find his true feelings in his blunt way of speaking." "Rurouni Kenshin" is a popular manga that was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha) from 1994 to 1999. The story follows Himura Kenshin, who was feared as a Battousai assassin during the late Edo period, as he seeks to live in a new era after the Meiji Restoration as a wanderer who has sworn not to kill again. A new chapter, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story - Hokkaido Arc, has been serialized in the monthly manga magazine Jump SQ. (Square) since 2017. The new anime will be fully supervised by the original author Watsuki, from character design to scenario, and will reconstruct the original work from the first episode onwards. The first season aired from July to December 2023. The second season is currently airing on Fuji TV's late-night anime slot Noitamina and elsewhere.