In Japanese, Kenshin has been voiced by Megumi Ogata for the drama CDs and Mayo Suzukaze for the animated adaptations. He was also based on the hitokiri Kawakami Gensai. As a result, he was given a virile appearance with long red hair as well as cross-shaped scar in his face. When creating Kenshin, Watsuki designed the androgynous and small Kenshin to be physical opposite of the bulky Hiko Seijūrō, a character that appears in his first one-shot manga, "Crescent Moon in the Warring States". Throughout the series, Kenshin begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people, including ex-enemies, while dealing with his fair share of enemies, new and old. In Tokyo, he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who invites him to live in her dojo, despite learning about Kenshin's past. Kenshin wanders the Japanese countryside offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the murders he once committed as an assassin. At the end of the Bakumatsu, he becomes a wandering swordsman, now wielding a sakabatō ( 逆刃刀, literally "reverse-blade sword")-a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly curved side of the sword, thus being nearly incapable of killing. Kenshin is a former legendary assassin known as " Hitokiri Battōsai" ( 人斬り抜刀斎), more properly named Himura Battōsai ( 緋村抜刀斎). Kenshin's story is set in a fictional version of Japan during the Meiji period. Himura Kenshin ( 緋村 剣心), known as Kenshin Himura in the English-language anime dubs, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga Rurouni Kenshin created by Nobuhiro Watsuki.
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