Third Season of New 'Rurouni Kenshin' TV Anime Announced

by Nioxys
Mar 22, 10:08 AM | 8 Comments

The Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran (Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance) special stage at AnimeJapan 2025 announced a third season on Saturday, revealing an announcement promo.

Produced by LIDENFILMS, the 24-episode first season premiered on the Fuji TV's noitaminA programming block in Summer 2023. The second season began airing on October 9. Crunchyroll simulcast the seasons with subtitles and subsequently began streaming an English dub.

The television anime adapts Nobuhiro Watsuki's historical drama manga, which ran in Weekly Shounen Jump from 1994 to 1999. Watsuki and his wife Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Hokkaido-hen (Hokkaido Arc) sequel manga in Jump SQ. in November 2016. Shueisha published the ninth volume in November 2023.

The original anime series by Studio Deen and Gallop aired in 94 episodes from 1996 to 1998. Aniplex released a four-episode OVA the following year that served as a prequel to the television anime, followed by a two-episode sequel OVA in 2002.

Announcement

Official site: https://rurouni-kenshin.com/
Official X: @ruroken_anime

Source: Comic Natalie

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan 3rd Season on MAL

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I'm glad they're not rushing through this adaption, 100+ chapters would have been too much for one season.

Mar 31, 11:02 AM by malvarez1

Saved up S2 to binge it someday and knowing that there's more to come is always a great feeling!

Mar 22, 11:28 PM by _MushiRock11_

@wildhood I just find it a little hard to believe that it would take them 2 cours to fight Shishio and his minions after all this.

Mar 22, 2:13 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Yes. The second season was more of the second arc, and the third season will be the rest of the second arc and will probably start adapting the third arc halfway through the third season.

Mar 22, 2:09 PM by wildhood

@wildhood So, at the moment we have a formal adaptation of two arcs in three seasons at the expense of one in the first and the second in the next two?

Mar 22, 2:05 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert 1 arc, and the first few chapters of the second arc.

Mar 22, 2:03 PM by wildhood

@wildhood I'm sorry, but how many arcs were adapted in the first season of the new anime?

Mar 22, 11:02 AM by RobertBobert

No date yet of when this will air? Most likely sometime in 2026. Assuming this will be 2 cours, this should adapt the rest of the Kyoto arc, and probably the first few episodes of the Jinchu arc (finally). It's safe to say that this will be a complete adaptation eventually, and that a season 4 will definitely happen.

Mar 22, 10:31 AM by wildhood

Related Database Entries

Anime:	Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan 3rd Season
Manga:	Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan