Manga in Japan not only performs the function of entertainment, rather, it is not so much as function, call it so, upbringing and education. And Kenshin — it is not fighting and screaming, it's not rubilovka and ninjas, it's not Japanese swords and other branchy cranberry, and a very serious story about a human duty and destiny, sin and redemption. And inscribed (and very carefully!) In the historical reality of post-revolutionary Japan. Author manga, Watsuki Nobuhiro, has built into its story many real people, known in Japan about the same as ours — those who overthrew the monarchy in the 17th year. And in a sense, this was intended to arouse interest in its own history and the people who made the first step of the country to prosperity. And the hero of this manga — Kenshin — not drunk with the blood of the samurai, but just the opposite — the man who gave his youth to those who believed the fighters for a just cause, then making sure that his pure intentions — to help and protect the weak — turned into what he was weapon in the hands of those in power. Became hitokiri. Saw the light, the person gives an oath never to kill, and to atone for the affairs of life taken away. And to wander off, forbidding yourself to have a house, family, friends, barring a happy and loving. But the fate of experiencing (or reward it), giving it what he did not even dare to dream. And after sending a test that — who knows — he may not survive. Life or principle? Humanism, or self-preservation? Is it possible to survive and stay with a man?
And it is this manga. As a person looking for the answer — you can if you want to live after the offense? Does it have a right to happiness? For good reason in the manga he does not just completely «broke» him, he even speaks of himself in third person, without using «I'm proud» — or rather, taking advantage of, but very rarely, when it is absolutely unbearable.