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Do you really believe that kenshin is just a simple manga or anime, don't you? ^^
In Japan, the Jump J Books published two novels.
N.B. click on the covers to enlarge them.
If you are really big fans of Kenshin you will not miss this novels, so I prefered not to complete the following summaries.^^
TITLE:
Rurouni Kenshin - The novel 1
AUTHOR: Nobuhiro Watsuki and Kaoru Shizuka
EDITOR: Jump J Books
ISBN: 4-08-703051-2
RELEASE : 10/04/1996
PAGES: 236 b/w
The novel is actually composed of two short stories: The Moon Up There and Sanosuke and the Nishiki-e.
The first story is dedicated to Kenshin, Kaoru and Yahiko. The protagonist is Daigoro Okuma, a young student of the famous teacher Katsu, that during a lunch at the Akabeko loses an important book of his teacher. It is the novel From the Earth to the Moon by J. Verne in original language, a rare book in Japan at the age we talk.
Following Tae's suggestion, the young boy, terrorized by the idea of being chased by his own teacher because of the loss, decides to ask help to Kenshin, that accepts to help him, despite the bad impression that the teacher Katsu has given both to Himura and to Yahiko.
They begin therefore the investigations, startung from the Akabeko. Immediately come to the light two facts: the book has been stolen and not lost, two sinister individuals, one wearing western clothes and the other armed with a sword, had been to the tavern really that day.
Meanwhile strange things happen in the city: the temple of Homejin of Kandamyojinshita seems to be infested by ghosts!
Kenshin decides to go to talk to Katsu, which had ordered to Daigoro to find the book within two days without, however, scatter around the voice of the disappearance, and it discovers that the teacher is not interested so much in finding the novel but in the recover of the cloth in which the book was in.
It's not, in fact, a common cloth, but a map for the secret treasure of the last shogun Tugokawa: Katsu, in fact, is helping the heir Yoshinobu Tokugawa to reach a position of relief in the government Meiji, while the Beniaoi want that money to finance a revolt and to reconstitute the Shogunate.
After Daigoro, Katsu also asks the intervention of Himura too to avoid the burst of the revolt. Even if not entirely convinced Kenshin accepts to help the teacher in the search the map...
The second story has as protagonists Sanosuke and its friend Tsunan, ex companion of the Sekihoutai.
This story is also present as a special episode in the manga (volume 6) and in the anime (episodes 23 and 24).
After a lunch at the Akabeko, Tae asks Sanosuke to go and buy her a Nishiki-e (picture) by the famous artist Tsunan Tsukioka.
At the stand Sano also finds another picture that represents the commander of the Sekihoutai Souzou Sagara. Behind him, two little boys.... the small Sanosuke and Katsuhiro Tsukioka.
So, we discover that Tsunan and Katsuhiro are actually the same person, and after ten years Sanosuke finds again his friend of infancy.
After having remembered the old times with the commander Sagara, Tsunan reveals to Sanosuke that has in mind a plan to take revenge of the government that has declared the Sekihoutai an army of traitors. Sano decides to help his friend in his project and one evening they decide to penetrate in the building of the Meiji government, but they find Kenshin waiting for them...
TITLE:
Rurouni Kenshin - The novel 2
AUTHOR: Nobuhiro Watsuki and Kaoru Shizuka
EDITOR: Jump J Books
ISBN: 4-08-703063-6
RELEASE : 10/03/1997
PAGES: 244 b/w
The novel is actually composed of two short stories, both alredy published in the manga: Yahiko's Fight and Black Hat.
In the first story, Yaahiko in order to protect the young Tsubame, has to face a group of dangerous outloaws. At first he is defeated, but his samurai pride doesn't allow him to give up. So he faces those men again, ending up with a strategy who allow him to turn their advantage of being more numerous into the cause of their defeat.
The second episode, the protagonists are Udou Jinne, a former Shinsengumi, and Kenshin. In order to force Himura to fight against him, Jinne kidnappes Kaoru and using Nikaido, a sort of hypnotic technique, he puts her in a condition of being incapable of breathing. This awakes Kenshin's fury, and the two samurai will have to fight a death match.
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Do you really believe that kenshin is just a simple manga or anime, don't you? ^^
In Japan, the Jump J Books published two novels.
N.B. click on the covers to enlarge them.
If you are really big fans of Kenshin you will not miss this novels, so I prefered not to complete the following summaries.^^
;)
TITLE:
Rurouni Kenshin - The novel 1AUTHOR: Nobuhiro Watsuki and Kaoru Shizuka
EDITOR: Jump J Books
ISBN: 4-08-703051-2
RELEASE : 10/04/1996
PAGES: 236 b/w
The novel is actually composed of two short stories: The Moon Up There and Sanosuke and the Nishiki-e.
The first story is dedicated to Kenshin, Kaoru and Yahiko. The protagonist is Daigoro Okuma, a young student of the famous teacher Katsu, that during a lunch at the Akabeko loses an important book of his teacher. It is the novel From the Earth to the Moon by J. Verne in original language, a rare book in Japan at the age we talk.
Following Tae's suggestion, the young boy, terrorized by the idea of being chased by his own teacher because of the loss, decides to ask help to Kenshin, that accepts to help him, despite the bad impression that the teacher Katsu has given both to Himura and to Yahiko.
They begin therefore the investigations, startung from the Akabeko. Immediately come to the light two facts: the book has been stolen and not lost, two sinister individuals, one wearing western clothes and the other armed with a sword, had been to the tavern really that day.
Meanwhile strange things happen in the city: the temple of Homejin of Kandamyojinshita seems to be infested by ghosts!
Kenshin decides to go to talk to Katsu, which had ordered to Daigoro to find the book within two days without, however, scatter around the voice of the disappearance, and it discovers that the teacher is not interested so much in finding the novel but in the recover of the cloth in which the book was in.
It's not, in fact, a common cloth, but a map for the secret treasure of the last shogun Tugokawa: Katsu, in fact, is helping the heir Yoshinobu Tokugawa to reach a position of relief in the government Meiji, while the Beniaoi want that money to finance a revolt and to reconstitute the Shogunate.
After Daigoro, Katsu also asks the intervention of Himura too to avoid the burst of the revolt. Even if not entirely convinced Kenshin accepts to help the teacher in the search the map...
The second story has as protagonists Sanosuke and its friend Tsunan, ex companion of the Sekihoutai.
This story is also present as a special episode in the manga (volume 6) and in the anime (episodes 23 and 24).
After a lunch at the Akabeko, Tae asks Sanosuke to go and buy her a Nishiki-e (picture) by the famous artist Tsunan Tsukioka.
At the stand Sano also finds another picture that represents the commander of the Sekihoutai Souzou Sagara. Behind him, two little boys.... the small Sanosuke and Katsuhiro Tsukioka.
So, we discover that Tsunan and Katsuhiro are actually the same person, and after ten years Sanosuke finds again his friend of infancy.
After having remembered the old times with the commander Sagara, Tsunan reveals to Sanosuke that has in mind a plan to take revenge of the government that has declared the Sekihoutai an army of traitors. Sano decides to help his friend in his project and one evening they decide to penetrate in the building of the Meiji government, but they find Kenshin waiting for them...
;)
TITLE:
Rurouni Kenshin - The novel 2AUTHOR: Nobuhiro Watsuki and Kaoru Shizuka
EDITOR: Jump J Books
ISBN: 4-08-703063-6
RELEASE : 10/03/1997
PAGES: 244 b/w
The novel is actually composed of two short stories, both alredy published in the manga: Yahiko's Fight and Black Hat.
In the first story, Yaahiko in order to protect the young Tsubame, has to face a group of dangerous outloaws. At first he is defeated, but his samurai pride doesn't allow him to give up. So he faces those men again, ending up with a strategy who allow him to turn their advantage of being more numerous into the cause of their defeat.
The second episode, the protagonists are Udou Jinne, a former Shinsengumi, and Kenshin. In order to force Himura to fight against him, Jinne kidnappes Kaoru and using Nikaido, a sort of hypnotic technique, he puts her in a condition of being incapable of breathing. This awakes Kenshin's fury, and the two samurai will have to fight a death match.
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