The November issue of Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine is announcing a new Rurouni Kenshin spinoff manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki and his wife Kaoru Kurosaki on Tuesday titled “Rurouni Kenshin Ibun: Ashitarō Zenka Ari” (Rurouni Kenshin Variant Story: The Criminal Ashitarō).
Watsuki previously published a Rurouni Kenshin spinoff manga in 2014 titled “Honō wo Suberu -Rurouni Kenshin: Uramaku-” (Controlling Flame -Rurouni Kenshin: Hidden Chapter-) that focused on how Shishio Makoto and Yumi Komagata met.
Watsuki first launched his Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994.
The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence.