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Jinchuu (Revenge) arc

Manga Volumes: 18-28
Anime Episodes: None. Prequel was animated as OVA 1-4 (covers the chapters of Kenshin's days during the revolution)

The Jinchuu (Revenge) Arc covers Enishi's return to Tokyo to extract revenge on Kenshin for the death of his sister Tomoe . It also covers the Kenshin's days during the revolution, sort of a prequel to the Rurouni Kenshin storyline. The good news is the prequel part of the arc was animated via the first 4 OVA episodes. The bad news is the rest of the arc was never animated as Nobuhiro Watsuki was still working on completing this arc when the Kyoto arc animation was finished. During this time Sony created filler episodes (63-95) as Watsuki was finishing the revenge arc. Unfortunately ratings for the show plummeted in Japan and it was eventually pulled off the air and canceled.

There were lots of sites dedicated to translating this arc and posting Manga scans of them online, but since the recent announcement of the Manga being licensed, most of that stuff has been pulled offline. Until Shonen Jump or VIZ releases the Manga here in the states, the only way to read this arc is to download Manga translations from maigo-chan's Ruroken Translations and to purchase volumes 18-28 of the Japanese Manga (I have seen them listed at the Sasuga Japanese Bookstore website, but they may not have them all in stock). I advise you to NOT SPOIL THIS SAGA FOR YOURSELF; it is the most jaw dropping and compelling saga out of all three of them. If you have no access to a Japanese bookstore, please do your best to avoid reading about the Revenge arc and wait for VIZ to release them. Trust me, you wont regret it. For now you can pick up the OVA DVDs (volume 1 is named: trust, volume 2 is named betrayal, or you can get the directors cut named trust and betrayal).

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