Anime Characters: MY HERO!!

Hey, first do u like that picture? what do u think of that man?? First i'll give you a brief introduction about him. His name is Kenshin Himura in Westren-Order. He is from Japan. Born in June 20 1849 (guess u figured that out, right? long intro but you have to take it to know what i'm talkin' about). Himura Kenshin, his birth name was Shinta. His peasent parentes died of cholera by the age of seven. However, he was sold as a slave but the slave-traders' carvan was attacked by bandis & killed all the men first. He wanted to fight but 3 girls stoped him & shielded him with thier bodies. The bandits killed them as they protected him. Hiko Seijūrō XIII intervened, killing all the thieves as they were about to kill Shinta. Hiko then leaves Shinta alone in the field of bodies, instructing him to seek shelter in a nearby village. A week later, Hiko returns to the village to check up on the boy, but is surprised to hear that he never arrived. Presuming that he has committed suicide, Hiko returns to the site of the slaughter, to find that Shinta has buried all the corpses by hand - even those of the thieves. Won over by the boy's strength at heart, he adopts Shinta into his Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu apprenticeship. He renamed him "Kenshin" (Ken=sword, Shin=heart), since he believed that 'Shinta' wasn't a fitting name for a swordsman.

That was his early life. After that he was a former manslayer of the Ishin Shishi, the Choshu faction, who fought at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. He went by the name "Hitokiri Battousai" The title implies he has mastered the technique of Battojutsu (sword drawing technique, studied in modern times as Iaijutsu). After the Revolution, he picked up a reverse-blade sword,given to him by a master swordsmith and assumed the life of a "Rurouni" a wanderer. This were the series starts!

So how do u like it till now? he just a man with past full of sorrow & regret (like killing the one he loves, his wife!!, selling his soul & mastery to the side he thought it was the good one). These kind of accidents can kill a whole army not just one man!. But he carried on & devote his life to help people, and he realised that war is just a stupid act. Sword-mastrey is the art of killing. No one would like to learn it (nowdays it's shooting, fire-arms... etc).

But if we take a closer look on his personality. We will find that he is just a big child, so pure n inocent. So caring he don't even want to kill his enimies unless that's thier choice and ther is no other way but that... even though he uses a reversed blade (the cuting edge is from his side, the blunt side is out!) so in every fight he risks his own life to spare his opponent!

Refrence: Wikipedia. "Himura Kenshin" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himura_Kenshin. 19 October 2007, 11:11 PM