shonen anime rurouni kenshin became very popular in the united states after being featured on toonami alongside shows like gundam wing, dragon ball z, g gundam, ghost in the shell, cowboy bebop and other acclaimed anime. after its success an ova called samurai x explored the back story of himura kenshin and his deeds as the assasin battosai the manslayer or hitokiri battosai as he was known in the japanese dub. It also explores what eventually happened after the rurouni kenshin series including Yahiko becoming a master of kamiya kashin and searching out Kenshin's son Kenji who found master hiko to learn hiten mitsurugi ryu the way kenshin did.

