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NEWS: New Rurouni Kenshin TV Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, 2023 Premiere on Noitamina

That trailer looks absolutely beautiful. That said, I don't much see the point of "re-adapting" the manga from the start when this has already been done...a lot. The Kyoto Arc has already been adapted to anime twice, in live action once, and of course there's the original manga; do we really need a fifth version of this story?

Aside from filler, the original anime still holds up remarkably well, better than most shows of its era. Seems like it would make more sense to just adapt the last third of the manga, which has never been animated, than redo the old stuff yet again.

What gets me is not only do we have Watsuki in this, the character designer is Terumi Nishii who has really gone off the deep end. Oh, and the actual production studio is the same one who did Berserk 2016 with a director whose work is absolutely middling. This thing is gonna be a MESS.

In Index's case even, the author himself outright said in an interview that the decision to cram 10 volumes into 2 cours was a decision on the production side. Pretty telling.

Yo I’m a little more than fuckin worried people are now saying they’re sick of hearing about Watsuki’s crimes and that he “paid a while ago.”

There’s a whole lot wrong with that sentiment. It can be tiring to always see the topic raised, sure, but it’s an unforgettable and unforgivable crime. It’s like if someone killed somebody, served their time to get off on a technicality, became successful, and when people bring up the fact he killed someone, it was “in the past.”

Just no.

For anyone who's so pressed about the author because of doing something stupid
Nobody is perfect in the end and you're not helping and does more bad than good and thinking being a rebel will solve anything

Also is it hard to separate the source material from its author unless you were kid which is a different matter.

For anyone who's so pressed about the author because of doing something stupid

Not easy when they're still alive and still get royalties. Separating the art from the artist is meant for critiquing. Until he dies from old age in about 40 years (he's 52), whenever you buy something Rurouni Kenshin-related brand new or watch the legal streams for the anime or live-action movies, he still make a profit. People aren't exactly comfortable with supporting someone that was caught with so much CP they thought he had intent to distribute it, and then after getting caught went on about his preferences.

I understand and it's fine to not support the author (by buying volumes ,merchandise etc) if you don't want it and in the end I can't support him but he doesn't need my support anyway.

From Wikipedia:

Shōnen manga (少年漫画, transl. "boys' comics", also romanized as shonen, shounen or syônen) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys

Rurouni Kenshin is a shonen.

Separating the art from the artist is meant for critiquing.

Whenever the show drops I fully expect there to be a segment of people calling out distributors for even streaming it, most of which will not have had a word to say about genuinely objectionable material. And to a point I understand why, but the irony is incredibly bitter to swallow.

Look, just somehow, anyhow try, and forgive the guy, even if he didn't pay enough for the possession of CP, even if he himself doesn't feel sorry (who knows, maybe he does, but I frankly doubt it), because he didn't wronged YOU, and more than anything else, because you all are just poisoning yourselves with grudge that doesn't even belong to you.