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Yesterday, a page on Shueisha's Jump Square website announced that there would a Chapter 0 to Nobuhiro Watsuki's Ruroni Kenshi manga. The website indicates that the new chapter will be published in the Weekly Shonen Jump sometime in August. The timing comes as no surprise considering that Warner Brother's live action Ruroni Kenshin film opens in theaters on August 25.

Source: MangaNews

Warner Brothers Japan began streaming a teaser trailer for the live action adaptation of the wildly popular Rurouni Kenshin manga. The film based on the manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki is being directed by Keishi Otomo and starts 22 year old Takeru Satoh as the Legendary Battosai. The film is expected to hit Japanese theaters August 25, 2011.

Check out the trailer after the jump. Be warned though live-action adaptation is live. So don't get your hopes too far up just yet.

As the title suggests, Rurouni Kenshin, a very popular and great old-school anime, is receiving a two-episode OVA with the first episode being shown at theaters in December. Titled 新京都編 / "Shin Kyoto Hen", or New Kyoto Chapter, it will be a remake of the Kyoto Arc with the battle against Shishio, although this time the story will be told from Misao's point of view.

For those who are unfamiliar with Rurouni Kenshin, the story takes place during the Meiji era and it revolves around Himura Kenshin, a rurouni (wanderer) carrying dark secrets in his past. He meets and teams up with various other people during his travels, each with their own issues, and faces the past that he once tried to escape from.

Cast / Staff Data below, taken from Natalie:

Main Staff

• Original: Nobuhiro Watsuki
• Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
• Script: Mari Okada
• Character Design: Hiromitsu Hagiwara
• Producer: Hiro Kaburagi
• Music: Noriyuki Asakura
• Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Staff Cast

• Kenshin Himura: Mayo Suzukaze
• Kaoru Kamiya: Miki Fujitani
• Yahiko Myoujin: Miina Tominaka
• Sanosuke Sagara: Yuuji Ueda
• Misao Makimachi: Tomo Sakurai
• Aoshi Shinomori: Yoshito Yasuhara
• Makoto Shishio: Masanori Ikeda
• Hajime Saito: Ken Narita

The character voices are mostly identical, save for Hajime Saito's voice actor. Key Animation Illustration shown at the top.

Sources: [Natalie]

This year is the 15th anniversary of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal OVA. The OVA which is the prequel to the the hit anime, Rurouni Kenshin comprises of 4 parts and tells the story of how Kenshin goes from a normal orphan to the legendary manslayer.

As part of the marketing campaign surrounding the OVA's Bluray premiere, NicoNico will be simulcasting the OVA in both Japan, Canada & the United States. You can stream the OVA on Friday, August 19th starting at 1 AM EST for those of you on the East Coast or 10 PM PDT for our West Coast readers.

Aniplex USA also announced that the day after, Sat. August 20, the New People Theater in San Francisco will be screening the OVA as well.

Jump Square magazine will be announcing in their Thursday issue that Rurouni Kenshin has a new anime project in the works. Rurouni Kenshin started out as a popular manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki which ran in the Weekly Shounen Jump. The 15th anniversary of the series inspired the hit anime adaptation.

More details will be provided in future issues of Jump Square. Personally I can't wait to see the Legendary Battousai kicking butt. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

via [ANN]