Rurouni Kenshin: The Warrior that Won't Kill

Rurouni Kenshin is known as Samurai X in Latin America (or at least in Ecuador) and has garnered a respectable amount of fans eventhough Kenshin himself does not really fit the description of your average samurai. I have to confess I do not know much about what makes someone a samurai but Kenshin does not ever reers to himself as a samurai. He is a warrior who in the past was a perfect killing machine. 
That is the irony that Kenshin represents: he was trained to kill yet he loves peace and despises killing people. If he did in the past it was only to make sure his country and his people could enter an age of order and peace which apparently happened.
But peace and order are hard to gain and easy to lose. There are enemies constantly appearing, people who want go back to the previous system or just become the masters of the present one. Kenshin fights against these new enemies in his own way living in a peaceful village with new friends who are now his family and fighting when he has to but never killing. for that Kenshin has a powerful weapon: a sword that is not sharp and therefore cannot even kill. 
You can find the exploits of this character in Manga books, an ainme series, several OVAs and also a live-action film which has lots of action, a solid argument and the characterization is dependable with a story that remains true to the original concept. 
Why do we call it Samurai X in Latin America? Well, I very much wonder if that X in his left cheek has anything to do with it.

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