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Encounter in the Forest (Part II) is the seventy-third chapter of the Rurouni Kenshin manga.

Synopsis[]

The monk named Anji tells Sanosuke that he will kill him if Sanosuke doesn't master the technique in one week, so Sanosuke keeps trainig without rest for the whole week. The last night he has a vision of Sagara Sōzō, his leader from the Sekihōtai, and at the last moment he is able to overcome his weakness to master the technique called "Futae no Kiwami". Who really is this monk with such power? What was the reason why Sanosuke had the vision of his Sekihōtai leader?

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Chapter Notes[]

This chapter has several differences with other portrayals of the events of the story in different iterations of the franchise:

Differences with the 1996 anime[]

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Differences with the 2023 anime[]

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Trivia[]

  • There were a couple of references to real locations in Japan:
    • Nakasendō (中山道, Central Mountain Route), also called the "Kisokaidō" (木曾街道), was a real route of the era. It was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyōto in Japan. It had a total of 69 stations (staging-posts) between Edo and Kyōto.
    • Anji mentions the town of Shimosuwa. It was part of ancient Shinano Province, and was administered as part of the territories of Suwa Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. During the Edo period, Shimosuwa-shuku developed as the 29th station on the 59-station Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyōto.

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