Originally Posted by Dawg 2005
Oh, I see. I haven't seen it in a while. How many episodes is the anime?
I don't mind spoilers; I don't think I'm going to be getting them for some time yet.
Thanks for the link.
The anime was 95 episodes.
The manga ending...first you have to understand Kenshin's past, which is what the final arc deals with. Kenshin when he was still Battosai, fell in love with the wife of a man he killed. She eventually fell in love with him as well and they get married. Before he killed her husband, he managed to give kenshin a scar on his cheek, the first half of his cross scar. Then after a while, some stuff happens and Kenshin ends up having to fight someone he can't really beat, Kenshin's wife tried to stop the fight, so she ran in the middle of Kenshin and the other guy fighting. Kenshin was about to slash the guy, but his wife ran in the middle and he ended up killing both of them. So now before she dies, he's holding her in his lap, she picks up his sword and gives him the other half of his scar. Her brother saw all this, he was ten and thinks Kenshin killed her on purpose. This part was animated in the OVAs though,
this more or less shows all of that. So this sets up the final arc, Enshi, the brother of Tomoe, Kenshin's wife, comes back along with other people Kenshin hurt as the Battosai. So this last arc deals with Kenshin having to face his past and wonder how he can forgive himself if others won't forgive him for what he did. In the end, Kenshin beats them, he and Kaoru have a boy named Kenji and later on when Yahiko grows up, Kenji becomes his student.