佐藤健
When creating Kenshin, Watsuki designed him to be the physical opposite of Hiko Seijūrō, a character that appears in his first one-shot manga, "Crescent Moon in the Warring States"; a character with the same name appears in "Rurouni Kenshin" as Kenshin's swordsmanship teacher. As a result, he was given a virile appearance with long red hair as well as cross-shaped scar in his face. He was also based on the "hitokiri" Kawakami Gensai. In Japanese, Kenshin has been voiced by Megumi Ogata for the drama CDs and Mayo Suzukaze for the animated adaptations. In the live-action films he was portrayed by Takeru Satoh. For the English dubs of the series, Richard Cansino voiced him in the first anime, J. Shanon Weaver replaced him for original video animation (OVA), and the duology film "New Kyoto Arc". Micah Solusod did the dub for the live-action film trilogy.