Rurouni Kenshin: Master of Flame

Template:Nihongo is a two-chapter Japanese manga written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It is a spin-off of the main series Rurouni Kenshin. It tells the story about how Shishio Makoto met Komagata Yumi and formed the Juppongatana.

The chapters were published in Shueisha's Jump Square in July and September 2014. Shueisha collected the chapters in a single Template:Transliteration volume. In North America, Viz Media published the chapters in their Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.

Publication

In January 2014, Nobuhiro Watsuki's novelist wife, Kaworu Kurosaki, revealed at her Otakon Vegas panel that Watsuki was preparing a spin-off manga centered on Rurouni Kenshin enemy characters. Kurosaki invited the panel's audience to suggest which characters should get the spotlight, and she would give the suggestions to Watsuki. In April 2014, it was reveled that the spin-off manga would be about Shishio Makoto, and it was later specified that it would be about how Shishio met Komagata Yumi and formed the Juppongatana. The manga was published in two parts in Shueisha's Jump Square; the first was published on July 4, 2014, and the second on September 4 of that same year. Shueisha collected the chapters in a single Template:Transliteration volume, under the Jump Comics SQ. imprint, on October 3, 2014; the volume also includes the story Template:Nihongo, written by Kaworu Kurosaki.

In North America, Viz Media published the chapters in English in their Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.