# Where to Watch Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance

**Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance streams on Crunchyroll, the only legal home for the remake. This is the Kyoto arc, widely considered the heart of the entire series, where Kenshin's quiet new life is shattered by a phantom of the age of revolution and the wandering swordsman is pulled back toward the bloodshed he swore to leave behind.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G0XHWM1NK/rurouni-kenshin)

Crunchyroll is the exclusive streaming home for this Rurouni Kenshin remake, and it hosts the preceding season too, so you can watch the setup and the Kyoto arc back to back on one service.

## Synopsis

Himura Kenshin was once the era's most feared assassin. Now he carries a reverse-edged blade and a vow never to kill again, living peacefully among the friends he has found. That peace ends when word arrives of a scarred, ruthless figure risen from the ashes of the revolution, a man amassing his own power in Kyoto with designs on the new government. To protect everything he has built, Kenshin sets out for the old capital, knowing it may cost him the gentle life he fought so hard to keep. It's the arc where the series' themes of atonement and violence come to a head, backed by some of its sharpest swordplay.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 23
- **Premiered:** 2024
- **Studio:** liden films inc., lidenfilms
- **Score:** 7.7

## Watch Order

This is the second season of the remake and the direct continuation of the first, so watch that opening season before you start here. It introduces Kenshin, his vow, and the friends whose safety drives this arc. Kyoto Disturbance assumes you already know them, then raises the stakes on everything.

- [Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023)](https://hozuna.com/anime/rurouni-kenshin) — prequel
- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan 3rd Season — sequel

## If You Liked This

- **[Dororo](https://hozuna.com/anime/dororo)** — Dororo is another feudal-era journey of a sword-wielding wanderer reclaiming his humanity, trading Kenshin's atonement for a son's quest to become whole.
- **[Samurai Champloo](https://hozuna.com/anime/samurai-champloo)** — Samurai Champloo offers the same Edo-flavored swordplay with a looser, cooler swagger, following three drifters whose blades do most of the talking.
- **[Sword of the Stranger](https://hozuna.com/anime/sword-of-the-stranger)** — Sword of the Stranger is a must if you're here for the fights, a standalone film with some of the most beautifully choreographed samurai duels ever animated.
- **[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End](https://hozuna.com/anime/frieren-beyond-journey-s-end)** — 
- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
- **[Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc](https://hozuna.com/anime/chainsaw-man-reze-arc)** — 
- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
- **[Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/attack-on-titan-season-3-part-2)** — 

## FAQ

### Where can I watch Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance?

It streams exclusively on Crunchyroll.

### How many episodes are in Kyoto Disturbance?

This season runs 23 episodes.

### Should I watch the first season of the remake first?

Yes. Kyoto Disturbance is the second season and picks up directly from the first, so start there to meet Kenshin and understand his vow before this arc raises the stakes.

### What is the Kyoto arc about?

Without spoilers: a powerful figure from Japan's turbulent past resurfaces in Kyoto with ambitions against the new order, and Kenshin travels there to stop him, testing his pledge never to kill.