Isurugi Raijuta he is dissatisfied with the current state of swordsmanship in Japan and plans to revive the old style of swordsmanship (satsujin-ken, “swords that bring death” or “murderous sword technique”) with the Shinko-ryu by traveling around Japan and shutting down shinai dojos by force, gathering the strongest swordsmen he has met along the way. He first appears in Rurouni Kenshin #35.
His Shinko-ryu is not a formal sword school but a league of swordsmen. He uses the Tsukayama family’s money to fund his campaign.
In the manga, Kenshin figures out that despite all his talk of the killing sword, Raijuta has never killed anyone himself and is in fact a total fraud.
In the story Kenshin knocks him down with a battojutsu technique from outside Raijuta’s zone (shortly after he stated he could not be struck).
In the manga, after the battle, Raijuta picks up Yahiko and threatens to kill him. Yahiko tells Raijuta to kill him; when Raijuta is finally confronted with the choice of killing Yahiko, he cannot because Kenshin explains what the killing sword truly entails. This, in effect, destroys his confidence as a swordsman, and as a result he is never able to pick up a sword again.
In the anime however; Raijuta is far more brutal. Willing to and having killed underlings. He stood his ground against gun wielding soldiers and killed several of them using his signature technique.
Skills and Abilities
Although Raijuta appears to be a tough fighter, proficient in the Shinko-ryu style, the izuna techniques are all show and no true power.
In the anime however his technique is shown to be very powerful, cutting swaths of land and even cutting branches whole from a distance without being in proximity.
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