Rurouni Kenshin

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, a time of war when citizens rose up against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to build an era of peace and a thriving country free from oppression. The new Meiji age has arrived, but peace has still not been achieved. Swords are banned, yet people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.