The Shimabara Arc (島原編) is the second anime-exclusive story arc of the Rurouni Kenshin 1996 anime series.
It was also serialized into a novel co-written and edited by Nobuhiro Watsuki, Ryo Aki and Fumie Muroi, and was released in February 1999 by Shueisha under their Jump J-Books label.
The story was published in the "Rurouni Kenshin: Voyage to the Moon World" (Rurouni Kenshin - Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Maki No Ichi).
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Advent of the God[]
To Shimabara[]
Blinded by the Flash[]
The Evangelist's Conspiracy[]
Aftermath[]
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- The prosecution of Christians within Japan during the Meiji Era within the Shimabara Arc can be perceived as a bit historically inaccurate, as Christianity was legalized by 1873 in Japan, allowing long hidden kakure kirishitans religious freedom to openly express and worship their faith. Despite this, the prosecution expressed within the arc can be acknowledged as ignorance based bigotry and discrimination, and long standing aggression against "foreign" spirituality other than national and ethnic religions after the Meiji government began its haibutsu kishaku Buddhism purges.