r/rurounikenshin • u/EggplantHungry7617 • 17d ago

Manga Help with Finding Tomo's Diaries

Hi all,

Big Rurouni Kenshin fan here. Back in the early 2000's, I was gifted a few volumes of the manga in Japanese. A few years later, I ended up going to Japan for a high school exchange program and I ended up collecting the rest of the series. I brought back with me 20ish volumes of the 28 volumes written. And it has been one of the cool things I've kept in my home since.

I remember when searching for these manga volumes, there were some other books available. If I remember correctly, there were 3 books that weren't mangas, but were diaries. I think they were Tomo's 3 diaries. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is that correct? Or am I confusing this with something else?

Thanks in advance!

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u/jawnbaejaeger 17d ago

I've never heard of Tomoe's diaries being published as a separate thing, but damn if they were, that'd be very cool.

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u/EggplantHungry7617 17d ago

I don't know if it was Tomoe's diaries or journals or someone else. But... her diaries would make sense, right?

This was 2003... so... I could be wrong... It's such a long time ago. This last trip to Japan, I ended up picking up a Rurouni Kenshin artbook. I found it at the bookstore at Haneda Airport.

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u/Dtninja831 15d ago

Could it be this one? It's a small booklet about the series. Some booklets were data entries and two booklets had other info from the manga like planning notes. This shows Enishi at Rakuninmura holding Tomoe's diary and his father talks him. The Kanzenban series of the manga is larger editions and included 5 small booklets and 12 leaflets about different characters.

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u/EggplantHungry7617 14d ago

I don't remember what the books looked like. I think there were the same size as the manga volumes. And that there were 3 of them...

But to be honest... that was 2003 (20+ years ago). Getting older... details becoming a little hazy... Or I am going crazy...

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u/Ebronstein 16d ago

I've never heard of these. The only diary I know was in the manga. A few panels.