Kenshin is a war veteran in 1800’s japan. Kenshin was a soldier in a japanese civil war that took place after the western countries threatened to bomb Japan if they didn’t trade with us. During the war Kenshin or Ken as he is called by his friends became known as battosai the manslayer for the sheer number of people he killed. After the war Kenshin traded in his katan for a reverse blade sword and swore to never kill again. Heroic attributes Kenshin has many different heroic qualities. For example