In Rurouni Kenshin the character Shishio Makoto is roughly based on Serizawa Kamo as said by the manga artist Nobuhiro Watsuki, creator of Rurouni Kenshin series, during an interview ( contained in Kenshin Kaden ).

Watsuki said that he used " no specific model " and " no specific motif " when designing Kaoru.

When creating Kenshin, Watsuki designed him to be the physical opposite of Hiko Seijūrō, a character that appears in Watsuki's first one-shot manga, " Crescent Moon in the Warring States "; a character with the same name appears in Rurouni Kenshin as Kenshin's swordsmanship teacher.

Watsuki based most of Kenshin's abilities on a real swordsman of the Tokugawa period named Matsubayashi Henyasai, who was skilled in acrobatic techniques.

During the development of the pilot chapter of the series, Rurouni, Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, Watsuki and his editor argued over Kenshin's speech patterns ; they settled for a " slangy " pattern.

" Watsuki added Kenshin's trademark " oro " as a placeholder to be an expression of the English speech disfluency " huh ".

In the first Rurouni Kenshin kanzenban, published in Japan in July 2006, Watsuki included a draft page featuring a redesign of Kenshin's character.

Watsuki also added a habaki to Kenshin's sword to make it easier to draw by simplifying its structure, while also emphasizing strength.

Watsuki received letters from fans describing Megumi Ogata's CD book voice as a " good fit " for Kenshin.

" The fact that the CD book voice actors, especially Ogata and Tomokazu Seki, who portrayed Sanosuke, did not get their corresponding roles in the anime disappointed Watsuki.

Watsuki describes Tomo Sakurai's CD drama voice as " not too airhead-y ," " not too high ," and " not too low.

Initially, Watsuki had planned to make his hair shorter before the end, however, he found this to be similar to the character Multi from To Heart.

Watsuki wished that he could design Kaoru " more cutely " and to be " more fashionable " but decided to tone down those qualities as he felt that she needed to express " down-to-earth " and financially " poor " characteristics as well.

Watsuki decided to redesign the sword to make it look as the first one Kenshin had in the series, though it is more difficult to draw.

For the final version of the first Romantic Story, Watsuki adjusted the dialogue ; in his view, he made Kenshin sound " more as I prefer him now.

To make his X-shaped scar more notable, Watsuki made it long enough to cross his nose.

However, Watsuki responded saying that the character was more similar to Mai Shiranui or Yuri, comically saying he was " making his own grave " due to the similarities with the SNK characters.

( Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United States Abraham Lincoln with Ōkubo in his notes.

At the age of 19, he worked as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki on Rurouni Kenshin, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists.

Watsuki also credits Oda for the creation of the character Honjō Kamatari who appears in Rurouni Kenshin.

While Oda was an assistant of Watsuki, his colleague was Hiroyuki Takei, and the three of them are good friends.

He was later introduced to Nobuhiro Watsuki and became his assistant along with Eiichiro Oda on Rurouni Kenshin.

, known as Kenshin Himura in the English-language anime dubs, is a fictional character as well as the main protagonist from the Rurouni Kenshin manga created by Nobuhiro Watsuki, as well as the related media in the franchise.

Nobuhiro Watsuki, after watching the last OVA, was quite unhappy with how the story ended, saying that " Kenshin went through so much crap and deserved a happy ending.

Tokiko Tsumura, one of the main characters of Buso Renkin, another series created by Watsuki, is based on the design of Kenshin as a hitokiri.

Watsuki commented that Tokiko is the female version of the " Hitokiri Battōsai " when he drew her face.

Watsuki discovered and used the story of Kawakami Gensai, a executed by the Meiji Government.

According to Watsuki, when he found that Kawakami maintained a duty to his dead comrades, he decided to create the title character.

" According to Watsuki, he used " no real motif " when creating Kenshin and placed a cross-shaped scar when " not knowing what else to do.

Watsuki notes that he was surprised at how much it caught on, and how much he ended up having Kenshin use the sound during the series.

Watsuki also planned to make Kenshin older than 30 years old ; his editor commented that it was strange that the main character of a manga for teenagers was so old, so he made Kenshin 28 years old.

Elizabeth's proclamation of the sentence announced that " the said Mary, pretending title to the same Crown, had compassed and imagined within the same realm divers things tending to the hurt, death and destruction of our royal person.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

Things that are imagined are said to be seen in the " mind's eye ".

In a letter home, Clarke said that " we found much more in their possession than was represented or imagined ".

Peter Gabriel has said in an interview for the 2008 box-set release of The Lamb that he was not happy about the choice of model as he had vividly imagined Rael as being Puerto Rican.

Paleontologist Bob Bakker said of the imagined rivalry between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, " No matchup between predator and prey has ever been more dramatic.

If the kings of Alba imagined, as John of Fordun did, that they were rulers of Strathclyde, the death of Cuilén mac Iduilb and his brother Eochaid at the hands of Amdarch of Strathclyde in 971, said to be in revenge for the rape or abduction of his daughter, shows otherwise.

Bugler was highly acclaimed, but she was prevented from taking the London stage part by Hardy's wife, Florence Dougdale, who was jealous of her ; Hardy had said that young Gertrude was the true incarnation of the Tess he had imagined.

The importance of colour is linked to Messiaen's synaesthesia, which he said caused him to experience colours when he heard or imagined music ( he said that he did not perceive the colours visually ).

In 1952, Kenneth Tynan, blaming the director for a badly-received Macbeth said he " seems to have imagined that Ralph Richardson, with his comic, Robeyesque cheese face, was equipped to play Macbeth.

J. K. Rowling said the name " seemed to suit the headmaster, because one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself ".

Many critics reviewed the album, Pitchfork Media quotes " The Richard D. James Album is 43. 5 minutes of pure electronic genius " A review by the Chicago Sun-Times < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Jim DeRogatis said of the album: " James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his West Country childhood.

The character of Matilda was highly praised by Coleridge as Lewis's masterpiece, and is said to be “ exquisitely imagined ” and “ superior in wickedness to the most wicked of men.

A French justice ministry report said Charrière's book included episodes that were imagined or involved others and " should be divided by at least 10 to get near the truth ". In 2005, a 104-year-old man in Paris, Charles Brunier, claimed to be the real Papillon.

( The programme was an imagined reconstruction of a 1783 pantomime in which Mozart and Aloysia Weber are said to have taken part.

Julie has always said that she imagined herself living a life of wealth and privilege from a young age.

They are said to differ from dreams proper in that hypnagogic imagery is usually static and lacking in narrative content, although others understand the state rather as a gradual transition from hypnagogia to fragmentary dreams, i. e., from simple " eigenlicht " to whole imagined scenes.

Parsons later said that he had imagined that if he could publish a book then he would be able to make a living as a professional writer.

On the change of appearance for Jill ( who was turned blonde ) and Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5, production director Yasuhiro Anpo said that he tried " to preserve their image and imagined how they would have changed over the passage of time " and so they " made a new design that retained their signature color — green for Chris, blue for Jill — to carry over the same look from the past.

Quoting Jackie on her early lesbian experiences, she said ' I didn't see myself as being a Lesbian, or her, because I didn't look as I imagined they did, and nor did she.

" There is, unfortunately, and as we all imagined, some police personnel directly involved ," Soria said last night told Radio America, Telam reported.

He had to sustain much opposition, especially from Syme, but he did not imitate his opponent's mode of controversy ; and if on any occasion he imagined he had said or done something to hurt another's feelings, he never rested till he had made reparation in some form.

He has said that he never imagined the band would use it as their main logo.