| Among Japanese anime, Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto in part dramatizes the Boshin War, while Rurouni Kenshin is set 10 years after. |
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| During the Bakumatsu, he had a long time rivalry with Himura Kenshin, an assassin of the Imperialist cause. |
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| At the end of the Bakumatsu, the pro-shogunate forces were ultimately defeated and Saitō was forced to go into hiding. |
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| Sorachi liked the Bakumatsu and Sengoku periods due to how both were eras of change and thus presented the positive and negative points of humanity. |
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| Subsequent similar treaties with Western countries in the Bakumatsu period brought economic and political crises. |
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