According to kenshin-tv, Rurouni Kenshin Shin Kyoto-hen Blu-ray and DVD will be released on March 21, 2012. It will contain the first part of the movie shown in Japan theaters this December. There is a limited edition release with a picture book containing 261 pages, including setting drawn by Hiromitsu Hagiwara the character designer.

Bluray will cost 6,615 JPY while DVDs will be 5,565 JPY. There is no announcement yet of a US release. Keep your fingers crossed.

OMG!!!!!!! Watsuki is coming to work on Rurouni Kenshin! This is the best Christmas present I could hope for! I am literally screaming in my seat with pure joy! There is a God!

Below is from Animenewsnetwork:

Manga creator Nobuhiro Watsuki will be resuming his Rurouni Kenshin series for a brief run starting in the June issue of Shueisha's Jump Squaremagazine, which will ship on May 2, 2012. The magazine's advertising describes the samurai manga's return as a "reboot," although the magazine may not be using the term with the English denotation in mind. More details will be in upcoming issues of Jump Square.

In the meantime, Watsuki is putting his current manga series, Embalming - The Another Tale of Frankenstein, on hiatus as of the March issue ofJump Square magazine, which will ship in February. Embalming will return in the fall. This manga has been running in Jump Square since its inaugural issue in 2007.

Keishi Ōtomo's live-action Rurouni Kenshin film will open in Japan on August 25, 2012. The first half of the new Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-Henanime project just opened in two theaters last week, and the second half is slated to be completed next summer. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America.

Computer game fans watch out! This coming March 2012 - the much acclaimed Total War Shogun 2 published by Sega will have a new -stand alone- installment based on the Bakumatsu! What makes this special? The Shinsengumi will be in it as a new agent type under the playable Tokugawa clan. Did you see that coming? Of course you did! We are Shinsengumi fans after all.

What is stand alone? Well it means that this isn't an expansion pack - it's a full blown game and you don't need Shogun 2 to play it. That's welcome new to most of us who don't yet own Shogun 2. If you want more info please visit the official page.

The first part of the new Kenshin anime project called "Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-hen" will be released this December 17 in Japan. They have started streaming the trailer this Monday and you can watch it here.

The official website for the project also released several images containing screenshots from the trailer and character designs. The character designs are worth looking at as they are new character designs by Hagiwara Hiromitsu who worked on Saint Beast.

Last Friday Aksys games released it's Issue# 2 of the Gentry magazine featuring Harada Sanosuke of the Shinsengumi. On their blog post they officially announced that Hakuouki (PSP) will be released on Valentines Day (Feb. 14, 2012).

Interestingly last Wednesday night Amazon started taking pre-orders for Hakuouki. Well before Aksys announcement last Friday. :) You can pre-order your copy here! And while you're waiting why not read up on Harada Sanosuke and Todou Heisuke at Aksys games?