Introduction to Volume 1: In the past, the Shinsengumi was a group of fighters in Kyoto who fought against the rebellious ronin of the Choshu clan and others who defied the Shogunate. In the first year of Meiji, Choshu and Satsuma now call themselves the government forces, and the Shinsengumi have become a bandit army. As the Shinsengumi is driven north by the government forces, Hijikata Toshizo, the deputy leader of the Shinsengumi, visits his friend Okita Soji, who is seriously ill. What are h...
