Moeyo Ken (anime)

Moeyo Ken, known in Japan as Kidō Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken, is a PS2 video game from 2002 about magical girl variants of Shinsengumi, a police force, and of Sakamoto Ryunosuke and his illegal companion, Nekomaru. The game was adapted into an OVA and a television series. Moeyo Ken was created by Hiroi Oji, creator of the Sakura Wars series, with character designs by Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½ and Inuyasha.
ADV Films licensed it effective September 25, 2006, for $43,335.

TV Series

Set in an alternate universe Meiji Era, the lead male character of the story, Ryunosuke Sakamoto, is travelling from Shanghai towards Kyoto with his newly licensed yōkai Nekomaru. The law in the story states that to be in legal possession of such a creature that it must be licensed. The Shinsengumi are enforcers of this law.

Characters

The Mobile Shinsengumi

;Ryunosuke Sakamoto
;Yuko Kondo
;Toshie Hijikata
;Kaoru Okita
;Nekmaru
;Gennai Hiraga
;Kiyomi Watase

The Tsubame Group

The Tsubame Group are the villains in the Meiji era representing the new government and try to return monsters to their old selves before monster registration was effective. The compose of mean girl Miki Saotome, handsome and fearless Ukon Tanaka and the short and strange Sakon Suzuki. They greatly resemble Team Rocket from the Pokémon franchise.
;Miki Saotome
;Ukon Tanaka
;Sakon Suzuki