MEGUMI TAKANI

Doctor. Extracted early in the series from a situation involving opium production that the show handles with more seriousness than the tone around it might suggest. The most medically capable person in the group's orbit and the character who most consistently cuts through everyone else's drama with something resembling adult perspective. Her dynamic with Sanosuke is the show's best comic thread. Her feelings about Kenshin complicate the household in ways the series plays carefully.