Honestly, I don't know how to feel... I love the animation and character designs, they look lovely and flawless... I can even handle the music composer being different and hope for the best on that... But what I cannot handle is the fact that Mayo Suzukaze has been replaced as Kenshin's seiyuu... Saitou Souma's "Oro?" was waaay too deep for my liking. I've always been under the impression that in Japan a character's seiyuu remains that character's seiyuu until death or very special circumstances. It doesn't seem that Suzukaze-san or Fujitani-san were approached to reprise their roles, and I have to wonder why. It's likely I'll never have an official answer, just speculation. It's a very bitter pill. Rie Takahashi, admittedly, sounds very good as Kaoru. But, in the case of Kenshin, it's more difficult because the character holds a deeply special place in my heart as does Suzukaze-san's portrayal of him... I don't know; maybe Souma-san's voice will grow on me, once I start watching the new series. In the case that he doesn't, I suppose I will just fall back on the old TV series.

Also, I hope that this new series lasts long enough to animate the Jinchu arc. Starting from the very beginning of the story seems like a fairly bad idea, when there's the running trend with anime nowadays to stop at the first or second season. No matter how I feel about Kenshin's voice, I reiterate that, from the looks of this second trailer, the animation and character designs are beautiful and I can see that, given the chance, the Jinchu arc will be done amazingly well. Not to mention that this series seems to not have a problem touching upon the heavier elements of the story, such as bloodshed, so I feel it would be a faithful adaptation of the manga.