Always willing to put others before himself, both in terms of well-being and social standing, Kenshin usually refers to others with the noble honorific of "- dono" while nearly always speaking of himself with the particularly humble pronoun " sessha" (translated by Viz Media as "this one") and ending his phrases with the formal verb " de gozaru" (translated by Media Blasters as phrases like "that it is" or "that I am"). Soft-spoken, serene and humble, Himura Kenshin's usual demeanor suits his effeminate appearance perfectly. In the live-action films, Kenshin wears multiple kimonos in addition to his signature red one. In the manga, this outfit is more ragged-looking. In the OVA adaptation of Kenshin's past, he wears a navy blue kimono with a light gray hakama and brown hand guards, as well as the same two sheathed weapons at the side of his obi. In the anime's flashback scenes of the Bakumatsu, Kenshin wears a light blue kimono with a dark blue jacket and a brown hakama, as well as his sheathed katana and wakizashi at the side of his obi.
His sakabatō is worn tucked under his obi at his left hip in a black, steel saya. In colored illustrations of the manga, his kimono alternates between red, purple and blue. In the anime series, Kenshin's kimono is almost always a soft red-like burgundy, but also often appears to be pink or light purple (most likely to contrast better with his red hair). Kenshin dresses simply, wearing a plain men's kimono of cheap, worn cloth with a white umanori hakama, zori and white tabi. In a redesign for the kanzenban, Kenshin's scar has been altered so that the lateral scar is longer, stretching across his nose to just below the inner corner of his right eye. According to his allies during his days in the Ishin Shishi, this scar was said to have constantly bled and never healed as the mark of a curse for having slain an innocent person. Kenshin's cross-shaped scar actually consists of two separate scars-a long one running diagonally down his face from just below the outer corner of his left eye to just above his chin and a slightly shorter scar running diagonally across it in the other direction from just to the left of the bridge of his nose to his left jawbone. In the anime, when Kenshin's eyes change to reflect his psychological reversion to Hitokiri Battōsai, their color shifts from violet to gold. Kenshin's eyes, too, are unusual, being a deep violet.
At the end of the manga, he has cut off the ponytail entirely (presumably to prevent his son from pulling on it) and wears his hair evenly at about chin length. During the Bakumatsu, Kenshin wore his ponytail at the top-back of his head. Kenshin's hair is thick and abundant, with all of the shorter frontal hairs falling across his face as bangs rather than being in the ponytail at the nape of his neck. Because of this, Kenshin cuts quite a different figure than would be expected of the legendary Hitokiri Battōsai, but he is easily recognized by his infamous distinguishing features: mid-back length red hair tied in a thick ponytail and a cross-shaped sword scar on his left cheek. Despite being twenty-eight-years old, he is deceptively younger looking, appearing to be in his mid-teen years. Kenshin is a fair-skinned man of below-average height, slim built, with an androgynous face.
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