Very sad and bad news. I was looking to see if I'd be able to change my user name to Psycho_Kenshiro (from Fist of the North Star) or something like that, or if I'd be in trouble for having this username now etc.
As for the old talking about anime and manga stuff, that's a lot more fun of a topic! I like Trigun a lot, but I've always liked Kenshin more myself. Kenshin was my favorite, it does a lot of what One Piece does for example, and of course our guy Oda got his start as an assistant on Kenshin, even creating a character or two etc.
I could go on about the appeal of Kenshin, what I think works about it, but ultimately, it's been around for nearly 20 years in English (hit America in 2000, I guess earlier if you were into VHS fansubs etc), everybody knows what they like or don't. Not to say discussion isn't good, I just think what connects with each person is different. And it can be easy to see why people like some series that you don't find special etc. But I felt I'd chime in and just share that, as you can tell by the username, it's one of my favorites.
Unfortunately, now that it's associated with some bad in real life things, this is very sad. Sad that those things happen, and in general it's just a sad thing, since Kenshin has been a positive good thing for me over the years.