Editing Buso Renkin (section)

==Production==
{{see also|List of Buso Renkin characters#Creation and conception{{!}}List of ''Buso Renkin'' characters#Creation and conception}}
Nobuhiro Watsuki started writing ''Buso Renkin'' thinking it would be his last {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} manga; he tried to do "everything [he] ever wanted" with that genre. He unexpectedly experienced problems drawing the manga's fight scenes and said he "struggled with the comedic elements".<ref name=after>{{cite book|last=Watsuki|first=Nobuhiro|title=Buso Renkin, Vol. 10|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|date=February 5, 2008|chapter=Afterward|pages=182–183|isbn=978-1-4215-1542-7}}</ref> Watsuki drew references from several sources in ''Buso Renkin''; from his past works ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''<ref>{{cite book|last=Watsuki|first=Nobuhiro|title=Buso Renkin, Vol. 1|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|date=August 1, 2006|chapter=Character File No. 1|isbn=1-4215-0615-7|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781421506159}}</ref> and ''[[Gun Blaze West]]''<ref>{{cite book|last=Watsuki|first=Nobuhiro|title=Buso Renkin, Vol. 10|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|date=February 5, 2008|chapter=Buso Renkin File No. 20|isbn=978-1-4215-1542-7}}</ref> to [[History of American comics|American comics]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Watsuki|first=Nobuhiro|title=Buso Renkin, Vol. 10|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|date=February 5, 2008|chapter=Buso Renkin File No. 22|isbn=978-1-4215-1542-7}}</ref> and from films to other anime and manga.<ref name=4649notes>{{cite book|last=Watsuki|first=Nobuhiro|title=Buso Renkin, Vol. 6|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|date=June 5, 2007|chapter=Liner Notes #46 ~ 49|isbn=978-1-4215-0842-9|url=https://archive.org/details/busorenkinvol6ne0000wats}}</ref> Despite dealing with alchemy, Watsuki initially avoided mentioning the philosopher's stone because he thought he could be accused of plagiarizing another series.<!-- probably, Fullmetal Alchemist, but without source, it shouldn't be mentioned --> He could not omit mentioning it, but he said that it is "general knowledge".<ref name=4649notes/> During the series' publication, Watsuki had four severe colds; the fourth cold made him so weak that he could not finish the chapter he was due to send to ''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]''.<ref name=after/>