9 January 2018, 00:00 (JST)
In The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, 10 ninja of the Kouga clan faced 10 ninja of the Iga clan to decide which clan would succeed the Tokugawa family and reign for the next 1,000 years. The story continues in The Ouka Ninja Scrolls, set 10 years after the war. A visual shows off the main characters Hachiro Koga and Hibiki Iga. What does their destiny have prepared for them?
Yamada wrote it as a sequel to the 1958 novel Kouga Ninpouchou (The Kouga Ninja Scrolls) by Futaro Yamada, well known for his Ninpouchou series. Manga author Masaki Segawa wrote a manga adaptation of the original Koga Ninpochou under the title Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls (Basilisk; Kouga Nippouchou) in Young Magazine. The manga has 5 volumes and has sold over 1.7 million copies. A TV anime was aired in 2005 that is still popular today. A new serialization has been decided to start in this month’s Young Magazine No. 34, coming out on 24 July 2017.
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Masaki Yamada/ Kodansha Taiga
Tatsuya Shihira
Masaki Segawa
Kouga Nippoucchou by Futaro Yamada
Shinsuke Oonishi
Junji Nishimura
Maki Takao
Goichi Iwahata
Kazuhisa Kosuge
Kazusuke Yoshihara
Toshiko Kaizu
Fusako Nakao
Tadashi Kitaoka
Tetora
Naomasa Fukuda
Kazuhiko Seki
Chikako Yokota
Glovision Inc.
Go Sakabe
King Records
Seven Arcs Pictures
桜花忍法帖製作委員会
Tasuku Hatanaka
Inori Minase
Takuya Kirimoto
Choo
Yuji Murai
Kosuke Sakaki
Ryuu Yamaguchi
Shohei Fuji
Chafurin
Tooru Sakurai
Katsuhiro Tokuishi
Fukushi Ochiai
Mitsuhiro Ichiki
Shinichiro Miki
Saori Hayami
Reina Ueda
Ayane Sakura
Kaori Nazuka
Hachiro Koga
Voiced by: Tasuku Hatanaka
Hibiki Iga
Voiced by: Inori Minase
Seven Arcs Pictures
Opening: Ouka Ninpouchou by Onmyo-Za
Ending: Hot Blood, Suiren by Nana Mizuki
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