Mon, Mar 12, 2018
Seventeen years ago, in the 20th year of the keichou era, at osaka, during the summer campaign, handmaid otashi reveals to senhime that she is in fact namemba, an iga ninja. In the present at edo castle, tenkai is trying to find tadanaga and calls in hadaebou. Hadaebou travels to jison'in village and asks for the ninja's assistance to defeat joujin and the murakumo, but they are reluctant to become involved. Meanwhile the kishuu prepare to attack the murakumo with canons, but joujin reassures tadanaga that they are well-defended. He opens fire with his own canons, completely wiping out the kishuu forces. Back in the keichou era, senhime is revealed as hideyori's wife and granddaughter of tokugawa ieyasu. Nambemba escapes with her, leaving her to be found by sakazaki naomori and rescued. In the present, gorone has decided to destroy the murakumo assisted by information provided by hadaebou about the joujinshuu, and outlines his plan to the ninjas. At edo castle, tenkai receives news that the ninja will attack the murakumo, and decides that tadanaga must suffer the consequences of his alliance with joujin.
Mon, May 21, 2018
Shikibu and hachisu attack the murakumo in a frontal assault, while inside, hachiro fights off hibiki who is being controlled by joujin. Hachiro defenselessly lets hibiki attack him and stops her, but, convinced by joijin that she is oboro, she calls him gennosuke. Then, rinne magoroku tries to use his adamantite tower to control hachiro. Meanwhile shichigen, rui and utsutsu travel up through the murakumo. Shichigen encounters yasha itaru who uses her destiny's passage mirror to creates the illusion that she is his mother. Controlled by itaru, shichigen then attacks and cuts shikibu and hachisu with his sword before they can defend themselves. Itaru then forces shikibu to remove his constraining armor. However even without her hands, hachisu shoots itaru, breaking her spell and then shikibu kills her as his unarmored body explodes. Meanwhile, joujin thinks he now has control over hachiro and hibiki, and waits for them to consummate their relationship.
Mon, Jan 29, 2018
That night iga ninja tsuta houetsu encounters a joujinshuu woman who threatens to kill him, but he trusts his defensive root barrier. She reveals her name is yasha itaru as he uses his root lasoo technique to bind her, however he makes the mistake of looking into her mirror, destiny's passage, which reflects his life, filling him with despair forcing to leap off a cliff to his death. Back at the ooi river joujin calls his attendants, kujaku tsuibamu and rinne magoroku who uses a spinning technique to transport tadanaga to akayashagaruba before the kokuuzou bosatsu or adamantite tower. Meanwhile, the iga ninja search for houestsu and encounter the joujinshuu, neiri chiou. Tadanaga finds himself going back in time through kujaku tsuibamu's inverted halberd of time, to when his brother was sick with the pox and envied his sibling's good health. Tadanaga now realizes that the kurokuwa, were sent by his brother to kill him, and his only option is rebellion. Back at jison'in village, an eagle delivers a cloth with the word joujinshuu written in blood from gei'in, the name of his killers. As rui and shichigen near the iga village, they find the remains of what appears to be the five flowers of iga. At ooi river, tadanaga is confronted by the four severed heads of the iga; shogyo kareha, tsuta houestsu, irootoroe itsuma and suiren shuugetsu. Joujin says he left only kouga hachirou and iga hibiki alive to demonstrate the power within his control.
Mon, Apr 2, 2018
Rui and shichigen part ways with hachiro and then fire a flare to call the others for assistance. As shaizou and utsutsu go to their aid, they are also surrounded by the rain. Utsutsu uses her dreaming reality technique, but one of the rain throws a smoke bomb, neutralizing the effect of her illusions. Shaizou then uses his eyes to spread her illusions, consuming the rain with fear, but also effecting himself. In a flashback, the young utsutsu spends half of her time in a room dominated by a huge painted mandala depicting hell, which her father explains is to develop her ninja dreaming reality technique. On the day she must master the technique or die, her father burns himself to death before her, leaving her with a horrifying memory forever. Back in the present, hachiro encounters hadaebou attempting to infiltrate the murakumo during the chaos. Shaizou fires a cannon balls at the murakumo with little effect, and the second one is fired back at them by kujaku tsuibamu using his inverted halberd of time. Meanwhile hachiro permits hadaebou to pass to rescue tadanaga, however joujin appears and reminds hadaebou that tenkai's orders were to eliminate tadanaga if he could not be saved.
Mon, Apr 9, 2018
Hachiro attacks joujin, and hadaebou takes the opportunity to continue his mission. Joujin easily defeats hachiro, but then surprisingly sheathes his sword. The group of ninja regroup and shaizou tries to analyse kujaku's inverted halberd of time technique by firing test cannon balls at the murakumo. Hadaebou gains entry to the murakumo but realizes that tadanaga no intention of returning and has fully allied himself with joijin. Meanwhile joijin tries to convince hachiro to join him, but hachiro refuses and then escapes when hibiki and shikibu create a diversion. Joijin calls kujaku to fire his shiroku cannons at the ninjas which causes a massive earth displacement. Hachiro grabs hibiki, and as their eyes meet, they again create a powerful maelstrom of light, the ouka. They create the ouka again to defeat joujin, but rinne magoroku arrives to transport joujin back to the murakumo while hachiro and hibiki collapse into unconsciousness. Shaizou finally realizes that kujaku's technique has a time limit and during that period, namemba flies over the murakumo on a kite and successfully fires a cannonball into the tower, causing a series of explosions which consume the murakumo in flames.
Mon, May 7, 2018
Neiri chiou creates a demon god illusion to knock namemba and hachisu from the wall of the murakumo where they meet hachiro and shichigen. Meanwhile, hadaebou tries to convince tadanaga to leave joujin, however joujin intercedes and, and tells him that he will be merely be the vessel to revive oda kazusanosuke nobunaga. Joujin uses his powers to force tadanaga to stab hadaebou and then offers tadanaga the opportunity to commit seppuku. Instead, tadanaga rants at joujin, cursing him forever and is decapitated instead. Still alive, hadaebou grabs tadanaga's head and escapes. By keeping his eyes closed, neiri chiou avoids hachiro's dojutsu, but shichigen calls in swarm of insects, attracting a flock of birds which surround and distract neiri chiou. Suddenly gorone appears driving a mechanized vehicle and distributes cannons to the ninjas. He then fires long barbed projectiles at neiri chiou, successfully severing his right arm, however gorone is killed in the attempt. Over the body of gorone, hachiro asks the iga ninjas to risk their lives to help him rescue hibiki.
Mon, Jun 4, 2018
Joujin prepares to kill both hachiro and hibiki, while rui and utsutsu lie dying on the giant stairway. Hadaebou attacks kujaku while hachiro attacks joujin. Suddenly illusions created by rui and utsutsu confuse joukin, opening him to hibiki's attack. Wounded, joujin advances on hibiki, only to be stabbed from behind by kujaku. Kukaku recalls in 1582 when he was called ranmaru, as his master nobunaga's compound went up in flames, nobunaga gave him the name kujaku and bid him live on to keep his dream of conquest alive. Kujaku still serves his original master, and as joujin's blood falls on the skull of nobunaga, kujaku places it on the body of tadanaga and nobunaga is resurrected. The dying joujin is pleased that his plan came to fruition, however nobunaga dismisses him and does not recognize kujaku. Just then, namemba arrives and triggers a series of explosions to destroy the murakumo, but kujaku's inverted halberd of time reverses the explosions. This time, rinne magoroku cuts the fuses to prevent the explosions reoccurring, but suddenly nobunaga stabs kujaku with his katana, declaring that he is not as beautiful as his former ranmaru.
Mon, Jan 8, 2018
At the succession ceremony of the new shogun, takechiyo and kunichiyo are shown the ninja scroll saying iga oboro was the last to die, confirming takechiyo as the future shogun, much to kunichiyo's disappointment. Back at the ooi river the five kouga ninjas identify the assailants as iga ninja. Kaso himonji uses his grass fire technique to attack the iga and kazuma kusanagi uses his heaven's lyre whips to slash them, but an iga uses his darkness spider to cloak the area in darkness. However shichito gei'in uses his firefly squid technique to illuminate the night and calls on tenshin who uses his thousand-handed kannon to finish them off. While waiting to proceed, tadanaga questions gei'in about gennosuke's eye technique. In jison'in village, hachirou plans to leave, concerned that his and hibiki's powers are a threat to them both. Meanwhile tadanaga speculates with gei'in and kaso himonji about what actually happened on the day of the duel between gennosuke and oboro and kyouhachirou's interest in continuing the kouga and iga blood lines. Suddenly tenshin appears at the door, but he falls dead before them.
Mon, Jan 15, 2018
In the early days of training, the young ninja practice, but are reminded by gorone negoro that they do not fight for kouga nor iga, but for their leaders. They also learn about the powers of hibiki and hachirou. Back at the ooi river gei'in and kaso rush out looking for kazuma and find him bound to a water wheel and killed by his own heaven's lyre. The meet the killer, but when kaso attacks him, his own grass fire flames consume him. He reveals his name is kujaku tsuibamu, one of the joujinshuu, enemies of both the five treasures of kouga and five flowers of iga who are fated to die that night. As he talks gei'in sends his poisonous firefly squid below kujaku tsuibamu, but he avoids it, and even when he sends a burst of poison towards him, it returns to his body, killing him. Hachirou detects that four treasures of kouga are deadand returns with hibiki to the village. Gorone reminds them that they must put their clan differences aside, and sends rui and shichigen to warn the five flowers of iga while the others stand guard. Back at the ooi river tadanaga is confronted by joujin, a former palace official who tells him that he will be executed by his brother, shogun iemitsu.
Mon, Feb 12, 2018
In 1630, four years later, in edo castle tokugawa hidetada strips tadanaga of his lands and privilege for killing monkeys at sengen shrine at suruga. Later that year, hidetada passes away from illness, and his funeral is held in secret according to his wishes. A year later, tadanaga is exiled at takasaki castle in the distant land of joushuu (kozuke province). Several years later, the young ninjas have grown while continuing their training in preparation for the day their enemies reappear. They have not seen hachiro since the battle with joujin and his agents, although since he left, hibiki has been conscious of his presence. Meanwhile hachiro has also honed his skills, in preparation for facing joujin again. One day, while crossing a suspension bridge, hachiro encounters a blindfolded stranger who attacks him to test his skills. The stranger introduces .himself as hadaebou, and delivers a message that the dainagon of suruga who is exiled in kouzuke wants to speak with him. He believes a strange, dark moving castle called murakumo is coming.