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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.
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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.
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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, Feb 5, 2018
Outside jison'in village, the ninja students are confronted by a physical illusion of a huge, dark, powerful beast riding an elephant. For safety, gorone leads hachiro and hibiki to a secret tunnel in the mountain to hide while the situation is resolved. Utsutsu and shaizou try to defeat the monster's controller, neiri chiou, but his illusions are too powerful. Meanwhile hachisu and shikibu tackle the monster itself and manage to trick it into falling off a cliff, but their victory is short-lived. Rui and shichigen also try to attack neiri chiou and the monster but fail. Meanwhile hachiro exits the tunnel, leaving hibiki behind. He counteracts neiri chiou's technique with his dojutsu, and so joujin recalls him. Hachiro finds joujin is unaffected by his dojutsu technique because of his self control conditioning. Joujin then calls on yasha iratu to use her destiny's passage mirror to kill hachiro and hibiki who had just emerged from the tunnel. However namenba suddenly intercedes, chasing off yasha iratu, but not before hachiro and hibiki look into each other's eyes creating a powerful maelstrom of light. Epilogue: tadanaga finally arrives back at the palace and six months later lady oeyo, the former shogun's, wife passes away.
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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.
Mon, Feb 19, 2018
Namenba infiltrates edo castle to speak to the shogun. She is intercepted by the iga kurokuwa, but although she kills them all, she suspects someone helped her. She dribbles a truth potion in the sleeping shogun's mouth and questions him. She finds that he knows nothing about joujin who appears to be acting without the shogun's authority. As she escapes, she encounters hadaebou who was her mysterious ally. At jison'in village the ninja girls discuss the dark moving castle or houren ( imperial carriage) which hibiki believes is transporting the joujinshuu. In takasaki castle, tadanaga tells hachiro about his encounter with joujin 6 years ago and the power he displayed. Tadanaga says joujin tricked him into killing the monkeys at sengen shrine and then built the murakumo with money he gave to joujin to build an imperial carriage in his mother's memory. He asks hachiro to destroy the murakumo and the joujinshuu inside, however hachiro refuses, not wanting the ninjas again to be pawns in a tokugawa power struggle. Angry, tadanaga calls on his samurai waiting outside to kill hachiro. They enter wearing eye-shades, but shaizou allows hachiro to focus his dojutsu technique through his moving eyes, forcing them to kill each other. Hachiro then leaves, but tadanaga orders him to be followed and killed.
Mon, Feb 26, 2018
In a flashback to 18 years earlier in edo castle, tenkai is seen proposing a ninja duel to the shogun to settle his succession and save a costly war between opposing samurai. In the present, tadanaga's commander bunnoshin, prepares to trap hachiro, firstly by a group of archers commanded by a man with sensitive hearing who can direct their arrows to avoid hachiro's dojutsu technique. However a flight of crickets sent by shichigen distracts him, enabling hachiro to use his dojutsu to destroy them all. The next trap uses riflemen commanded by the master marksman gorouza the hawk, but shikibu first ambushes the riflemen, with hachiro then killing the remainder. Gorouza prepares to shoot hachiro, but soap bubbles he blew to show wind direction enable hachiro again to use his dojutsu and gorouza shoots himself. Hachiro then refuses his comrades' help, wanting to seek revenge without spilling their blood. When hachiro stops for food, he meets gobo, high priest tenkai's ninja monk, who offers an alliance against the common enemy, joujin, who now has additional forces called the rain. Meanwhile utsutsu and rui investigate the murakumo. They encounter what appear to be farmers, but they are joujin's rain fighters. Pursued by the rain, the two ninja fight back with their special skills. At suruga, joujin confronts tadanaga.
Mon, Mar 5, 2018
Joujin tells tadanaga that he could become a god like the samurai oda kazusanosuke nobunaga. Utsutsu and rui continue the fight the pursuing rain fighters but are outnumbered however, their ninja comrades and namemba appear and assist them. Back at the village, gorone examines utsutsu's sketch of the murakumo while namemba tells him about her conversation with the monk, nankoubou tenkai, most trusted councilor of lord ieyasu who asked for the ninja's help defeating the common enemy, the joujinshuu. The ninja regroup at their cafe and learn about hachiro's meeting with tadanaga and his intention to fight alone. They decide to learn more about the murakumo, shaizou using his technique to see inside the structure, with his vulnerable body protected by the others. He sees the what appears to be the kazusanosuke (vice governor) who crumbles to dust before he has to withdraw. They are again pursued by the rain, leaving it to rui to dispose of them with backup from hachisu. Meanwhile, hachiro sees the soldiers of kishuu on the march.
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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, Mar 19, 2018
While shikibu kora is being fitted for new armor, gorone explains that he must move like a rhinoceros, wandering in a single direction. Suddenly, the ninjas detect that they have intruders, and hachisu goes to intercept them. She shoots two of them, but the third, a huge one-eyed man wrapped in torn bandages is not affected by her bullets and manages to corner her. Shikibu arrives and grabs him, but he has same strength abilities as shikibu and he forces shikibu and hachisu to fall into a rocky crevasse. In a flashback, shikibu is shown as a young boy, wrapped in bandages when he is told by a priest of his fate, to wander alone and have no friends. While hibiki leaves the village, carrying a new set of armor for shikibu, shikibu suffers in pain from his own unprotected body as it bursts off pieces of his remaining armor. Hachisu removes her clothes and wraps him to relieve the pain, reminding him that his job is to protect their leaders. Hibiki encounters the bandaged intruder, but he covers his eyes to protect himself from her ability. However, hachiro appears and catches the intruder unaware, piercing him with his sword before he again disappears. Hachisu and shikibu then emerge to find the wounded intruder, but this time shikibu uses all his strength to kill him.
Mon, Mar 26, 2018
The four ninja, rui, shichigen, shaizou and utsutsu, leave to implement gorone's plan to destroy the murakumo. A short while later, hachisu and shikibu return to the village. The four ninja approach the murakumo by boat and rui and shichigen prepare to engage the defending rain fighters. In a flashback, the young shichigen recalls how he began to control insects. Outside the murakumo, rui distracts a group of the rain while shichigen cuts them down. However, it's a trap and they come under heavy rifle fire from the rain and shichigen is shot in the thigh. Meanwhile, hibiki, hachisu and the re-armored shikibu leave the village to follow them. Surrounded by the rain, rui and shichigen encounter hachiro. With the aid of shichigen's control of insects, hachiro defeats the rain with his dojutsu technique, except for one who is dispatched by rui. In a final series of flashbacks, shichigen recalls how his mother was killed by a wandering samurai because of his inexperience and that he later named his technique "wind through the pines".
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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.
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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, Apr 16, 2018
In edo, tenkai receives credit for the destruction of the murakumo, with no mention of the ninjas. Although the murakumo exploded, gorone is suspicious about its fate as no debris were left behind. The ninjas return to operating their café but maintain a lookout for the joujinshuu. While walking shichigen sees visions of himself and his parents in the past, but it's the combined work of the joujinshuu. In kyoto, hachiro searches for the old kamagawa village, and is told that the ghost of nobunaga has been seen there. Meanwhile hibiki has a vision created by joujin that hachiro professes his love for her. She leaves under the influence of neiri chiou, immobilizing the iga who follow her. Meanwhile hachiro meets kujaku who challenges him. In their first encounter, kujaku avoids hachiro's ouka, but the second time, hachiro successfully counters kujaku's inverted halberd of time, cutting kujaku's face with the very cherry tree branch he used as a weapon. Meanwhile back near the iga village, a new murakumo appears.
Mon, Apr 23, 2018
Namemba and hachisu see hibiki being taken into the new murakumo by the joujinshuu. Hachisu attacks the rain lookouts to get closer, she is surprised to be assisted by hadaebou. Back in the village, hachisu, rui, utsutsu and namemba plan to rescue hibiki. In a quiet moment during the preparations, gorone and namemba recall their first meeting. Later, namemba and hachisu plant explosives in the murakumo's path to stop it, but they are ineffective. Again they meet hadaebou, and this time namemba and hachisu reluctantly agree to work with him. Elsewhere, hachiro encounters itaru who manages to trap him within her destiny's passage mirror. Meanwhile hadaebou and the three female iga ninjas scale the walls of the murakumo. Inside, hibiki awakens and sees someone from her past.
Mon, Apr 30, 2018
Hibiki realizes that the woman she sees is her mother oboro who blames kouga gennosuke for her fate. In a break from fighting the rain, rui surprisingly tells utsutsu that she loves her. While hadaebou scales the murakumo, hachiro is confronted by itaru's destiny's passage and rinne magoroku's adamantite tower, but he uses his dojutsu and they withdraw. Meanwhile namemba recalls her youth and time with rui, and their escape when their village was attacked. Hadaebou finally reaches tadanaga, and tries to convince him to return to edo.
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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.
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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, May 28, 2018
Rui and utsutsu find neiri chiou, and rei manages to stab him. However, after they leave, his body heals itself and they encounter him again, with his demon god displaying the wounds neiri chiou sustained himself. They then meet shichigen who is being controlled by itaru. Meanwhile, namemba returns to the murakumo with explosives and meets hadaebou who offers to help her. Inside, shichigen, under the control of itaru, attacks rui and utsutsu, but rui manages to reach through to him and he stabs himself with his katana, which simultaneously does the same to neiri chiou. Utsutsu then severs the head of the old joujinshuu. At the top of the murakumo, hachiro is working to break joujin's control over hibiki, when hadaebou bursts in, attacking rinne magoroku. Then, as rui and utsutsu race to the top of the murakumo, neiri chiou makes one last attempt to kill the two girls as his demon god finally succumbs to the wounds neiri chiou received and he appears to fall to his death.
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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, Jun 11, 2018
Nobunaga attacks hachiro, and during the swordfight hachiro uses his ouka. Nobunaga stabs himself, but there is no blood and he does not die. Namemba jumps to their aid, enveloping nobunaga in cloth and setting off an explosion, but at the cost of her own life. As the smoke clears, nobunaga appears to be still alive, but tadanaga's consciousnesses fights him for control of the body and he severs his own head to finally thwart nobunaga's plans. As hachiro and hibiki flee, kujaku uses his last bit of energy to smash his inverted halberd of time, but rinne magoroku uses his adamantite tower to counteract the effect, causing the three of them to be caught in a timeless space. Rinne still wants revenge and attacks hachiro with his twin blades, but hachiro manages to defeat him. Hachiro and hibiki try to find a way out. They follow an apparition of shaizou and leap into an apparent abyss. They then see a vision of the murakumo setting fire to edo, and the joujin with his joujinshuu watching it burn, but they do not recognize the two ninja. Hachiro and hibiki are left wondering where they really are.
Mon, Jun 18, 2018
In the alternate world, hachiro and hibiki easily defeat the joujinshuu because they already know their techniques, leaving only joujin standing. They use their ouka to defeat joujin, and hachiro kills him. Hachiro plans to leave hibiki, but she cuts her eyes, so he will stay with her. However, joujin is not dead, surviving because of the power of tenzen within him. Joujin cuts hachiro, but hachiro manages to use his ouka to awaken tenzen's hatred for hachiro to force joujin to kill himself before hachiro dies. Some time later, the blind hibiki is present at the early days of training of the young iga ninja. Joujin re-appears, resurrected again by tenzen, and he proposes to rape hibiki so that their bloodlines will merge and continue. However the spirit of hachiro within hibiki emerges and cuts joujin to pieces, finally killing both joujin and tenzen.