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The story of a young boy Kamui growing up to become a ninja. His life of training ends when he realizes that he doesn't want to be a ninja and decides to become a nukenin (outlaw ninja), someone who is not affiliated with an organization and is hunted for leaving the clan...
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Martial Arts, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 05, 2018
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Part of the \"Myths and Legends\" series, depicts the endless life of human beings since ancient times on a grand scale without a single line of dialogue. In the primitive times, when man did not even have language, a woman wanders in the savanna, between the jungle and desert. She expresses all her emotions with her whole body and lives in the world of the weak and the strong, creates two mud dolls. However, she is killed by a hunter who stabs her with a spear, and the mud dolls, bathed in her blood, transform into two infants...
Genre(s): Historical, Action, Survival, Supernatural
Updated Time: Jul 14, 2022
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Ninja Chronicles: The Legend of Kagemaru
A historical manga that depicts people who defy fate and live by faith in a world of war. (from MangaUpdates): The classic, long ninja saga. Many intertwined themes and many characters. It is a series that is as well a traditional samurai tale as an attempt of Shirato to uncover the role of revolting peasants in feudal Japan. It was adapted into a film by Nagisa Oshima in 1966. Kagemaru is a fictional samurai, the hero of the story, aiding the peasants in their struggle for life. Nobunaga Oda, the historical 16th century warlord is his opponent.
Genre(s): Historical, Action, Ninja, Martial Arts, Samurai, Adventure, Military, Drama
Updated Time: Nov 19, 2022
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Part of the Myths and Legends Series, Shirato tackles the tale of Pentheus, as well as others of his bloodline, such as Europa and Cadmus. Europa, daughter of the Phoenician King Agenor, is abducted by Zeus as part of a ploy to take down the Python. Cadmus, her brother, searches far and wide for her, and eventually reaches the literal ends of the earth. Fate has more in store, for him, however, as the interests of gods and men intertwine throughout his family, until it reaches his ill-fated grandson, Pentheus - who threatens to go against what his lineage has built up, and stood for. Also includes Shirato\'s adaptation of the tale of Caeneus, the woman who transformed into a man impervious to weapons, never to be raped again by another man.
Genre(s): Historical, Monsters, Psychological, Sexual Violence, Philosophical, Gore, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural, Adaptation, Tragedy
Updated Time: Jan 15, 2024
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