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Basilisk Sequel Novels Get TV Anime, Manga
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A television anime adaptation of Masaki Yamada's Ōka Ninpōchō Basilisk Shinshō (Ōka Ninja Scrolls Basilisk New Chapter) novels has been green-lit. The anime's staff revealed a key visual. Tatsuya Shihira (Q, Robotics;Notes Revival Legacy) will also launch a manga adaptation in this year's 34th issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine on July 24.
The Basilisk: Ōka Ninpōchō novel is a sequel to Futaroh Yamada's original Kōga Ninpōchō (The Kouga Ninja Scrolls) novel. The story is set 10 years after Kōga Ninpōchō in 1626.
Futaroh Yamada debuted Kōga Ninpōchō in 1959, and Kodansha published Masaki Yamada's Ōka Ninpōchō Basilisk Shinshō sequel in 2015. Masaki Yamada's Shin-kun Genpōchō novel debuted in 2009. Haruo Koyama also released a manga adaptation of Futaroh Yamada's original novel in 1963, and Torao Asada launched the Kōga Ninpōchō: Aratame manga in 2003.
Futaroh Yamada's Kōga Ninpōchō novel inspired Masaki Segawa's manga adaptation in 2003. Del Rey and Kodansha Comics released the five-volume series in North America. Kodansha Comics describes the story:
The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years. But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?
Segawa's manga inspired the Basilisk television anime (seen above right) in 2005. Funimation released the series on home video in North America. The live-action SHINOBI - Heart Under Blade film premiered in 2005, and Funimation also released it on home video.
Source: Comic Natalie
