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Ninja Resurrection was originally marketed as a kind of sequel to the excellent Ninja Scroll and aside from featuring a character named Jubei it has no relation.

The animation is decent although not as impressive as Ninja Scroll with some really cool looking fight scenes, it's brutally violent and the voice acting is pretty good but the story is almost non existent (but somehow still a bit confusing, how does that happen?) and it all feels pretty pointless. I was looking forward to seeing this but i will likely never watch it again.

Skip this and watch Ninja Scroll again, it's still awesome.

4 out of 10 for the animation. It's true that there's lots of action-packed anime out there that's big on flash and light on story. But this movie raped my eyes. This movie forcibly shoved unwanted imagery into my skull. I started watching it because I believed the slugline on the DVD box, that it was a sequel to NINJA SCROLL, which of course isn't true. I had to watch the whole thing, because I had to see how it ended. Any minute, and it would get good, it would show purpose. But it didn't END. It's one thing to fill it with the most graphic depictions of gore the animators could conjure, but it's another to have it all mean NOTHING in the end. A pointless, nihilistic waste of shelf space.

i have to give credit to the promoters of this anime.they were very smart indeed.they led the public to believe that this anime was the sequel to the awesome Ninja Scroll when in fact it is a totally different anime altogether.just look at the original japanese titles for proof.they knew that if they linked this anime with Ninja Scroll more people would watch or buy it.and it worked.they even went so far as to use the exact same font as Ninja Scroll on the front cover!!

but the sad fact is,this isnt a sequel to Ninja Scroll.first off,the main character here is Jyubei Yagyu (that is the proper spelling of this character by the way) and not Jubei Kibagami,as it is in Ninja Scroll.Secondly,the events portrayed in this anime are based on actual historical events - although somewhat exaggerated.

so did i like it??ummm in a word...no. the story started off being kinda interesting but then got bad and then horrible with the abrupt ending.i kept on expecting ADV to announce a third part in this series that would explain everything but it never and probably wont happen.its a shame though because this anime had alot of potential but just failed..the producers thought more about delivering looks rather than substance.how can you possibly successfully tell a story about a historical period in japan in just 45mins??..

i give the anime a 4/10...but only because the animation and battle scenes were pretty cool...albeit a little violent

This is not the sequel of Ninja Scroll,the main Character has the same name of the hero of NS but it´s not the same guy.

Actually it really was a period in the feudal Japan where Cristhians were persecuted,this religion was prohibited in that time in Japan,of course the wars between sects wasn´t so bloody and insane like the ones showed on this anime.

I think Ninja Scroll is much better than this one,recommended only for bloody-gore movie fans.

I really like anime and Ninja Scroll was something I remember very fondly. I had bought this a while ago and just came around watching it. This apparently is 2 episodes as the DVD says, but it feels overall like a teaser. I guess everything continues even after it ends (unless the world explodes at the end of a movie, there could be something you could tell in a sequel) ... but this really feels like a very sudden and abrupt end, that almost makes no sense.

I acutally rewatched or clicked on the DVD I own, just to make sure I didn't miss something. I also checked connections here and couldn't find anything coming after this. Though considering the rating I might try the movie this is based on. Maybe there is more to unpack and understand.

One more thing, because I saw this in two other reviews: this is not for kids! This is ultra violent and it has mature situations in it, as it states on the DVD cover too by the way. So maybe reconsider watching this or not - and don't blame the movie for being the way it is. Know what you're about to watch or stop watching if its not your type of movie anyways