The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls

Yagyu Ninpo Cho: Revenge of the Hori Clan (Jap. Y十M ~柳生 忍 法帖~, Y jū M - Yagyū Ninpo Jō ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Masaki Segawa based on the novel of the writer Yagyū Nimpōchō Futaro Yamada. Segawa set previously with Basilisk successfully a work Yamada in comic form to. The previously published since 2005 Ninja Manga comprises about 2,000 pages and is aimed primarily at an adult male readership, so the His - genus can be assigned.

Action

In Japan, there is the time of the Tokugawa shogunate of Prince ( daimyo ) of Aizu, Akinari Katō, with cruel hand over his country.

Due to rising crime and corruption instigates a rebellion Hori Mondo. This fails, whereupon he and his followers to flee. Three years later, Kato feels the men on at a monastery and lets them using the "Seven Spears " take special combat abilities captured ninjas. Even the women of the Hori clan be tracked. You have been hiding in a nunnery, which may not be entered by men. The "Seven Spears " ignore this law and penetrate into the monastery. There they commit among the women of the Hori clan a cruel massacre, which is only stopped when Princess Sen, the sister of the current shogun, arrives. Only seven women survive the massacre, including Chie, the daughter of clan chief Hori Mondo.

Incensed about the murders of women committed Princess Sen the fighter Jubee Mitsuyoshi, which is to teach the women in combat, so that they can take revenge on the "Seven spears ".

Publications

Yagyu Ninpo Cho: Revenge of the Hori clan appears in Japan in April 2005 in separate chapters in the manga magazine Young Magazine in which, among other things, × × × holic is published by CLAMP. The Kodansha publishing house brings out these individual chapters in edited volumes, of which ten previously published.

The Heyne -Verlag published the first four anthologies from April 2007 to February 2008 in Germany. The publication was discontinued for unsatisfactory paragraphs. In South Korea, Yagyu Ninpo Cho appears: Revenge of the Hori clan since August 2006 from the publisher Bookbox. Del Rey brings the series since October 2007 under the title The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls in North America out.