Well, it is just a novel and an anime and it is only this author's opinion, or this author's particular view for his story, so NO OFFENSE TAKEN for fans of Yeyasu Tokugawa to many.the best Shogun in Japan history. For history lovers, I also need to give a small warning: In this anime, in opposition to what most historians and fans of anime and Japan history think, here, Yeyasu Tokugawa is depicted as a villain. Even when this story and its fighting is completely embedded in fantasy, it is important to say that the Ninjutsu styles of both the Iga and the Kouga actually exist in real life with the names of Kouga-Ryu and Iga-Ryu. Basilisk is a story set in the early days of the Tokugawa period and narrates the fight between two clans of ninja warriors. Note: Most of my reviews contain spoilers, but I always try that none of these spoilers "can actually spoil" any important surprise in the narrative arc, so you can read without worrying.
#Review anime basilisk series
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles. Overall this is worth watching if you like action anime where characters just get on with the fighting rather than talking to their enemies and individual fights are not stretched over several episodes. The action scenes don't shy away from the brutality of the war and some of them are a little disturbing but not gratuitously so. The various skills the fighters possess are imaginative and entertaining and the characters are well designed and fleshed out we get occasional flashback showing us the characters before the war so we learn more about them and occasionally get to see characters who have died once more even if I did occasionally get confused with who was who occasionally! The animation is pretty good and done in a style that suits the story. As the numbers get whittled down inevitably favoured characters will be killed off some the viewer will have grown to care about while others will be seen as getting what they deserved either way this is not a happy series it is a tragedy that gets darker as time goes on leading to a poignant final confrontation.
The differing powers the fighters possess make the battles interesting as we learn what method each will use and how it will be countered. The matter is complicated by the fact that two members of the rival clans Oboro Iga and Gennosuke Kouga are in love that won't stop them fighting for their clans but fighting each other may prove more difficult. These aren't ordinary man and women they each have powers that make them hard to defeat.
Then the treaty is ended and each tribe selects ten ninjas who will fight until the other side is eliminated. In feudal Japan the Iga and Kouga tribes have hated each other for four hundred years only a treaty forcing them not to fight prevents them from going to war.
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