Audience reviews
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NerdicWarrior
Oh Ninja Resurrection, how much I wanted to forget you even exist. And yet here you are reminding me.
Again.
Ninja Resurrection, or Makai Tenshou (Demon Resurrection) in Japan, is another crappy little direct to video ultra violence title that I'm sure nobody would have even noticed at first glance if it weren't for ADV Films, the licencors for this anime in the west advertising it as a sequel to Ninja Scroll, which it has absolutely nothing to do with other than having a protagonist named Jubei, based on the historical samurai Jubei Yagu.
In fact the OVA failed to sell in Japan, leading to the cancellation of it's production after a meager two episodes, ending on an unsatisfactory cliff hanger.
Based on a single volume manga by Getter Robo co-creator Ken Ishikawa, Ninja Resurrection is…
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I'm going to say it right off the bat, Makai Tenshou or Ninja Resurrection is by far the worst anime I have ever seen. Sure there might be objectively worse anime out there from a visual or technical standpoint, but in terms of sheer repulsiveness Makai Tenshou by far the last anime I ever want to see again.
First things first this anime is NOT a sequel to Ninja Scroll, another gory 90s ninja anime that came out a few years before, despite the fact that the makers of Makai Tenshou intentionally styled the cover art the same way and named the main character Jubei after the protagonist of the other film. In short even the producers new they had to falsely market this anime in order to get anyone to watch it.
The story (if you could call it that) follows Shimabara Rebellion, an actual hist…
Read at the sourceBeard_Of_Serpico
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.
It's bad.
Skip this and watch Ninja Scroll again, it's still awesome.
Read at the sourceRoboKeaton
Ninja resurrection is based on Futaro Yamada's novel Makai Tenshō (魔界転生, 1967) Yagyū Jūbei Trilogy #2 - adapted to film in 1981, 1996 and 2003, to anime in 1997 and to various manga.(Wikipedia)
A lot of people has been lucky or unlucky to be exposed to Ninja Scroll before Ninja Resurrection, for the later ones, it drives them to root for Jubei's character on those series.
From my background the only precedent I had to Jubei was Samurai Shodown, where SNK does not land an absolute story to the character, and as a video game, everyone will have more flexibily adopt the character.
Ninja resurrection in my opinion incorporates elements that other samurai/ninja/bushido series completely oversee:
- A "historical" intro narrative (along together with the voice actor in the english dubbing)
- T…
Read at the sourceStarfleeting
For the longest time, I have wanted to watch this because I thought it was connected to Ninja Scroll ( a movie I love). I remember seeing the preview/trailer for it on one of my Manga studio vhs tapes and was all "I must watch that someday!!!" Doesn't help that even the lettering for the title was done in the same style.
Later, after the internet had grown more and streaming and videos became way more prevalent, I found out the "lead" character was indeed named "Jubei". Just not "Kibagami". Which... didn't bode well. But I still wanted to watch it because the trailer still looked pretty good. All dark and atmospheric. Could still be worth watching, right?
So, jump to present-day and by now I finally found time to watch it - ALL TWO EPISODES - and was left going "what the fuck was this s…
Read at the sourceDenizu
I knew nothing about Makai Tenshou except that a lot of people who had seen it were either disappointed because they thought it was a sequel to Ninja Scroll, or disturbed by the amount of violence and gore they had to endure in just two 35 minute episodes. Given that it only comprises of two episodes, I was expecting a short, straightforward and rushed story, like Curse of the Yoma or something, and that would have been perfect if that had been the case. Seems to me like they had more episodes planned but the reception was just so bad that they didn't even bother to keep going.
Now, that doesn't mean Makai Tenshou, or Ninja Resurrection, is not....enjoyable. I enjoyed myself, although I admit I could have chosen something better to waste my limited free time. The story is decent, not grea…
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Lately I have been scouring the back end of this site’s top rated anime ranking for some of the worst, most obscure anime out there. It is in my search for strange and profoundly terrible anime that I discovered Ninja Resurrection. This short two part OVA tells about the war between Christians and the Tokugawa Shogunate in the 1600s, and much death and suffering ensues. Eventually the conflict escalates to a ritual involving the resurrection of Satan himself, where even more people die. The most significant thing about Ninja Resurrection is its gratuitous ultraviolence. Left and right people get dismembered and decapitated. Blood sprays and heads roll. It isn't particularly good gore either. It's too much, it doesn't stand out. It tries so hard to be impressive and I'm not shocked at all b…
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Ninja Resurrection has become an infamous benchmark for terrible anime, branded as a waste of potential at its best, or an offensive and mean-spirited story at its worst.
Starting off with the good, Ninja Resurrection does have good production values. The animation stands out with its great direction, using color and darkness to their fullest potential, painting the scenery and characters in stark shadows that add to the dark setting. I could practically compare it to German expressionism, a style of film-making that enhances the mood of a story by using absurd angles, non-realistic set-designs, and strange characters.
The soundtrack fits the mood perfectly. You will hear classic Japanese flutes that could fit any martial arts series, trumpets signaling the coming of war, drums beating…
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The fact that MAL has over 400,000 users and only 2,000 have seen Ninja Resurrection is truly a disappointment. Ninja Resurrection is a title that EVERYONE should have to witness in order to consider yourself a true anime fan. Otherwise, you will you be missing a critical instrument with which to measure bad anime.
This is another one of those titles that was considered LEGENDARILY bad among the few American diehard otaku in the early to mid 1990s. My generation all watched Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon, and DBZ regardless of whether or not we considered ourselves anime fans. We weren't even aware that those WERE anime, although we were vaguely aware that DBZ and Pokemon came from Japan. If you were an actual ANIME fan, you walked your ass down to the local video store and rent…
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NO! No, No, No, noooooo. Do not watch this. When people say they watched something that just wasted their time, this is how you will feel. Like you have literally had the physical embodiment of time ripped out of your soul. This was so awful. The violence. For many of us, violence is one of the reasons we watch anime. Almost everyone that views this complains about the violence. What you need to understand is that it is not the amount of violence that makes this terrible its the senseless irrelevance of it all. They desperately used shock value to attempt to obtain viewers. ~Oh no, this shinobi is entangling me in his mobile intestines~ Yeah, thats not cool, its stupid. For a moment I was starting to believe that this was some kind of Ninja Scroll parody. I mean the whole thing is goofy. C…
Read at the sourceTwoSoxs
Being a fan of old school anime I just had to watch Ninja Resurrection.
There's plenty of action and samurai hack and slash.
I'll be willing to bet, it even has blood and gore enough to satisfy Dracula himself.
The OVA has some interesting characters that could really have turned it into a great watch.
Horror / blood & gore fans might find some of the scenes interesting, I know I did. Their not interesting enough to make me give the OVA a decent rating though.
The plot is so lacking that you end up wondering WTH you've just spent time watching. Why you ask? Brief explanation... without spoiling anything... IF you really feel the urge to watch it.
Old school - check
Action / fighting / samurai - check
Blood and gore - check
Plot - FAIL
Background music - Semi fail
Ending - FAIL
Don't…
Read at the sourceTremor
This is an excellent ova, its bad they didn't continue doing it, i heard a lot of people saying i thought it has something related to ninja scroll, please don't think just because the font is like each other its gonna be related, first you have to investigate a little about what you are going to watch.
I like very much this ovas, because in the bottom this is a real story they just took it and add some gore and mystical ninjas, this is one of japan real stories of feudalism, so i insist first investigate instead of saying its bad, cause its very good animation.
If want to know more from this just search for the movies, Ninja Resurrection there are a lot of them with people, actually there is one with sonny chiba as yagyu jubei. So just watch all of the history behind anime and you'll und…
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There comes a time in every anime watcher’s life that he or she must stare pure horror in the face and, as much as one may not want to, watch an anime that makes their skin crawl. My friends, this was my time.
I can honestly say that this anime did have a decent introduction. The narration, read over stills of maps and old pictures, paints a picture of a potentially decent story. The instant the real animation starts, however, all of the hype is lost in a sea of dismembered corpses. When I say sea, I mean it. The amount of blood and gore in these 2 OVA alone is more than enough to almost give Berserk and Elfen Lied a run for their money; even two children are slaughtered and their decapitated heads are shown to the viewer. If you think that these action scenes are well animated, thi…
Read at the sourceAyria
There's really not much to say about this OVA, I rented it thinking I was getting something related to Ninja Scroll and instead I received a headache from trying to figure out how Jubei was suddenly missing an eye.
This was a gore-fest, which I don't necessarily have a problem with (I love Berserk, Elfen Lied, etc.) as long as I get some plot along with my disembodied heads. But not only was there gore but random violence against children, rape, satanic sacrifices, more rape, more innocent people getting slaughtered for no reason whatsoever... it gets annoying after about, oh, an hour of this.
I really wouldn't have minded this OVA so much if there was some point to it. I might actually say that I liked it, there was definitely a lot of potential, but in the end everything that happene…
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