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The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls #1
Ｙ十Ｍ（ワイじゅうエム）～柳生忍法帖～ 1
江戸時代、徳川（とくがわ）三代将軍・家光（いえみつ）の世。会津藩主・加藤明成（かとうあきなり）に逆らったとされた会津藩元家老・堀主水（ほりもんど）一族は、高野山より東海道を江戸へと引かれていった。引いていくのは加藤家の配下、会津七本槍（あいずしちほんやり）と呼ばれる男たち。七本槍は堀の男たちに対し、「尼寺に逃げた堀一族の女たちに武士の情けで一目会わせてやる」と告げるが、その裏には、一族の男たちの前で堀の女たちを惨殺しようという恐ろしい企みがあった――。残虐七鬼vs.美女七人、未曾有の復讐劇が幕を明ける。
228 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 4, 2005
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About the author
Fūtarō Yamada
157 books32 followersFutaro Yamada (山田 風太郎 Yamada Fūtarō?, January 4, 1922 – July 28, 2001) was the pen name of Seiya Yamada (山田 誠也 Yamada Seiya?), a Japanese novel writer, famous for his ninja stories and mystery fiction based on japanese legends. He worked in genre of historical fiction, popularizing legendary characters, ninjas and supernatural abilities in his works. Thanks to him many historical characters weren't forgotten in our days.
In 1947, he wrote a mystery novel Daruma-tōge no Jiken (達磨峠の事件?, lit. "The Incident on Dharma Pass") and was awarded a prize by a novel magazine Houseki (宝石?). He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist. He wrote many ninja (忍法帖 Ninpōchō series) and mystery stories. Many of his works have been adapted for film, TV, manga, and anime.
In 1947, he wrote a mystery novel Daruma-tōge no Jiken (達磨峠の事件?, lit. "The Incident on Dharma Pass") and was awarded a prize by a novel magazine Houseki (宝石?). He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist. He wrote many ninja (忍法帖 Ninpōchō series) and mystery stories. Many of his works have been adapted for film, TV, manga, and anime.
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June 12, 2022
This is the beginning of a bloody tale of revenge. A corrupt and debauched feudal lord sends his retainers to subdue a rebel clan. The clan is destroyed and only seven women remain. These women gain the sympathy of a powerful patron who hires a samurai to train them to fight in order to get their revenge. This has a lot of blood, so it is not for the faint of heart.
October 24, 2016
Definitely loving the setting and art of this series. The dark story line is intriguing. I will look forward to reading more of this series.
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November 1, 2022The Yagyu ninja scrolls revenge of the hori clan, a mouthful of a name that is supposed to represent this interesting story. I say interesting of course, I don't think this story is any good, not really, I actually think this is a bad one, but the interesting part could of been stuck to any other mediocre story that I dropped from how dull they were, and that is my belief that a story should avoid being a dull mediocre story.
To start with, this story sees a samurai named Jyubei train 7 women in order to get their revenge on the 7 spears, men who killed those women's families. That's about it, a lot of other plot points are opened, but none are explored to any meaningful depths and only the revenge plot is concluded. And even that revenge plot is devoid of any weight, meaning, or any suspense. This story tried to make Jyubei a bad ass, but I can't help simply not giving a shit about Jyubei (who is as interesting as a wet tissue) or the 7 card board cut outs that are the women. The women have nothing to distinct them from one another except for maybe one of the women and a second one if you squint hard enough.
I don't care about this plot, and neither does this story. What I care about is how this story flip flops from a story I would drop from how dull it is, to a hilarious piece of garbage. And that is what kept me reading. This oscillation from an ok(barely) story, to a so bad that it is good one, to a simply bad one. I couldn't help but think to myself that my belief is right, there is definitely merit in a good and of course a great story, but there is also certainly merit in a horrible story as it is entertaining and could even be dissected. What surely has no merit is another mediocre story to trudge through.
To start with, this story sees a samurai named Jyubei train 7 women in order to get their revenge on the 7 spears, men who killed those women's families. That's about it, a lot of other plot points are opened, but none are explored to any meaningful depths and only the revenge plot is concluded. And even that revenge plot is devoid of any weight, meaning, or any suspense. This story tried to make Jyubei a bad ass, but I can't help simply not giving a shit about Jyubei (who is as interesting as a wet tissue) or the 7 card board cut outs that are the women. The women have nothing to distinct them from one another except for maybe one of the women and a second one if you squint hard enough.
I don't care about this plot, and neither does this story. What I care about is how this story flip flops from a story I would drop from how dull it is, to a hilarious piece of garbage. And that is what kept me reading. This oscillation from an ok(barely) story, to a so bad that it is good one, to a simply bad one. I couldn't help but think to myself that my belief is right, there is definitely merit in a good and of course a great story, but there is also certainly merit in a horrible story as it is entertaining and could even be dissected. What surely has no merit is another mediocre story to trudge through.
April 15, 2021
Decent ninja manga based In the Feudal Japan era! The action was pretty awesome but the plot/story was pretty dull 👌😁❤️
March 15, 2022
Bomb, woman get killed and revenge is on. Lets see who these gals become and if they can rip the shogun and his goons
April 1, 2023
4.5 - Really good...
October 30, 2025
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls Vol. 1
Having been to Japan last year, this story was interesting. I was at the locations shown in this book which added depth to the text.
Having been to Japan last year, this story was interesting. I was at the locations shown in this book which added depth to the text.
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