Makai Tenshou (Ninja Resurrection)

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Synonyms: Ninja Resurrection: The Revenge of Jubei, Makai Tensho

Japanese: 魔界転生

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 27, 1998 to Mar 27, 1998

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: ADV Films

Studios: Phoenix Entertainment

Source: Novel

Genres: Action, Supernatural

Themes: Historical, Samurai

Duration: 40 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 5.19¹ (scored by 3,342 users)

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Ranked: #11591²

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Popularity: #6986

Members: 6,951

Favorites: 7

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Ranked #11591Popularity #6986Members 6,951

OVAPhoenix Entertainment

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Get ready for a nightmarish journey through faith and betrayal as the infamous Jubei Yagyu wields his deadly blades against the forces of good and evil alike. In an orgy of unbelievable savagery, the armies of the Shogun give no quarter as they ruthlessly slaughter their enemies. Trapped on the rocky isthmus of Amakusa, the faithful await divine aid as the demon stirs in their midst. Desperate for vengeance, a Child of Heaven becomes the emissary of Hell.

Tortured by visions of Amakusa's final hour, legendary swordsman Jubei Yagyu returns to his ancestral home seeking respite from the bloody duties of a feudal retainer. Life in the village of Yagyu possesses a serenity ill-befitting days of armed rebellion and unholy alliance. For Jubei the tranquility is far too transparent, and soon, chilling rumors reach him. Four dead heroes renew their claim to life, feeding on the fear and violence of the age. Forced to take up the sword once more, Jubei returns to the path of vengeance and damnation in Ninja Resurrection!

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Yagyuu, Juubei

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Genda, Tesshou
Japanese

Amakusa Tokisada, Shirou

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Okiayu, Ryoutarou
Japanese

Yataro

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Mashiba, Mari
Japanese

Okyo

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Okamoto, Maya
Japanese

Mataemon, Araki

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Wakamoto, Norio
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Greenfield, Matt

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Date, Kensei

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Satou, Keiichi

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Saitou, Hisashi

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May 10, 2008

L-sama

Not Recommended

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 ...

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Mar 20, 2015

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

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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 rented any random anime VHS you could find from the paltry selection available. There was no crunchyroll or ability to watch anime online, so that was really all you could do to see an anime that wasn't Pokemon or one of the 5 or so anime available on American TV. Some of those old anime VHS tapes turned out to be good like GITS and Akira, but most of the anime available to us at that time was absolute SHIT that was licensed for dirt cheap because no Japanese studios wanted those properties. That is one reason that the anime community in the US was VERY small at that time. Ninja Resurrection was marketed to US otaku as being a sort of sequel to the gorefest action movie Ninja Scroll, which was ( believe it or not) one of the better anime titles available in the US at that time. Unfortunately, Ninja Resurrection actually has NOTHING to do with Ninja Scroll. In fact, the original Japanese title translates to: "Demon Resurrection, the Portrait of Hell". This movie doesn't even HAVE ninjas in it! What does it have instead? Really bad voice acting and perhaps the stupidest plot in anime history!

Jesus Christ resurrects in Japan for some reason in the 1600s and attempts to lead a Christian revolt against the Tokugawa Shogunate. However, the Shogunate sends its best samurai to slay Jesus and defeat the Christian rebels. It turns out that Jesus is being manipulated by an evil Japanese general who says that God doesn't exist, but Satan does. Despite the miracle powers that Jesus shows off on multiple occasions in this anime, supposedly through the direct help of God. Our hero is Jubei, the samurai who is actually loosely based on a real life historical figure. Jubei tries to convince Jesus that he is being used, but Jesus is too stupid to realize this and attacks Jubei by transforming into a giant crystal dragon. This anime is where TVtropes.com got the phrase "crystal dragon Jesus" to describe EXTREMELY bullshit religious allusions and faux symbolism. After the EPIC line "Yeah, sic em Jesus!" is delivered by the evil general, Jubei fights and defeats Jesus by impaling him with his katana through a bell tower. This allows the general to move on to the next step in his plan. In turns out that there was some prophesy where if Jesus dies full of hatred after getting murdered by humans, he will resurrect next time as Satan. However, right after Satan is reborn...the OVA ends because the first 2 volumes sold virtually zero copies in Japan. Holy SHIT does this anime suck!

There is one thing that redeems this anime though. It is VERY entertainingly bad. Not only is the jumbled mess of a plot one of the stupidest things you are ever likely to see, but the English dub is HORRIBLE! Jesus is voiced by the same guy who also voiced Sonic in the first Sonic anime movie, and then never did anything again!

I'm tired of punk reviewers who don't actually know anything about anime saying how Bleach is the worst anime of all time, or Elfen Lied is the da worst animu EVAR! That is like someone who considers himself a car expert saying that the Ford F-150 truck is the worst automobile ever made. It has plenty flaws, there are better trucks out there, but to rant on about how EPICLY bad the F-150 is would quickly reveal to anyone with a brain that you don't actually know SHIT about cars! Ninja Resurrection is to anime what the Zaporozhets is to cars. Any car fanatic who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about will know THAT is a bad car. Any anime fan should know that Ninja Resurrection, is one of the epitomes of shitty anime!

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Mar 26, 2008

Ayria

Not Recommended

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.

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