"That'd be like us writing a story about Joseph Smith, who really had mormon powers wrecking all kinds of shit down in Utah, and the only one who can save us is DAVY FUCKING CROCKET!" ...Fucking sold.
How ironic. This Jube samurai character is clearly meant to be the hero, but ultimately ends up being the VILLAIN because he essentially precipitates the birth of the anti-christ and never gets the chance to save the world because the production got shut down. Well, I bet the writers didn't see THAT shit coming.
@@ellnats But this is Japan we are talking about. Japan doesn't give a shit for any religion but Shintoism or any other local faiths. Outside groups are tolerated at best. So I don't see an anti-religious project warrent being shut down half-way due to it's mere existance. I mean, look at SMT.
@dWatt if I remember correctly, the reason why the anime was cancelled because a murder that happened was similar to the ninja resurrection anime in one of the episode. as for the murder in question, they never explained what was the “murder” case that lead to it’s cancellation. I try to find out what the murder case that is similar to the anime and found nothing at the time, for all we know it may have been one of the death scenes in the missing episode 3 or 4. (The ninja resurrection anime was meant to be a 4 episodes/parts long show/movie)
@Green-Raccoon777 Even Buddhism is subject to Japanese interpretation. They even rename all of the characters in the 3 Kingdoms Era in China in their own history. Everyone gets a Japanese name.
This is a pet peeve of my so keep that in mind. Saying Jesus was fiction is just flat out stupid, you can deny his divinity all you want. But to say at the very least their was not Jewish Reformer in the time of the of the first century who was crucified by the Romans and perceived as many to be the son of the Jewish god is idiotic. It's like claiming the Buddha, Mohammad, Confucius, Joseph Smith, or Christopher Hitchens didn't exist.
Pretty much the general opinion of it from the day ADV sicced it upon the west. There are way worse animes out there, and even some more controversial in terms of content, but there aren't many that are as flat out universally despised. The only way you could like this thing is the way Sage says he does: fascination.
the story for this series long predates Ninja Scroll. it's based on a novel that combined fiction with historical events. the original title translated was Samurai Resurrection, or Samurai Reincarnation, not Ninja Resurrection. the anime isn't the first adaptation of it, the story as has been done several times as live action feature films, most recently in 2003. but the best known version came out in 1981, staring Sonny Chiba as Jubei Yagyu, and Tomisaburo Wakayama playing his father Munenori Yagyu. audiences in the west would known Wakayama as Lone Wolf from the Lone Wolf & Cub film series, and they would know Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo from Kill Bill. in Japan however, Jubei Yagyu was Sonny Chiba's most famous recurring role, having played him many times in film and television, and Jubei Yagyu was an historical figure. in Japan, Jubei Yagyu is way more famous than Jubei from Ninja Scroll.
As a practicing Catholic, not only is this anime only the second I've seen that directly references the Shimbara Rebellion, the first being Samurai Champloo, but it manages to out-crazy Samurai Champloo. And that had a St. Francis Xavier caricature in the form of his grandson, in which he appears as Jewish, cross-eyed as fuck, a lech, runs a underground club that has massive statues of the Crucifixion (with one statue of Jesus slinging the Cross over his shoulder like he's Paul Bunyan), wields a giant shotgun/blunderbuss hybrid, and is also a Japanese con artist. Fucking. 10/10. Seriously, Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights ain't got jack on this burning tire pile of madness.
GET HIM JESUS! CUT HIM DOWN! Oh my God! That is single-handedly the funniest line I must have heard in an anime! I think I have to say that in real life now!
Ninja Resurrection is an adaptation of a Japanese novel called Makai Tensho. You can find an article about it on Wikipedia. I don't think the book has been published in English, but there HAVE been several live-action films based on it. If you want to get an idea on how the story of this anime MIGHT have ended, then you can check out those films at least. Fun fact: The book's main villain WAS a ninja who used to serve Amakusa Shirou & he only became a ninja to learn how to summon demons & create undead. The synopsis says he brought back BOTH Jubei Yagyu & Amakusa Shirou as undead in the book, but I don't know what their roles in the original story were after that. All I have to go on is the synopsis & that's it.
I read a little about this too. Going off what I know and this synopsis, I can see why it failed with audiences, as it seems to be going really fast and loose with the source material.
@@rhett8819 Most adaptations of the story play fast & loose with it. There have been several live-action films based on it. Shirou Amakusa is usually the ultimate villain in all of them as opposed to his underling in the story.
I had this DVD on my shelf for over a year and on a whim I decided to watch it with a group of friends of mine for a marathon of "so bad they're good films" but because our host lost our original tapes I decided to put this one on instead and neither of us have ever heard of this batshit insane anime. Needless to say we were mesmerized by the experience and shocked it ended without an ending. *WE ACTUALLY WANTED TO SEE HOW IT ENDS.*
18:55 *I WILL WRITE THAT STORY EVEN IF EVERY JACKASS ON TUMBLR SHOWS UP AT MY DOOR WITH A NOOSE IN HAND.* Good Lord, that is *golden*, Sage. THANK YOU for inspiring me!
Brian Seaman In the mean time, here's something I wrote for my Cinematic Storytelling class: www.fanfiction.net/s/11018549/1/Supergirl-Returns WARNING: this story is nuts.
Rodney 2x4 It's even funnier when you realize that's something he actually said, in all seriousness, to an entire audience. And we bowed for the privilege of hearing him say it.
So.. I just learned that there was a Christian Rebellion from an Anime that is all over the place when it comes to historical fact.. Something is very wrong with that.
Well.. is it historically inaccurate? I mean Hentai is just Anime Porn if we wanna keep this simple. So I mean, why not give out a bit of free content for when you're cleaning up after all that fappin'? XD
Christianity has big part in conflict of Sengoku Jidai in XV-XVI century Japan. But outside that, creators literally don't know shit about that religion. It literally look like someone pull random history book, and in end probably don't know even that Christianity is true religion.
Wes Roth Oh, it's accurate just weird since it uses footage from all these big well know animes in history like Astro-Boy and Guyver! Just weird to to say you learned something about anime history from the dark seedy underbelly of it! XD
It’s such a shame that Amakusa Shiro, a teenager who led a rebellion against religious oppression and was executed for it is almost exclusively interpreted in modern Japanese media as evil incarnate. Really showing your extreme xenophobia, Japan.
The 1981 movie adaptation by Kinji Fukasaku kind of showed that Shiro lost faith in God after seeing all of his followers get butchered and basically went to the devil as a means of revenge against the Shogunate. That adaptation makes the Shogunate look just as bad there considering they behead women and children. It didn't really feel like Shiro was evil incarnate there.
@@ericcaulfield4477 And the 1996 and 2003 adaptations. OKAY, so this is based on the novel Makai Tensho by Futaro Yamada. And yeah, it *is* technically a sequel to Ninja Scroll, as much as the anime Basilisk is a sequel to Ninja Scroll and the movie Shinobi: Heart Under Blade is... and a LOT of other movies, tv shows and manga. Look the author up. He's basically the guy's stuff was popular, working in evergreen public domain historical figures like Hattori Hanzo, Jubei Yagyu, and more.
@@ericcaulfield4477 No need to apologize- but it just goes to show how popular and prolific the guy was. ... with or without magic vagina bubbles. (NO. SERIOUSLY.)
like fr i saw nothing wrong with this guy, thru this fever dream ass OVA i learnt something new about japan's history, and to be honest, i cheered for him, but that's maybe just my (ex-)christian solidarity (i used to be kinda religious in my childhood)
I still love how they animated Shiro while he was freaking out (I did watch the full episodes of it). Full on cartoony insanity. I did get the 'soccer' fan joke though. Unfortunately.
You forgot to mention they also had another historical figure who is the old man with white hair, Musashi Miyamoto. If I'm correct, Musashi NEVER met or knew Jubei Yagyu, nor was he a ninja, either.
I just found out that there are a couple of Japanese live action movies that pretty much have the exact same plot! Jubei Yagyu fights Amakusa Shiro who has been reincarnated as Satan. Apparantly it was popular enough to warrant a sequel, both were directed by the same guy and the titles are known as "Reborn From Hell". They even got Martin Burke to reprise his role as Amakusa. ...LOOK IT UP! ITS TOTALLY REAL!
I wasn't able to find an anime reborn from hell (found a few unrelated to this anime live action ones based in a similar story but that's besides the point) I did find the actual sequel to this it's called ninja scroll hell spawn .
I only know that most Japanese even don't mention Jesus, and probably don't understand idea of Messiah/Christ outside generic "savior" or champion of heaven. I could bring some Shin Megami Tensei reference, but creators of that show don't know literally nothing about Christianity, so even that would be pointless.
Well the anime did state that this person could also become Satan. Going from Alucard to Satan feels more natural than starting with Jesus to get there
TheRezro I would add that they also have storie a where a normal human I'm with great power can flip on a dime and usually if not always screw up. Human born from a god would just be magic human.
The first time I watched this review a while back, i thought the voice actor sounded familiar when Shiro goes off the deep end. It's just a shame the clip of him freaking out wasn't followed up with "SHUT UP, TAILS!!" Would have gone perfectly. Also, "GET HIM, JESUS!" cracks me up every time I hear that line.
I remember watching this anime when I was real little and just getting into anime in the very late 90's, early 2000's. I had picked it up from block buster, which at the time was my only source of anime, and it fucked me up and almost put me off of anime for good. But I chock that up to my age at the time and I had forgotten about it, till now. Now I fell like I could rewatch it cause I can handle it better now that I'm older.
My favorite part of this is hearing Jubei's crazy father. Thinking he's as bat-shit psychotic, manipulative, hypocritical and murderous as Heihachi Mishima. And realizing it's the same voice actor from the Tekken anime.
The funny thing is that the father has the same voice actor as Heihachi in the dub of Tekken: The Motion Picture. Every actor has a calling and his is to play batshit insane dads.
I just had to comment.. thank you for showing me this crazy as fuck anime. I never laughed so hard or reacted so much to any of your videos until now. I consider it an early birthday gift. Thank you Sage.
19:09 not sure what this whole rant was about, maybe it's the anti theist in me, but everything that yyou have described, including the whole fighting joseph smith with davy crocket, that sounds AWESOME, might actually watch it now.
SharpmanPrime01 Well, there is ONE problem. You know exactly what I'm going to do, and I know exactly what *YOU'RE* going to do. No, I won't stop quoting that terrible, yet awesome OVA.
When the Japanese handle Christianity it's always laughable. I only know of one exception and I suspect that exception is due to Mr Shusako Endo was himself a devout Roman Catholic. Consequently if you want a serious treatment of Christianity in Japan during this sort of time period, Silence and The Samurai are great novels.
For the most part, for works of fiction, they don't take any religion that seriously. Christianity is fair game, not unlike how Americans works use Norse and Greek mythology.
Bang it Sage After many years I had finally manage to forget the disappointment I had with ninja resurrection's ending but now after watching this its all returned....Thanks for that.... lol nice vid man, I look forward to watching the rest of what you have.
I'm pretty sure the narration meant that 'Tenchi' is what they call God. "... the son of our god Tenchi" Oh, wait, seems I have gone over my daily allotment of pointless nitpicking. I can hear the crotch-wolves coming. Gotta run!
Every time Amakusa Shiro is portrayed in an anime, it's a weird fucking thing. Between here, Sins of the Sisters and Fate/Apocrypha, there's so much insanity to unpack, but my favorite is undoubtedly SotS Shiro with that voice that can only come from a third testicle. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~..." *GODFIRE LUL*
Frankly, after witnessing Hollywood, and various western series, films and series use, misrepresent and outright make up ridiculous bullcrap about nearly all other culture humanity had. Seeing the Japanese ignore the basics and shit all over christian mythology is just hilarious to me. And i was raised as a catholic. This is how someone actually knowing greek mythology felt watching the Hercules or Xena series. This is how a Hindu must have felt watching Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom. I think we can have think enough skin and laugh over some over the top fiction like this, instead of acting like children who hear someone speak badly of the favorite saturday morning cartoon.
see Hercules and Xena didn't really mock Greek mythology they just used it as a backdrop for a fantasy series it was light hearted fun that told a great story this on the other hand it's like watching a crazy man scream about acorns for an hour less a piss take and more trying to hard to be one.
@J purple ramen Yup. You hit the mark. Whenever western media misinterprets other religions and cultures, it's out of ignorance and no bad intent. Yet with Christianity, they just love to sh*t on it every chance they get.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! There was so much Bullshit in this anime that even Penn and Teller would just flat out give up. My brain, it hurts. Bring us the review, wipe away the debt, bring us the review, wipe away the debt.
I am unashamed to admit that myself and some friends were roped into thinking this was some kind of sequel to Ninja Scroll. The anime was weird but if it actually had a conclusion it might not have been that bad.
Bennett I'm actually disappointed in you, at 16:28 you could have easily made a Judge Doom/Roger Rabbit reference (When I killed your brother, I talked JUST LIKE THIS) but no, shame on you dude!
That face in the beginning is exactly how I felt when I first came across this. -_- I feel your pain bro. I couldn't believe that it ended like that, and I have the DVD. Yet I wanted to watch the rest of it, but I can't because I don't think they continued it. 8(
To me this looks like Berserk but... stupid. It has similar imagery and core themes, and both animes end right when shit gets actually serious.Only difference is Berserk did it well, and this was confusing.
Ok the part where Japanese Jesus here is turning into a dragon shouting "MY FATHER HAS HEARD ME AND GRANTED MY PRAYER!" is about the funniest goddamn thing I've seen.
Yup, and they even used Amakusa Shiro as the Big Bad in Samurai Shodown. Trippy! Plus, who can forget the law of inverse ninja lethality? If there's only one, he'll be the deadliest mo-fo ever. If there's dozens, they're just common mooks.
Ah Ninjas. The most popular, marketable, and misinterpreted of all the Japanese tropes. I have a strange unresearched feeling that the reason why Ninjas are often portrayed so poorly in the media, even by Japan is because they don't want to show something that represents the dark sides of Japan's old history. Thus they romanticize to the point of saturation where most people will make the assumption that all these ninjas that are portrayed in the media are close to accurate when in fact they aren't. Similar to how Cowboys have become so romanticized and portrayed in Western Media... even though most stories that date back to their history is VERY negative.
They're also more "interesting" when seen in their pop culture light. It's like when people don't mention the incredibly mercantile and socially progressive Götaland and Svealand but they *will* talk about the vikings which was just a part-time occupation most of the time.
Dreaming Serpent here's the thing, ninja fiction is not inherently bad, but its depictions outside Japan are abysmal at best and are insultingly inaccurate. for instance the familiar ninja sword that is used in so many of these titles, actually has no historical basis. truth be told, anime isn't really the best medium to tell these stories either. in Japan there is a genre called chambara. chambara is what most people in the west would associate as the samurai genre, and ninja fiction falls into this larger category as well. this is something that surprises a lot people, but there really aren't many samurai or ninja titles in anime. the reason is because for decades the chambara genre was by far the most popular in Japanese cinema, and was traditionally made in live action. so basically my point is that there is decent ninja fiction out there, mainly in the live action Japanese films made from about the 50's to 80's. that was when the genre was at its peek.
Yeah in many parts of the American west Cowboy was a pejorative term. The infamous gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was a fine example of a cowboy; he was violent, easily angered, and bragged to the killing of forty men. He was also on the dodge from the law, first the Texas State Police, then the Texas Rangers. His brother also ran a little scam involving real-estate and cattle, this eventually culminated in a short gunfight between Hardin and Brown County Deputy Sharif and former Texas Ranger Charles Webb. This was the killing that proved to be Hardin's undoing as Webb was real popular as a fair and honest Sheriff, and with the utter failure of Reconstruction people were becoming less and less fond of "Good Old Fashioned Rebel Boys" like Hardin, the Antebellum Southern Culture was being restored, a Rebel was in the white house. In the end this cost Hardin several family members and friends. Three to a lynch mob, and two to the Texas Rangers, in the end he was caught and sent to Prison, years after they released him he was shot in the back of the head by John Selman Sr. an infamous Gunfighter who participated in many of the Range Wars and feuds of the American South West. He himself was latter shot and killed by U.S. Marshal George Scarborough.
That little interaction at the very beginning of the video makes me miss Gabe so much! I hope he's doing well! God bless that man! And Sage...of course!😅
This anime was based on a live action movie called Samurai Armageddon. Which had Jubei fight Shiro, his father, and Musashi. I had to track it down because I wanted to know how this anime could have ended..
For further entertaining Japanese interpretations of other religions, consider playing El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Despite sounding like a Transformers spin-off, it's actually a game about the Book of Enoch, a non-canonical text in Judaeo-Christianity, involving Noah's great-grandfather taking on the first fallen angels who mated with human women to produce Nephilim which I think were going to destroy the world(?). Oh, & Satan's in that one too. I promise, it's so bizarre that you'll push through the mediocre gameplay just to see what happens next.
"That'd be like us writing a story about Joseph Smith, who really had mormon powers wrecking all kinds of shit down in Utah, and the only one who can save us is DAVY FUCKING CROCKET!"
...Fucking sold.
Same, someone get a Kickstarter going.
I would have said Indiana Jones riding Optimus Prime into battle with hid best friend Lassie.
But that line is still fucking gold.
I never laughed so hard at any other joke here on Anime Abandon...
AND THAT'S A FUCKING ACHIEVEMENT!!! X;D
Braden Chittick
Agreed.
That needs to be real!
I explained this to my Japanese history professor. She broke down laughing. Best part of this crap is "My Revenge!"
i would pay good money to see that
"GET HIM, JESUS!"
scene would have gone good with the jesus soundclip from when excel saga visits america
Jesus: "I help those who help themselves!".
Mitzukoto Yogaji GET HIM A BODY BAG, JESUS! YEAH!
+horaciosi The serpent came to Tenchi with temptations, but yea, he would not sweep the leg.
my sides hurt
Fun fact: Naruto wasn't the only ninja to appear at 2:23. The rest were just good at their jobs.
such as a ninja should be
Mormon-powered Joseph Smith VS Anime Davy Crockett would be freaking sweet
someone make that a thing
the sequel could be with brigham young vs devry crockett
Sounds Like that chinese fighting game thst has Zeus and Jesus fighting each other
I'd pay good money to see that
I'd watch it. At least for fifteen minutes of pop!
How ironic. This Jube samurai character is clearly meant to be the hero, but ultimately ends up being the VILLAIN because he essentially precipitates the birth of the anti-christ and never gets the chance to save the world because the production got shut down.
Well, I bet the writers didn't see THAT shit coming.
that's the problem with religion, anyone who opposes them is labeled the enemy
@@ellnats But this is Japan we are talking about. Japan doesn't give a shit for any religion but Shintoism or any other local faiths. Outside groups are tolerated at best. So I don't see an anti-religious project warrent being shut down half-way due to it's mere existance. I mean, look at SMT.
@@Green-Raccoon777 maybe they ran out of money and couldn't get any more investment?
@dWatt if I remember correctly, the reason why the anime was cancelled because a murder that happened was similar to the ninja resurrection anime in one of the episode. as for the murder in question, they never explained what was the “murder” case that lead to it’s cancellation. I try to find out what the murder case that is similar to the anime and found nothing at the time, for all we know it may have been one of the death scenes in the missing episode 3 or 4. (The ninja resurrection anime was meant to be a 4 episodes/parts long show/movie)
@Green-Raccoon777 Even Buddhism is subject to Japanese interpretation. They even rename all of the characters in the 3 Kingdoms Era in China in their own history. Everyone gets a Japanese name.
"Jesus was white!"
"No, Jesus was black!"
"Guys, guys, Jesus...was Jewish"
[All Laugh]
Correction,Jesus is frictional.
+Bill Shadix it was a joke
+Ripped ntripps I like jokes.
I legit dunno where that came from. Shouldn't he be a middle-eastern Jew?
This is a pet peeve of my so keep that in mind.
Saying Jesus was fiction is just flat out stupid, you can deny his divinity all you want. But to say at the very least their was not Jewish Reformer in the time of the of the first century who was crucified by the Romans and perceived as many to be the son of the Jewish god is idiotic. It's like claiming the Buddha, Mohammad, Confucius, Joseph Smith, or Christopher Hitchens didn't exist.
It's almost like this anime was made purposely to piss off everyone, not just Ninja Scroll fans or Japanese historians, everyone.
Pretty much the general opinion of it from the day ADV sicced it upon the west.
There are way worse animes out there, and even some more controversial in terms of content, but there aren't many that are as flat out universally despised. The only way you could like this thing is the way Sage says he does: fascination.
the story for this series long predates Ninja Scroll. it's based on a novel that combined fiction with historical events. the original title translated was Samurai Resurrection, or Samurai Reincarnation, not Ninja Resurrection.
the anime isn't the first adaptation of it, the story as has been done several times as live action feature films, most recently in 2003. but the best known version came out in 1981, staring Sonny Chiba as Jubei Yagyu, and Tomisaburo Wakayama playing his father Munenori Yagyu. audiences in the west would known Wakayama as Lone Wolf from the Lone Wolf & Cub film series, and they would know Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo from Kill Bill. in Japan however, Jubei Yagyu was Sonny Chiba's most famous recurring role, having played him many times in film and television, and Jubei Yagyu was an historical figure. in Japan, Jubei Yagyu is way more famous than Jubei from Ninja Scroll.
I'm more bamboozled then pissed-off, what a mind fuck this anime was!
Also Youtouden (Wrath of the Ninja) fans, who back in the day were tricked into thinking the 3 were somehow related.
***** shhhh.... how are Americans supposed to know that the titles on the box aren't the real titles? that would require like effort or something....
As a practicing Catholic, not only is this anime only the second I've seen that directly references the Shimbara Rebellion, the first being Samurai Champloo, but it manages to out-crazy Samurai Champloo.
And that had a St. Francis Xavier caricature in the form of his grandson, in which he appears as Jewish, cross-eyed as fuck, a lech, runs a underground club that has massive statues of the Crucifixion (with one statue of Jesus slinging the Cross over his shoulder like he's Paul Bunyan), wields a giant shotgun/blunderbuss hybrid, and is also a Japanese con artist.
Fucking. 10/10.
Seriously, Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights ain't got jack on this burning tire pile of madness.
GET HIM JESUS! CUT HIM DOWN!
Oh my God! That is single-handedly the funniest line I must have heard in an anime! I think I have to say that in real life now!
strange, i missed it
where did it happen
I guess everyone's favorite part of the bible is when Jesus turned into a dragon now.
There was a segment cut from the Bible where baby Jesus commanded a legion of dragons. I am not joking.
Greg Vee Wait you mean Jessus was actually Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon??
1Iamnotserious
No, more like an Alpha dragon in the sequel, but in human form.
White Knight oh sorry. I meant Toothless. But I do agree with your statement.
There was one version of the Bible where Jesus killed a Dragon.
Ninja Resurrection is an adaptation of a Japanese novel called Makai Tensho. You can find an article about it on Wikipedia. I don't think the book has been published in English, but there HAVE been several live-action films based on it. If you want to get an idea on how the story of this anime MIGHT have ended, then you can check out those films at least. Fun fact: The book's main villain WAS a ninja who used to serve Amakusa Shirou & he only became a ninja to learn how to summon demons & create undead. The synopsis says he brought back BOTH Jubei Yagyu & Amakusa Shirou as undead in the book, but I don't know what their roles in the original story were after that. All I have to go on is the synopsis & that's it.
I read a little about this too. Going off what I know and this synopsis, I can see why it failed with audiences, as it seems to be going really fast and loose with the source material.
@@rhett8819 Most adaptations of the story play fast & loose with it. There have been several live-action films based on it. Shirou Amakusa is usually the ultimate villain in all of them as opposed to his underling in the story.
Episode 3, it starts with Jubei seeing the chaos Satan is doing and just says "Fuck this shit, I'm out."
He was going the Chaos route anyway.
I had this DVD on my shelf for over a year and on a whim I decided to watch it with a group of friends of mine for a marathon of "so bad they're good films" but because our host lost our original tapes I decided to put this one on instead and neither of us have ever heard of this batshit insane anime. Needless to say we were mesmerized by the experience and shocked it ended without an ending. *WE ACTUALLY WANTED TO SEE HOW IT ENDS.*
David Crockett fighting superpowered Joseph Smith is something I would watch.
“GET THE MORMON GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT UNCLE!!!”
18:55 *I WILL WRITE THAT STORY EVEN IF EVERY JACKASS ON TUMBLR SHOWS UP AT MY DOOR WITH A NOOSE IN HAND.* Good Lord, that is *golden*, Sage. THANK YOU for inspiring me!
If you do write it, make sure to post a link; I'd love to read it.
Brian Seaman
In the mean time, here's something I wrote for my Cinematic Storytelling class:
www.fanfiction.net/s/11018549/1/Supergirl-Returns
WARNING: this story is nuts.
*****
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You're welcome.
Ikrani I cracked up twice as much at the Grant Morrison part. This was freaking great.
Rodney 2x4
It's even funnier when you realize that's something he actually said, in all seriousness, to an entire audience.
And we bowed for the privilege of hearing him say it.
So.. I just learned that there was a Christian Rebellion from an Anime that is all over the place when it comes to historical fact.. Something is very wrong with that.
Could be worse... there is a company that includes a "History of Anime Art Form" documentary as a bonus feature on all their Hentai releases...
Well.. is it historically inaccurate? I mean Hentai is just Anime Porn if we wanna keep this simple. So I mean, why not give out a bit of free content for when you're cleaning up after all that fappin'? XD
Christianity has big part in conflict of Sengoku Jidai in XV-XVI century Japan. But outside that, creators literally don't know shit about that religion. It literally look like someone pull random history book, and in end probably don't know even that Christianity is true religion.
Wes Roth Oh, it's accurate just weird since it uses footage from all these big well know animes in history like Astro-Boy and Guyver! Just weird to to say you learned something about anime history from the dark seedy underbelly of it! XD
TheRezro The XVIth century and XVII century. The Portuguese didn't reach Japan until the 1540s. You got the centuries wrong.
*takes a long drag from a cigarette* THAT...was a journey.
Lori P that picture matches the comment PERFECTLY
It’s such a shame that Amakusa Shiro, a teenager who led a rebellion against religious oppression and was executed for it is almost exclusively interpreted in modern Japanese media as evil incarnate. Really showing your extreme xenophobia, Japan.
The 1981 movie adaptation by Kinji Fukasaku kind of showed that Shiro lost faith in God after seeing all of his followers get butchered and basically went to the devil as a means of revenge against the Shogunate. That adaptation makes the Shogunate look just as bad there considering they behead women and children. It didn't really feel like Shiro was evil incarnate there.
@@ericcaulfield4477 And the 1996 and 2003 adaptations.
OKAY, so this is based on the novel Makai Tensho by Futaro Yamada. And yeah, it *is* technically a sequel to Ninja Scroll, as much as the anime Basilisk is a sequel to Ninja Scroll and the movie Shinobi: Heart Under Blade is... and a LOT of other movies, tv shows and manga. Look the author up. He's basically the guy's stuff was popular, working in evergreen public domain historical figures like Hattori Hanzo, Jubei Yagyu, and more.
@@bar-1studios I must apologize I haven't really seen all the adaptations but the 1981 one.
@@ericcaulfield4477 No need to apologize- but it just goes to show how popular and prolific the guy was. ... with or without magic vagina bubbles. (NO. SERIOUSLY.)
like fr i saw nothing wrong with this guy, thru this fever dream ass OVA i learnt something new about japan's history, and to be honest, i cheered for him, but that's maybe just my (ex-)christian solidarity (i used to be kinda religious in my childhood)
Amakusa Shiro Tokisada was also the final boss in the SNK Fighting Game "Samurai Showdown"
I wonder if he would return as DLC in the latest version?
I still love how they animated Shiro while he was freaking out (I did watch the full episodes of it). Full on cartoony insanity.
I did get the 'soccer' fan joke though. Unfortunately.
none ninjas? How about nun ninjas? Nun ninjas, the masters of the metal ruler.
Nunjas?
You forgot to mention they also had another historical figure who is the old man with white hair, Musashi Miyamoto. If I'm correct, Musashi NEVER met or knew Jubei Yagyu, nor was he a ninja, either.
Then Sasaki Kojiro borrows a Jubei's theme
So glad that Bennett never fails to delivery. This anime deserved that Kevin Smith idea. It would make a lot more sense than the story as it is...
Actually Shiro is Tenshi.
The Tenshi is just a title, like Christ.
I just found out that there are a couple of Japanese live action movies that pretty much have the exact same plot! Jubei Yagyu fights Amakusa Shiro who has been reincarnated as Satan. Apparantly it was popular enough to warrant a sequel, both were directed by the same guy and the titles are known as "Reborn From Hell". They even got Martin Burke to reprise his role as Amakusa.
...LOOK IT UP! ITS TOTALLY REAL!
+Morbius Fitzgerald Yeah. It was a novel first, I believe.
_WHAT_
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
I wasn't able to find an anime reborn from hell (found a few unrelated to this anime live action ones based in a similar story but that's besides the point) I did find the actual sequel to this it's called ninja scroll hell spawn .
Ironically He also ended up in the Fate series as a heroic servant as well XD
How come shiro-jesus looks like fucking Alucard right before he transforms?
Maybe he was super powered vampire all along. Makes more sense than this bat shit insane anime does.
I only know that most Japanese even don't mention Jesus, and probably don't understand idea of Messiah/Christ outside generic "savior" or champion of heaven.
I could bring some Shin Megami Tensei reference, but creators of that show don't know literally nothing about Christianity, so even that would be pointless.
*****
But he is rooting for God?
It's Anderson's wet dream and nightmare all rolled into one!
Well the anime did state that this person could also become Satan. Going from Alucard to Satan feels more natural than starting with Jesus to get there
TheRezro
I would add that they also have storie a where a normal human I'm with great power can flip on a dime and usually if not always screw up. Human born from a god would just be magic human.
The first time I watched this review a while back, i thought the voice actor sounded familiar when Shiro goes off the deep end. It's just a shame the clip of him freaking out wasn't followed up with "SHUT UP, TAILS!!" Would have gone perfectly.
Also, "GET HIM, JESUS!" cracks me up every time I hear that line.
aha-ha, i see what you did there
should've been the "you might know everything i'm going to do" verse, sans the "strange, isn't it", would've fit better
I remember watching this anime when I was real little and just getting into anime in the very late 90's, early 2000's. I had picked it up from block buster, which at the time was my only source of anime, and it fucked me up and almost put me off of anime for good. But I chock that up to my age at the time and I had forgotten about it, till now. Now I fell like I could rewatch it cause I can handle it better now that I'm older.
I'm Christian I luv anime but this makes Scientology look realistic
My favorite part of this is hearing Jubei's crazy father. Thinking he's as bat-shit psychotic, manipulative, hypocritical and murderous as Heihachi Mishima. And realizing it's the same voice actor from the Tekken anime.
God-level Joseph Smith vs Davy Crockett? Actually, that sounds awesome in the most bonkers way
Jesus was pretty chill, but he did know where to draw the line, and if pushed too far, he would (and did) get violent.
Really? Id be interested to see some examples.
If you desecrated the temple he would violently cast you out, like he did to the money changers.
chased 'em out with a whip
The funny thing is that the father has the same voice actor as Heihachi in the dub of Tekken: The Motion Picture. Every actor has a calling and his is to play batshit insane dads.
This is my favorite Sage review. This anime is just so straight-faced while committing insanity.
I just had to comment.. thank you for showing me this crazy as fuck anime. I never laughed so hard or reacted so much to any of your videos until now. I consider it an early birthday gift. Thank you Sage.
Asuming Jesus was so easily convinced, why would a all knowing God grant him extra powers if it's a wild goose chase.
Sage, never use that high pitched sound ever again, it hurts, like for real.
I mean the details are fuzzy, but what sound? Why am I bleeding?
19:09 not sure what this whole rant was about, maybe it's the anti theist in me, but everything that yyou have described, including the whole fighting joseph smith with davy crocket, that sounds AWESOME, might actually watch it now.
Joseph Smith with Mormon powers fighting Davy Crockett? *Sigh* Yeah i'd probably watch the shit out of that.
Same. SAME.
Wait...He mentioned Martin Burke as Shiro's VA?...Kinda funny that's Sonic's VA in the Sonic OVA...huh.
Strange, isn't it?
GreatAwesomeReviewers
.....I really should have seen that coming....
SharpmanPrime01 Yes, yes you should have.
GreatAwesomeReviewers
No problem dude.
SharpmanPrime01 Well, there is ONE problem.
You know exactly what I'm going to do, and I know exactly what *YOU'RE* going to do.
No, I won't stop quoting that terrible, yet awesome OVA.
In my head cannon I see this as a prequel to the Samurai Showdown. Makes this seem like the best thing ever.
10:50- Oh hi, Wolverine!
I haven't seen this many crucifixes in an anime since Evangelion.
3:24 This Christian dude's beliefs specifically forbade suicide, so he was executed. Soon everyone learned that people die when they are killed.
AHAHAHAHA! My father has heard me and granted my prayer: MY REVENGE!
Amakusa and Jubei are also both characters in SNK's Samurai Shodown
Missing Amakusa in the DLC!
im in tears right now, this review is brilliant!!!
i love how nonchalant his reaction to magic jesus is
When the Japanese handle Christianity it's always laughable. I only know of one exception and I suspect that exception is due to Mr Shusako Endo was himself a devout Roman Catholic. Consequently if you want a serious treatment of Christianity in Japan during this sort of time period, Silence and The Samurai are great novels.
the who created ultraman was a christian. so was late actor Toshiro Mifune, and he seen as a national treasure.
For the most part, for works of fiction, they don't take any religion that seriously. Christianity is fair game, not unlike how Americans works use Norse and Greek mythology.
While he wasn't Christian (he was agnostic), Osamu Tezuka has had more positive portrayal of Christianity in his manga works.
Badre Bally
so did shotaro ishinomori (kamen rider, cyborg 009, kikaider) who worked under Tezuka.
I read that
Martin Scorceas was supposed to make a live action movie based on silence
Bang it Sage After many years I had finally manage to forget the disappointment I had with ninja resurrection's ending but now after watching this its all returned....Thanks for that....
lol nice vid man, I look forward to watching the rest of what you have.
I'm pretty sure the narration meant that 'Tenchi' is what they call God. "... the son of our god Tenchi"
Oh, wait, seems I have gone over my daily allotment of pointless nitpicking. I can hear the crotch-wolves coming. Gotta run!
GIT EM JESUS!!!
I kinda wanna see Joseph Smith vs Davy Crockett
We all do.
Every time Amakusa Shiro is portrayed in an anime, it's a weird fucking thing. Between here, Sins of the Sisters and Fate/Apocrypha, there's so much insanity to unpack, but my favorite is undoubtedly SotS Shiro with that voice that can only come from a third testicle.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~..." *GODFIRE LUL*
Frankly, after witnessing Hollywood, and various western series, films and series use, misrepresent and outright make up ridiculous bullcrap about nearly all other culture humanity had. Seeing the Japanese ignore the basics and shit all over christian mythology is just hilarious to me. And i was raised as a catholic. This is how someone actually knowing greek mythology felt watching the Hercules or Xena series. This is how a Hindu must have felt watching Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom. I think we can have think enough skin and laugh over some over the top fiction like this, instead of acting like children who hear someone speak badly of the favorite saturday morning cartoon.
This is the most satisfying pisstake on Christianity EVER, beyond anything Pureflix makes.
see Hercules and Xena didn't really mock Greek mythology they just used it as a backdrop for a fantasy series it was light hearted fun that told a great story this on the other hand it's like watching a crazy man scream about acorns for an hour less a piss take and more trying to hard to be one.
@J purple ramen Yup. You hit the mark. Whenever western media misinterprets other religions and cultures, it's out of ignorance and no bad intent. Yet with Christianity, they just love to sh*t on it every chance they get.
I love Gabe. He's my favorite of Sages' characters, tied with Suave Sage.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! There was so much Bullshit in this anime that even Penn and Teller would just flat out give up. My brain, it hurts. Bring us the review, wipe away the debt, bring us the review, wipe away the debt.
2:24 marks the first recorded occasion of Naruto Uzumaki being subtle.
And… fans of Naruto? You know I'm right.
Back in 98 this anime was too dope, this was cool when I was 15!
I honestly feel Bennet and his team should make a horror film.
Dude! You missed a good Talladega Nights reference! "I like to picture my Jesus as a ninja fighting off evil samurai."
"GET 'IM, JESUS!!! CUT 'IM DOWN!!!!!!"
where...
Dude I think this is now my favourite anime... Good lord!
I am unashamed to admit that myself and some friends were roped into thinking this was some kind of sequel to Ninja Scroll. The anime was weird but if it actually had a conclusion it might not have been that bad.
This is my favorite episode of anime abandon
Bennett I'm actually disappointed in you, at 16:28 you could have easily made a Judge Doom/Roger Rabbit reference (When I killed your brother, I talked JUST LIKE THIS) but no, shame on you dude!
25:40
Studio ADV after releasing this madness to the public
Lol great use of clips from an evening with Kevin Smith.
Sage.. please never make my ears bleed again.
Love,
Wes
Ninja Cadets,huh?That was Michelle Ruff's first gig ever as a voice-actress.
I would pay good fucking money to see Joseph Smith vs. Davy Crockett, that be far more epic then Batman vs. Superman could every be!
That face in the beginning is exactly how I felt when I first came across this. -_- I feel your pain bro. I couldn't believe that it ended like that, and I have the DVD. Yet I wanted to watch the rest of it, but I can't because I don't think they continued it. 8(
I remember this anime! When I saw this as a kid I thought it was ninja scroll and was just as confused as u by the story
12:44 Amakusa Lowkey sound like Invader Zim when he starts summoning the Terra Cotta Dragon
but it adds to the lulz factor. straaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange, isn't it
To me this looks like Berserk but... stupid. It has similar imagery and core themes, and both animes end right when shit gets actually serious.Only difference is Berserk did it well, and this was confusing.
Here's an idea: Maybe his name is Tenchi Shiro!
Ok the part where Japanese Jesus here is turning into a dragon shouting "MY FATHER HAS HEARD ME AND GRANTED MY PRAYER!" is about the funniest goddamn thing I've seen.
the fact this guy voiced sonic at one point adds to the funny factor
28:18, oh hey one of the prof. Saotome's ancestor was a ninja.
Yup, and they even used Amakusa Shiro as the Big Bad in Samurai Shodown. Trippy! Plus, who can forget the law of inverse ninja lethality? If there's only one, he'll be the deadliest mo-fo ever. If there's dozens, they're just common mooks.
Ah Ninjas. The most popular, marketable, and misinterpreted of all the Japanese tropes.
I have a strange unresearched feeling that the reason why Ninjas are often portrayed so poorly in the media, even by Japan is because they don't want to show something that represents the dark sides of Japan's old history. Thus they romanticize to the point of saturation where most people will make the assumption that all these ninjas that are portrayed in the media are close to accurate when in fact they aren't.
Similar to how Cowboys have become so romanticized and portrayed in Western Media... even though most stories that date back to their history is VERY negative.
They're also more "interesting" when seen in their pop culture light. It's like when people don't mention the incredibly mercantile and socially progressive Götaland and Svealand but they *will* talk about the vikings which was just a part-time occupation most of the time.
Dreaming Serpent here's the thing, ninja fiction is not inherently bad, but its depictions outside Japan are abysmal at best and are insultingly inaccurate. for instance the familiar ninja sword that is used in so many of these titles, actually has no historical basis.
truth be told, anime isn't really the best medium to tell these stories either. in Japan there is a genre called chambara. chambara is what most people in the west would associate as the samurai genre, and ninja fiction falls into this larger category as well.
this is something that surprises a lot people, but there really aren't many samurai or ninja titles in anime. the reason is because for decades the chambara genre was by far the most popular in Japanese cinema, and was traditionally made in live action. so basically my point is that there is decent ninja fiction out there, mainly in the live action Japanese films made from about the 50's to 80's. that was when the genre was at its peek.
Yeah in many parts of the American west Cowboy was a pejorative term. The infamous gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was a fine example of a cowboy; he was violent, easily angered, and bragged to the killing of forty men. He was also on the dodge from the law, first the Texas State Police, then the Texas Rangers. His brother also ran a little scam involving real-estate and cattle, this eventually culminated in a short gunfight between Hardin and Brown County Deputy Sharif and former Texas Ranger Charles Webb. This was the killing that proved to be Hardin's undoing as Webb was real popular as a fair and honest Sheriff, and with the utter failure of Reconstruction people were becoming less and less fond of "Good Old Fashioned Rebel Boys" like Hardin, the Antebellum Southern Culture was being restored, a Rebel was in the white house. In the end this cost Hardin several family members and friends. Three to a lynch mob, and two to the Texas Rangers, in the end he was caught and sent to Prison, years after they released him he was shot in the back of the head by John Selman Sr. an infamous Gunfighter who participated in many of the Range Wars and feuds of the American South West. He himself was latter shot and killed by U.S. Marshal George Scarborough.
That little interaction at the very beginning of the video makes me miss Gabe so much! I hope he's doing well! God bless that man!
And Sage...of course!😅
I just cracked up with the severed finger scene, the editing was just so funny
Well, that was fun. Can we have the Scientology JFKish anime now? The one where Lord Xenu killed L. Ron Hubbard with and exploding conch shell?
Who wants to see a Joseph Smith movie with him fighting Davy Crockett with his Mormon powers. I would.
17:57 What came to mind was G. W. Bailey sicing his doberman on Andrew MacCarthy in Mannequin: "Get 'im, Terminator!"
The high pitched squeal made my blind dog with dementia piss all over my floor.........
Quick fact: Martin Burke also played as Sonic in Sonic OVA. So.... There's that.
I'm a soccer fan....wonder what tha means....wait....that old phrase "if theres Grass on the field, play ball..." OH GOD DAMMIT
what would god need with a dragon?
This anime was based on a live action movie called Samurai Armageddon. Which had Jubei fight Shiro, his father, and Musashi.
I had to track it down because I wanted to know how this anime could have ended..
I have no words to what I just witnessed.
I am infact a Mormon....and I would totally watch the shit out of Davy Crockett vs Mormon Power Joseph Smith X'D
I haven't found a content creator in a while whose back-log has been as enjoyable to go through as BTS
Its funny as Martin Burke also voiced Sonic in that OVA Special. And the VA for Ocho's father is also OVA Eggman/Robotnik.
imagine the same setting, except that it's in the sonic universe. robotnik's manipulating sonic. when you watch the ova, you can't unhear the voices
22:47 RIP Lenord nemoy
I don't get the soccer joke. Is it a reference to "if there's grass on the playing field?"
A lot of scenes in this looks like they’re right out of Mike Mignola’s sketchbook.
For further entertaining Japanese interpretations of other religions, consider playing El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Despite sounding like a Transformers spin-off, it's actually a game about the Book of Enoch, a non-canonical text in Judaeo-Christianity, involving Noah's great-grandfather taking on the first fallen angels who mated with human women to produce Nephilim which I think were going to destroy the world(?). Oh, & Satan's in that one too. I promise, it's so bizarre that you'll push through the mediocre gameplay just to see what happens next.
And its a meme in Asian Internet culture for its ridiculous trailer and writing.
GamerDame Lucifel is not the devil, he is the one with a direct line to The Big Guy.
I've played that one! It's basically Devil May Cry but with Judeo-Christian themes, it's actually way better than it sounds.
There’s a guy that looks like Aizen from Bleach
I have seen it in Epic Stupid vids
5:40 - 5:45 : Something's missing here... oh yeah, you completely forgo the Colm Wilconson 'Home' effect!