Mon, Mar 12, 2018
Seventeen years ago, in the 20th year of the keichou era, at osaka, during the summer campaign, handmaid otashi reveals to senhime that she is in fact namemba, an iga ninja. In the present at edo castle, tenkai is trying to find tadanaga and calls in hadaebou. Hadaebou travels to jison'in village and asks for the ninja's assistance to defeat joujin and the murakumo, but they are reluctant to become involved. Meanwhile the kishuu prepare to attack the murakumo with canons, but joujin reassures tadanaga that they are well-defended. He opens fire with his own canons, completely wiping out the kishuu forces. Back in the keichou era, senhime is revealed as hideyori's wife and granddaughter of tokugawa ieyasu. Nambemba escapes with her, leaving her to be found by sakazaki naomori and rescued. In the present, gorone has decided to destroy the murakumo assisted by information provided by hadaebou about the joujinshuu, and outlines his plan to the ninjas. At edo castle, tenkai receives news that the ninja will attack the murakumo, and decides that tadanaga must suffer the consequences of his alliance with joujin.
Mon, May 21, 2018
Shikibu and hachisu attack the murakumo in a frontal assault, while inside, hachiro fights off hibiki who is being controlled by joujin. Hachiro defenselessly lets hibiki attack him and stops her, but, convinced by joijin that she is oboro, she calls him gennosuke. Then, rinne magoroku tries to use his adamantite tower to control hachiro. Meanwhile shichigen, rui and utsutsu travel up through the murakumo. Shichigen encounters yasha itaru who uses her destiny's passage mirror to creates the illusion that she is his mother. Controlled by itaru, shichigen then attacks and cuts shikibu and hachisu with his sword before they can defend themselves. Itaru then forces shikibu to remove his constraining armor. However even without her hands, hachisu shoots itaru, breaking her spell and then shikibu kills her as his unarmored body explodes. Meanwhile, joujin thinks he now has control over hachiro and hibiki, and waits for them to consummate their relationship.
Mon, Jan 29, 2018
That night iga ninja tsuta houetsu encounters a joujinshuu woman who threatens to kill him, but he trusts his defensive root barrier. She reveals her name is yasha itaru as he uses his root lasoo technique to bind her, however he makes the mistake of looking into her mirror, destiny's passage, which reflects his life, filling him with despair forcing to leap off a cliff to his death. Back at the ooi river joujin calls his attendants, kujaku tsuibamu and rinne magoroku who uses a spinning technique to transport tadanaga to akayashagaruba before the kokuuzou bosatsu or adamantite tower. Meanwhile, the iga ninja search for houestsu and encounter the joujinshuu, neiri chiou. Tadanaga finds himself going back in time through kujaku tsuibamu's inverted halberd of time, to when his brother was sick with the pox and envied his sibling's good health. Tadanaga now realizes that the kurokuwa, were sent by his brother to kill him, and his only option is rebellion. Back at jison'in village, an eagle delivers a cloth with the word joujinshuu written in blood from gei'in, the name of his killers. As rui and shichigen near the iga village, they find the remains of what appears to be the five flowers of iga. At ooi river, tadanaga is confronted by the four severed heads of the iga; shogyo kareha, tsuta houestsu, irootoroe itsuma and suiren shuugetsu. Joujin says he left only kouga hachirou and iga hibiki alive to demonstrate the power within his control.
Mon, Jan 8, 2018
At the succession ceremony of the new shogun, takechiyo and kunichiyo are shown the ninja scroll saying iga oboro was the last to die, confirming takechiyo as the future shogun, much to kunichiyo's disappointment. Back at the ooi river the five kouga ninjas identify the assailants as iga ninja. Kaso himonji uses his grass fire technique to attack the iga and kazuma kusanagi uses his heaven's lyre whips to slash them, but an iga uses his darkness spider to cloak the area in darkness. However shichito gei'in uses his firefly squid technique to illuminate the night and calls on tenshin who uses his thousand-handed kannon to finish them off. While waiting to proceed, tadanaga questions gei'in about gennosuke's eye technique. In jison'in village, hachirou plans to leave, concerned that his and hibiki's powers are a threat to them both. Meanwhile tadanaga speculates with gei'in and kaso himonji about what actually happened on the day of the duel between gennosuke and oboro and kyouhachirou's interest in continuing the kouga and iga blood lines. Suddenly tenshin appears at the door, but he falls dead before them.
Mon, Feb 12, 2018
In 1630, four years later, in edo castle tokugawa hidetada strips tadanaga of his lands and privilege for killing monkeys at sengen shrine at suruga. Later that year, hidetada passes away from illness, and his funeral is held in secret according to his wishes. A year later, tadanaga is exiled at takasaki castle in the distant land of joushuu (kozuke province). Several years later, the young ninjas have grown while continuing their training in preparation for the day their enemies reappear. They have not seen hachiro since the battle with joujin and his agents, although since he left, hibiki has been conscious of his presence. Meanwhile hachiro has also honed his skills, in preparation for facing joujin again. One day, while crossing a suspension bridge, hachiro encounters a blindfolded stranger who attacks him to test his skills. The stranger introduces .himself as hadaebou, and delivers a message that the dainagon of suruga who is exiled in kouzuke wants to speak with him. He believes a strange, dark moving castle called murakumo is coming.
Mon, Feb 26, 2018
In a flashback to 18 years earlier in edo castle, tenkai is seen proposing a ninja duel to the shogun to settle his succession and save a costly war between opposing samurai. In the present, tadanaga's commander bunnoshin, prepares to trap hachiro, firstly by a group of archers commanded by a man with sensitive hearing who can direct their arrows to avoid hachiro's dojutsu technique. However a flight of crickets sent by shichigen distracts him, enabling hachiro to use his dojutsu to destroy them all. The next trap uses riflemen commanded by the master marksman gorouza the hawk, but shikibu first ambushes the riflemen, with hachiro then killing the remainder. Gorouza prepares to shoot hachiro, but soap bubbles he blew to show wind direction enable hachiro again to use his dojutsu and gorouza shoots himself. Hachiro then refuses his comrades' help, wanting to seek revenge without spilling their blood. When hachiro stops for food, he meets gobo, high priest tenkai's ninja monk, who offers an alliance against the common enemy, joujin, who now has additional forces called the rain. Meanwhile utsutsu and rui investigate the murakumo. They encounter what appear to be farmers, but they are joujin's rain fighters. Pursued by the rain, the two ninja fight back with their special skills. At suruga, joujin confronts tadanaga.
Mon, Jan 15, 2018
In the early days of training, the young ninja practice, but are reminded by gorone negoro that they do not fight for kouga nor iga, but for their leaders. They also learn about the powers of hibiki and hachirou. Back at the ooi river gei'in and kaso rush out looking for kazuma and find him bound to a water wheel and killed by his own heaven's lyre. The meet the killer, but when kaso attacks him, his own grass fire flames consume him. He reveals his name is kujaku tsuibamu, one of the joujinshuu, enemies of both the five treasures of kouga and five flowers of iga who are fated to die that night. As he talks gei'in sends his poisonous firefly squid below kujaku tsuibamu, but he avoids it, and even when he sends a burst of poison towards him, it returns to his body, killing him. Hachirou detects that four treasures of kouga are deadand returns with hibiki to the village. Gorone reminds them that they must put their clan differences aside, and sends rui and shichigen to warn the five flowers of iga while the others stand guard. Back at the ooi river tadanaga is confronted by joujin, a former palace official who tells him that he will be executed by his brother, shogun iemitsu.
Mon, Feb 19, 2018
Namenba infiltrates edo castle to speak to the shogun. She is intercepted by the iga kurokuwa, but although she kills them all, she suspects someone helped her. She dribbles a truth potion in the sleeping shogun's mouth and questions him. She finds that he knows nothing about joujin who appears to be acting without the shogun's authority. As she escapes, she encounters hadaebou who was her mysterious ally. At jison'in village the ninja girls discuss the dark moving castle or houren ( imperial carriage) which hibiki believes is transporting the joujinshuu. In takasaki castle, tadanaga tells hachiro about his encounter with joujin 6 years ago and the power he displayed. Tadanaga says joujin tricked him into killing the monkeys at sengen shrine and then built the murakumo with money he gave to joujin to build an imperial carriage in his mother's memory. He asks hachiro to destroy the murakumo and the joujinshuu inside, however hachiro refuses, not wanting the ninjas again to be pawns in a tokugawa power struggle. Angry, tadanaga calls on his samurai waiting outside to kill hachiro. They enter wearing eye-shades, but shaizou allows hachiro to focus his dojutsu technique through his moving eyes, forcing them to kill each other. Hachiro then leaves, but tadanaga orders him to be followed and killed.
Mon, Mar 5, 2018
Joujin tells tadanaga that he could become a god like the samurai oda kazusanosuke nobunaga. Utsutsu and rui continue the fight the pursuing rain fighters but are outnumbered however, their ninja comrades and namemba appear and assist them. Back at the village, gorone examines utsutsu's sketch of the murakumo while namemba tells him about her conversation with the monk, nankoubou tenkai, most trusted councilor of lord ieyasu who asked for the ninja's help defeating the common enemy, the joujinshuu. The ninja regroup at their cafe and learn about hachiro's meeting with tadanaga and his intention to fight alone. They decide to learn more about the murakumo, shaizou using his technique to see inside the structure, with his vulnerable body protected by the others. He sees the what appears to be the kazusanosuke (vice governor) who crumbles to dust before he has to withdraw. They are again pursued by the rain, leaving it to rui to dispose of them with backup from hachisu. Meanwhile, hachiro sees the soldiers of kishuu on the march.