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!

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

i would pay good money to see that

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!

such as a ninja should be

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.

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....

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.

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.

strange, i missed it where did it happen

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.

He was going the Chaos route anyway.

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.

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)

Lori P that picture matches the comment PERFECTLY

Nunjas?

I wonder if he would return as DLC in the latest version?

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.

Then Sasaki Kojiro borrows a Jubei's theme

+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

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.

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

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 mean the details are fuzzy, but what sound? Why am I bleeding?

Same. SAME.

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.

where...

Missing Amakusa in the DLC!

We all do.

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

the fact this guy voiced sonic at one point adds to the funny factor

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.

but it adds to the lulz factor. straaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange, isn't it

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

LEAVE! NO! EVIDENCE!

Careful they'll end up watching the 2003 remake called that.