Futaroh Yamada's Kunoichi Ninpōchō Novel Gets Manga
The novel centers on five female ninja, each carrying a child of Toyotomi Hideyori. On the order of Toyotomi clan vassal Sanada Yukimura, they use their ninja skills to escape the Siege of Osaka and escape Tokugawa Ieyasu's wrath.The novel is part of Yamada's Ninpōchō novel series, whose various works have inspired films, anime, and manga adaptations. Kunoichi Ninpōchō itself inspired a live-action film by Sadao Nakajima in 1964.The late Futaroh Yamada's classic Makai Tenshō novel, which was serialized under the title Oboro Ninpōchō in Osaka Shimbun from 1964-1965, is the basis for the 1998 original video anime Ninja Resurrection. Masaki Segawa launched the Jū ~Ninpō Makai Tenshō~ manga based on the novel in Kodansha's Young Magazine in 2012, and ended it in 2018.Segawa's original Basilisk manga adapts Futaroh Yamada's 1959 novel Kōga Ninpōchō (The Kouga Ninja Scrolls). The manga inspired a television anime adaptation in 2005, as well as a live-action film titled SHINOBI - Heart Under Blade the same year.The Basilisk franchise received a new television anime and manga titled Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls (Basilisk: Ōka Ninpōchō), based on Masaki Yamada's sequel novels for Basilisk. Kodansha published the two novels in November and December 2015, with illustrations by Segawa. The anime premiered in January 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed an English dub. Tatsuya Shihara launched the manga in July 2017 in Young Magazine, and ended it in 2019.Source: Comic Ran September issue
