Masaki Segawa Boeken

"SERIES OVERVIEW- n an old Japan that never was, a war between two feuding ninja clans is about to begin. The ninja wield awesome and deadly supernatural powers, which will only make the battle all the more desperate. Ten champions from each clan will meet in a fight to the death - with the victor ruling Japan for the next thousand years. But when the son of one clan meets the daughter of the other, they fall in love. Will their forbidden love end the war or drive the clans into their next final battle?

The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years. But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

In der Edo-Periode wird die Hori-Familie vom Aizu-Klan ausgelöscht, nur sieben Frauen überleben und schwören Rache. Mit Unterstützung des Ninja-Meisters Yagyu Mitsuyoshi erlernen sie die Kampfkunst und starten einen gnadenlosen Rachefeldzug gegen die sieben Speere.