Aunque su nombre nunca se dice en el anime o el manga. Rated for some sexuality and disturbing plot. Muere cuando intenta emboscar a los Iga en un barco, sin embargo, Akeginu lo empapa con sangre lo. Pairings: Saemon and Hotarubi, Gennosuke and Oboro. He uses his ninja ability to take on Yashamaru's identity and trick Hotarubi into thinking he is him while slowly assuming his own identity again so her love will slowly and unknowingly shift to him.Īngst/Romance/Drama/Hurt & Comfort/Tragedy. Tropes used in Basilisk include: Action Girl: Akeginu, Hotarubi, Okoi and (to a lesser extent) Kagerou. The manga itself also won the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. Two warring ninja clans, each supporting a son of Hidetada Tokugawa as the next shogun, send ten representatives each to fight to the death for the possession of a scroll. The anime, produced in 2005 by GONZO Studios, closely follows the manga aside from a handful of distinctions. After kidnapping her and keeping her hostage in the Kouga Village, he uses her borderline insanity and obsessive love for Yashamaru to his advantage. action, drama, fantasy, romance, supernatural. In an alternate ending where the Kouga are victorious in the war, Saemon has taken a liking to Hotarubi and has decided to keep her. Akeginu () is the bodyguard and confidant (a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others) of Princess Oboro, a member of the Iga Tsubagakure clan and one of the ten ninja picked by Ogen to participate in the battle against the Kouga. A man breaks the limbs of a few attackers when they jump him (somewhat subdued reactions, at least). A man is also badly stabbed in the shoulder. The worst stabbing by sword involves a man who is slowly killed after trying to escape a ship. Moviefan_92 Fandoms: Basilisk (Anime & Manga) They both show excruciating pain for a couple of seconds before dying.