4 out of 10 for the animation . it true that there lot of action pack anime out there that big on flash and light on story . but this movie rap my eye . this movie forcibly shove unwanted imagery into my skull . i start watch it because i believe the slugline on the dvd box and that it be a sequel to ninja scroll and which of course isn not true . i have to watch the whole thing and because i have to see how it end . any minute and and it would get good and it would show purpose . but it do not end . it one thing to fill it with the most graphic depiction of gore the animator could conjure and but it another to have it all mean nothing in the end . a pointless and nihilistic waste of shelf space .