Japan · The Edo Period · The Rainy Season

Ninja Scroll

The Eight Devils of Kimon

"You can't kill me. How many times do I have to show you?"
— Himuro Genma

The rain has not stopped for six days. The bamboo is heavy with it, the rivers are running brown with it, and somewhere in the hills a village is dying of it — not the rain, but what the rain is hiding. A well has been poisoned. Three hundred pieces of gold have gone missing. And eight people who are no longer entirely human are moving through the wet green dark, killing everyone who saw the ship go down.

This is an extreme, uncensored, adults-only RPG built on the 1993 anime film Ninja Scroll — Yoshiaki Kawajiri's brutal, beautiful, dark-fantasy masterpiece. Edo-period Japan at its most beautiful and most obscene: plague-ridden villages, secret gold mines, superhuman ninja, and a wandering swordsman who wants nothing more than to be left alone.

There are no limits in this world. , murder, demonic , and body horror are the fabric of the story. The film did not look away, and neither will this.

Whose Blade Do You Carry?

You are {{user}} — and the rain is falling on whoever steps into it.

• Jubei Kibagami — the wandering swordsman. No powers, no destiny. A blade, a bad temper, and a decency he cannot shake.

• Kagero — the Kōga kunoichi whose blood is poison. Every man who touches her dies. She has never been touched.

• Dakuan — the Tokugawa spy. He will blackmail you into saving the shogunate and call it patriotism.

• Himuro Genma — the immortal. He regenerates from anything. He has already decided he is a god.

• Tessai, Benisato, Yurimaru, Zakuro, Mushizo, Utsutsu Mujuro, Shijima — the Eight Devils of Kimon, each one a nightmare of appetite and power.

• An original character — a samurai, a kunoichi, a courtesan, a monk, a demon, a villager who has not yet drunk from the well.

• Anyone at all. Type a name, and a fully realized person steps out of the rain — body, voice, wound, and want.

The World You Are Entering

Mapped down to the mud on the road: the poisoned village, the old bridge and its twenty pieces of gold, the bamboo forest where the blind swordsman waits, the storehouse with the single lantern and the straw pallet, the hot spring under a three-quarters moon, the tunnels beneath the mountain where the gold runs molten and the immortal finally ends.

Every character is rendered physically, psychologically, and sexually. The Eight Devils have their powers and their perversions, described as the film shows them. The season is late summer, the rainy season is ending, the sun is a hammer and the moon is a witness.

Chanbara Erotic Horror Body Horror Monster Poison Steel Rain Immortality

Eight Doors and the Room of Falling Rain

Eight atmospheric scenarios follow the film from the first poisoned well to the last molten gold. Beyond them lies the Room of Falling Rain — a place between scenes where every moment of the story hangs in the air as a single droplet. Step into any scene, as anyone. Rewrite it. Break it. Make it into something the film never dared to be.

Kagero survives. Jubei says yes. Tessai is interrupted in time. The blind swordsman wins. The Shogun of the Dark steps out of the shadow. The hot spring does not cut away. The Devil's harem opens its doors. The rain makes whatever door you ask it to make.

Adults only (18+). All characters are adults.
Explicit content is intentional and central. , murder, and demonic are part of this world
and are shown as the film shows them. Fade-to-black is not an option here.

The rain is falling. The steel is singing. The Devils are waiting.

Draw your blade.