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Nightmare Fuel / Ninja Scroll

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  • Highlights include: Tessai’s sickening massacre of the Koga ninja; Benisato using the skin of an old woman filled with serpents so she could lure Jūbei where she wanted to trap him; the death of Mushizo when he falls underwater and is torn apart from the inside out by the hornets trying to escape his body; and of course, Genma’s death scene.
  • If you suffer from trypophobia, try to watch any scene with Mushizo without scratching. You will fail.
  • Genma's ultimate fate, though it was well deserved, is one of the single worst things that could ever happen to a person. After being defeated by Jubei he is thrown into a molten river of boiling gold and sinks into the water amid the ruins of his stolen treasure. Of course, because he cannot actually die this means that his would be "tomb" is more like a prison where he will endlessly suffer agonizingly, forever trapped inside the melted gold encasing his body. It's like being Buried Alive but never receiving the mercy of actually dying. Jubei sure wasn't kidding when he cursed Genma to "Burn in his golden hell forever!" during their climactic fight.

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