Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL
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- 1EP 1recap
Recap of early series events including Manji and Rin's initial encounters
Oct 10, 2019This 2008 recap details the beginning of the series, covering the death of Manji's sister Machi and his subsequent slaughter of the responsible ronin. It also depicts the massacre of the Asano family and Rin Asano's first meeting with Yaobikuni before she seeks out Manji. The narrative follows Manji's decision to assist Rin, culminating in her encounter with Sabato Kuroi and his eventual slaying by Manji. These events establish the foundational backstory and character motivations that drive the early plot forward, providing context for the ongoing conflict and relationships between the main figures involved in the story.
- 2EP 2
Manji and Rin seek Master Sori's help for revenge against the Ittou-ryuu, leading to a violent confrontation.
Oct 10, 2019Manji and Rin visit Master Sori to recruit him against the Ittou-ryuu. Rin reveals she knows he is a shogunate spy, causing Manji to leave. Rin is attacked by Ittou-ryuu followers, and Manji returns to kill them but gets pinned by tree spikes. Sori wakes when blood hits his face and kills the leader. He later pays Rin for a color for his art. Rin takes Manji's weapons to a blacksmith and sees her father's sword. The owner, Magatsu, offers to sell it if she reveals the Asano dojo daughter's location. Suspecting Rin, Magatsu fights Manji that night. Both are severely injured, but Manji retrieves the sword.
- 3EP 3
Makie fights Manji and rejects her past while Rin defends him.
Oct 17, 2019Makie attempts to seduce Manji in an alley, revealing her Ittou-ryuu origins before he defeats her. She later meets Anotsu on a bridge, rejecting his claim that he desires her as a woman. After Anotsu leaves, she defeats three swordsmen sent by her former employer by cutting her hair and slaughtering them. Makie then engages Manji in a vicious battle in narrow laneways, where she slashes off his limbs and impales him with his own sword. Though shocked by her brutality, she continues fighting after Manji encourages her. Rin arrives to defend Manji, and when Makie questions the necessity of bloodshed for revenge, Rin states that killing for family is superior to killing for self-justification. Makie departs, declining to rejoin her sister O-Hatsu in the red light district, and leaves a note for Anotsu announcing her departure from the Ittou-ryuu.
- 4EP 4
Rin faces Kagehisa Anotsu, who critiques her knife techniques and clan traditions.
Oct 24, 2019Kagehisa Anotsu recalls childhood trauma where Makie saved him from dogs, only to be beaten by his grandfather Saburou Anotsu for her rival clan ties despite her combat prowess. In the present, Rin attacks Kagehisa Anotsu in the forest with knives, but he easily deflects them, leaving only one wound. He explains their families' feud stems from opposing views on traditional swordsmanship versus pragmatic victory. Kagehisa Anotsu returns her weapons, noting her reliance on knives violates Mutenichi-ryuu tradition. After he leaves, Rin weeps in despair. Later, Kagehisa Anotsu remembers inheriting Ittou-ryuu after his grandfather’s companion killed him, allowing Kagehisa Anotsu to pursue his unique fighting style.
- 5EP 5
Manji and Rin face Eiku Shizuma, who traps Rin to lure Manji into a deadly confrontation.
Oct 31, 2019Manji and Rin rest at an inn where Manji meets Eiku Shizuma, who offers help finding Anotsu. After Manji refuses, Shizuma attacks, and they fatally wound each other. Shizuma, also immortal, departs, but Manji suffers as poison from Shizuma’s dagger kills his bloodworms. Rin administers Asano family antitoxin and leaves for a doctor, encountering an old woman disguised as Yaobikuni. This is a trap by Shizuma to kidnap Rin and draw out Manji. Shizuma reveals he became immortal two hundred years ago during the Sengoku period but lost everything. He offers Rin his blood to grant immortality, but Manji, partially recovered, interrupts. Rin creates a distraction, allowing Manji to impale Shizuma with his own poisoned sword, ending his life. Shizuma’s final words reveal Anotsu is heading to Kaga. Rin questions if immortality only prolongs the pain of unfulfilled goals.
- 6EP 6
Rin defends Renzo from an arrogant samurai while Manji confronts the boy's father Araya Kawakami.
Nov 7, 2019Rin endures rude behavior from young Renzo Kawakami, recalling her grandfather's advice against revenge. Manji meets Araya Kawakami, who reveals past ties to the Ittou-ryuu. An arrogant samurai blames Renzo for a broken sandal, but Rin defends the boy, mentioning her Asano dojo background. The samurai mocks her and acts inappropriately, so Rin fixes the sandal and visits the Kawakami home without her sword. She tells Araya about her parents' murder two years prior. Araya recognizes her as the daughter of the couple he killed and sends Renzo away. When Rin demands an apology instead of vengeance, Araya attacks. Manji intervenes, killing Araya in a duel. Renzo returns and stabs Manji, who feigns death. Rin convinces Renzo that Manji is dead to prevent further revenge, and Manji later reattaches his severed arm.
- 7EP 7
Magatsu survives ambush and leaves Ittou-ryuu while Shira attacks Rin and Manji
Nov 14, 2019Magatsu survives an ambush in a Kago and learns his employer was Akagi. He arrives at the Ittou-ryuu dojo as Kagimura Habaki departs. Learning the school will be retained by the Shogunate, Magatsu leaves due to his hatred of samurai. Chogo Morozumi is killed by Giichi, who extracts names of masters. Vice-captain Ken'ei Fusano is poisoned by Hyakurin disguised as a geisha. Magatsu rejects O-Ren’s plea to stay and departs. Shira, acting on Hyakurin’s orders, finds and cruelly kills O-Ren. He then assaults Rin at Rin and Manji’s hut, revealing he is from Mugai-ryuu, an enemy of Ittou-ryuu. When Manji leaves to retrieve his sword, Shira feeds Rin meat, claiming it is wild boar. He then reveals he killed and cooked her dog, sickening her with his cruelty.
- 8EP 8
Rin and Manji confront Shira after a deceptive trap set by the Ittou-ryuu forces a violent confrontation.
Nov 21, 2019Rin and Manji meet Shira and Hyakurin at the Mugai-ryuu to plan against the Ittou-ryuu. Magatsu returns to find O-Ren dead. Hyakurin learns from her spy Makoto that Anotsu disguises himself as a geisha to enter the Kobotoke gate. Rin helps identify the figure, but Shira and Rin are lured into a trap by a hired prostitute. The Ittou-ryuu, with Saikaya and Sei disguised as pharmacists, attack. Shira kills the pharmacists and assaults the woman. Rin draws her sword, but Shira disarms her. Manji arrives, severs Shira's hand, and Shira flees in shock. Manji witnesses the violence and fears locals will blame them for the bloodbath and the dead pharmacists.
- 9EP 9
Rin navigates deception and danger while seeking passage through a guarded gate with the help of reluctant locals.
Nov 28, 2019Rin meets a mysterious ronin from the Shingyoto-ryu Ibane School who warns her of danger. At the Ohara tea stop, she discovers a wanted poster for herself and Manji. Seeking to bypass the Kobotoke gate, Rin asks a nearby Nakamaya couple for assistance in posing as family members. After they initially refuse, citing a tragic story of a prostitute executed three years prior, she persuades them to help. Nakamaya escorts her to the gate, where Commissioner Shamada conducts a thorough interrogation. Nakamaya’s wife provides convincing details, including a fabricated cesarean scar, allowing them to pass. Upon reflection, Rin notes that the wife kept half of her payment for the significant risk involved in aiding her escape.
- 10EP 10
Rin travels to Kaga while Manji seeks a pass and Shira returns to Hyakurin.
Dec 5, 2019Rin journeys to Kaga, surviving by foraging. Manji meets a man offering a pass and encounters Magatsu. Shira returns to Hyakurin and Shinriji, claiming to seek Giichi, then departs. Kinuka and the Ittou-ryuu, guided by Shira, attack them. They capture Hyakurin and kill Shinriji when he intervenes. Kinuka’s group tortures and rapes Hyakurin to extract Mugai-ryuu information. Giichi finds Shinriji’s body, tracks the attackers, and kills Kinuka in combat. A guard threatens Hyakurin, but she frees herself using a blade from her shoe and kills him. Giichi reports the events and tends to Hyakurin, who sleeps for three days, dreaming of her past. She subsequently cuts her hair and places the locks on Shinriji’s grave.
- 11EP 11
Manji and Magatsu confront Shira while Rin encounters Anotsu after collapsing.
Dec 12, 2019Manji and Magatsu arrive at Uenohara, where they are ambushed by Shina, who now has white hair and hired swordsmen. Shira cuts off Manji’s hand, but Manji reattaches it and retreats to allow Magatsu to avenge O-Ren’s death. Shira injures Magatsu using sharpened forearm bones, prompting Manji to engage Shira, who escapes once more. While Manji fights the swordsmen, Magatsu pursues Shira for a bloody duel that leaves both heavily wounded. When Shira hangs from a cliff by one hand, Magatsu severs it, causing Shira to fall into the river below. Manji gives Magatsu half the stolen money and departs for Kaga. Meanwhile, Rin collapses from exhaustion and hunger, only to be discovered by Anotsu.
- 12EP 12
Anotsu battles Shingyoyo-ryu while suffering from tetanus before dying in combat.
Dec 19, 2019Shingyoyo-ryu dojo members find Anotsu and Rin, but he defeats them with his axe. Anotsu explains he traveled to Kaga for the dojo, which was destroyed by the Shogunate, leading followers to blame him. He shelters with Rin in a cave, then visits Makie in a village, spending the night with her before heading to Takayama. Anotsu realizes he has tetanus from an earlier fight. More Shingyoyo-ryu swordsmen attack, and Rin helps the weakened Anotsu defeat them. In Edo, Kagimura Habaki hosts a banquet for Ittou-ryuu. Meanwhile, Shingyoyo-ryu capture Rin and force her to lead them to Anotsu. Manji, Magatsu, and Makie arrive. Makie slaughters the attackers. The remaining leader challenges Anotsu, who accepts a sword thrust to kill him. Rin leaves with Manji, vowing to kill Anotsu.
- 13EP 13
Mugai-ryuu Banquet Massacre and Manji's Capture by Habaki
Dec 26, 2019At a banquet hosted by Kagimura Habaki for Ittou-ryuu dojo leaders, nine are killed while Sosuke Abayama survives because he was outside. Giichi collects payment from Habaki and demands Hyakurin, but Habaki refuses. Anotsu, blaming his own complacency for the massacre, decides the remaining Ittou-ryuu leaders should separate and hide until winter. Abayama kills Makoto for leaking information. Giichi offers Rin and Manji a chance to join Mugai-ryuu, but Manji refuses and defeats Giichi in combat, agreeing to meet Habaki. Habaki tests Manji's immortality by stabbing him, then captures him. Manji wakes chained in a dungeon. Meanwhile, Rin is taken by Hyakurin for food. Back at their hut, Rin is awakened by Ittou-ryuu fighters Doa Yoshino and Isaku Yasonokami seeking shelter.
- 14EP 14
Habaki orders Ayame Burando to test Manji's immortality while Rin seeks him.
Jan 2, 2020Habaki tasks surgeon Ayame Burando with testing Manji's immortality within eight days to help prisoner Dewanosuke. Rin allows Doa Yoshino and Isaku Yasonokami to stay, then searches for Manji, learning Mugai-ryuu disbanded. Burando attempts live dissection, but Manji's self-healing body injures him, sparking an idea. Manji and Dewanosuke plan escape, but Habaki intervenes, severing both their right hands. Burando stitches Manji's hand onto Dewanosuke, which heals rapidly, suggesting transferred immortality. Habaki then plans a larger body-switching experiment and summons beheader Yamada Asaemon.
- 15EP 15
Burando's Failed Immortality Experiments and the Capture of Doa and Isaku
Jan 16, 2020Asaemon Yoshihiro Yamada prepares to execute Manji and Dewanosuke, but Dewanosuke appears to gain immortality, earning Burando a reprieve. Kagimura tests Dewanosuke by stabbing his heart, killing him, yet demands Burando continue the experiment. Burando fails with new subjects, driving him toward insanity as Kagimura grants a ten-day deadline. During a search for victims, Kagimura’s men encounter Doa Yoshino, Isaku Yasonokami, and Rin. Doa kills most attackers, but Isaku throws the women into a river and is captured due to his Christian pacifism. Revitalized, Burando resumes experiments with animal masks, horrifying assistant Toraeman. By day 65, Burando has collected significant data on blood affinities and immortality despite the earlier failures.
- 16EP 16
Doa infiltrates the prison to find Isaku while Burando succeeds in his experiments.
Jan 23, 2020Rin escorts Doa to a prison to locate Iasku, prompting Doa to remember their past as traveling companions. She uncovers details about experiments and plans to enter the secret Fukiage facility. Burando tells Kagimura his tests succeeded. Hyaku attempts to abort her pregnancy with Giichi, but he stops her. Doa and Rin attack the underground prison while women protest outside. They trigger a trap by Lord Sakura. Rin takes blame, but Doa frees herself, kills the guards, and stabs Sakura. Rin explodes the entrance, alerting the prison. They encounter zombie-like immortals and see discarded bodies from Burando's experiments. Doa sadly discovers the upper half of Isaku's severed body.
- 17EP 17
Rin frees Manji from prison while Burando falls and Yamada meets his end.
Jan 30, 2020Rin locates Manji in the underground prison but is intercepted by Burando. She utilizes her new combat abilities to defeat him and liberate Manji. Concurrently, Toraeman permits anxious wives and mothers to enter the prison gates to locate their relatives. As Rin works to remove Manji’s shackles, Kagimura arrives. Rin creates a distraction, allowing Manji to throw a hairpin into Kagimura’s eye, which is contaminated by bodily fluids, leading to his death from poisoning. Yamada appears but is followed by Doa and Isaku, who survived after Doa reconnected his severed body parts. Yamada confesses to cutting Isaku, prompting Doa to attack him. Yamada nearly slices the iron plate in her hat but is interrupted by flooding water. Manji kills Yamada during the chaos and escapes with Rin. Outside, guard dissent leads some to allow women into the compound, preventing conflict. Burando later destroys his notes, acknowledging the futility of seeking immortality. Rin and Manji recover and part ways with Isaku and Doa, who gives Rin an Ainu tradition memento.
- 18EP 18
Kagimura hunts Ittou-ryuu after Fukiage incident while Hanabusa takes hostages in Edo.
Feb 6, 2020After the Fukiage incident, Habaki Kagimura plans to destroy the Ittou-ryuu within 30 days despite being ordered to commit suicide. Hanabusa Ugen assumes Kagimura’s former role, meeting Anotsu and granting the Ittou-ryuu seven days to leave Edo. Hanabusa takes hostages to cover for Kagimura, but Shima views this as discourteous. Ryo attacks Hanabusa’s men recklessly, prompting Shima to surrender herself and son Sakutaro to custody. Kagimura tracks the Ittou-ryuu to a booby-trapped dojo, losing many men before they escape. Ryo pursues them but is defeated by Magatsu. Hanabusa orders Kagimura to surrender the Rokki-dan, but Shima intervenes. Sakutaro apologizes for his poor sword skills before Shima kills him and then herself. Horrified by the bloodshed, Kagimura demands twenty days to kill Anotsu, threatening Hanabusa if he interferes.
- 19EP 19
Anotsu attacks Hanabusa's castle with Manji and Ittou-ryuu recruits to seize control of swordsmanship instruction.
Feb 13, 2020Anotsu evades the Rokki-dan with Rin's help, having feigned travel to Satsuma. He demands Manji's presence for a confrontation. Meanwhile, Sousuke Abayama directs Ittou-ryuu recruits to distract the Rokki-dan. Spies Meguro and Tanpopo are injured by Shogunate troops and rescued by Rin, leading to mutual identity revelations at a clinic run by a former assistant to Burando. Anotsu, joined by Manji and elite Ittou-ryuu members, assaults Hanabusa's castle. They defeat the Oban and Kosho squad captains, capturing Hanabusa. The group forces him to agree that the Ittou-ryuu will direct Shogunate swordsmanship education, then discards him into the moat.
- 20EP 20
Shira confronts Meguro and Tanpopo, capturing Rin and challenging Manji to a lethal duel near a frozen lake.
Feb 27, 2020Shira forces Meguro and Tanpopo to reveal Manji’s location before abducting Rin, tying her to a stone in a freezing lake. He challenges Manji to a duel, revealing he has reattached his severed forearm to gain immortality. Manji breaks off the fight to rescue Rin, but she sinks. Shira recovers from wounds inflicted by Anotsu and Magatsu, attacking Magatsu with blades. Tanpopo attempts to save Rin while Meguro fights Shira, only to be impaled by Magatsu. Manji re-engages Shira, and they mutilate each other. Shira realizes his wounds fail to heal because his bloodworms cannot repair his body as quickly as Manji’s. Magatsu helps Manji deliver the final blow. Shira is later torn apart by wild dogs while warning Renzo against vengeance.
- 21EP 21
Renzo seeks revenge on Manji while Ryo survives Koji's carbon dioxide trap.
Mar 5, 2020Meguro, Tanpopo, and Magatsu shelter from snow while Rin and Manji recover. Renzo attempts to sever Manji's arms for revenge, but Magatsu advises him to learn about his father first. Ryo joins Ban, Lord Habaki's man, to hunt Koji's Ittou-ryuu band. Ryo suspects Ban plans to desert, but they face booby traps set by Koji. Ban dies from carbon dioxide fumes released from jars in the woods. Koji kills the hallucinating Ban and pursues the fume-sick Ryo. She defeats him using a trap of her own. Lord Mitake finds Ryo and takes her to Giichi for protection, as she holds the last of Kagimura's blood. Meanwhile, Kagimura intends to eliminate the remaining Ittou-ryuu members before they can reunite.
- 22EP 22
Rokki-dan fighters attack Ittou-ryuu camp while Giichi severely beats Abayama
Mar 12, 2020Shishiya Arashino, Tarieshin Hasshu, and Shozo Murasaki deliver Yatsushiba’s head to Ittou-ryuu. Giichi and Hyakurin challenge Sousuke Abayama, who loses focus and is nearly killed. Meanwhile, the Rokki-dan defeats weaker opponents, but Kunimitsu Amon kills Shozo Murasaki with acid. Kagimura orders sailors slaughtered to prevent escape from Nakaminato. He encounters Makie on the final boat, but Manji intervenes to save her before arrows strike from incoming ships.
- 23EP 23
Arrows rain down as Rin is saved by Anotsu while Manji kills Arashino and Makie is shot.
Mar 19, 2020Arrows fired from offshore ships strike the wharves, causing panic. Rin falls behind but is rescued by Anotsu, who tells her to follow. Kagimura divides his forces to target Manji and Rin, attack Makie, and prepare for a duel with Anotsu Kagehisa. Meanwhile, Magatsu discovers and rescues the injured Ryo in the snow. Arashino severely wounds Manji, but Rin pleads for his life, buying time for Manji to regenerate and kill Arashino. Anotsu and Kagimura fight to a standstill. Ryo intervenes for her father, but he refuses her help. Makie arrives after defeating her opponents but is suddenly struck down by a volley of gunshots.
- 24EP 24
Manji defeats Anotsu while Rin kills him, leading to years of farming and a new mission in Tokyo.
Mar 26, 2020Hanabusa’s forces, including shinobi Meguro and Tanpopo, are killed by a dying Makie. Hanabusa flees through snow but is split in two by Anotsu with Kagimura’s approval. Kagimura dies in Anotsu’s first strike during their duel. Manji attacks Anotsu to honor his promise to Rin, who watches with Hyakurin. Manji severs Anotsu’s right arm but spares his life, claiming he is dead. As Anotsu boards a ship, Rin stabs him to death. Magatsu begins farming, and Renzo returns to painting under master Sori, annoying his daughter Tatsubo. In Shimbara, Isaku, Doa, and later Ozuhan farm. Manji is banished from Edo. Rin visits her family grave and plans to apologize to the Ittou-ryuu victims, accompanied by pregnant Hyakurin. Eighty years later in Tokyo, Manji buries his weapons, watched by Yaobikuni. He vaguely recalls the Ittou-ryuu. Yaobikuni asks him to protect Fuyu, granddaughter of an old friend involved in a leadership dispute. After Fuyu gives him a sheathed knife and drawing, Manji recognizes her as Rin’s great-great-granddaughter and agrees.
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- How many episodes does Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL have?
- Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL has 24 episodes.
- When did Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL come out?
- Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL came out in 2019.
- Which studio made Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL?
- Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL was produced by LIDENFILMS.
- Who directed Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL?
- Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki.
- Is Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL finished?
- Current status of Mugen no Juunin: IMMORTAL: Finished.