Shura no Toki – Age of Chaos

Mutsuen Meiryū Gaiden: Shura no Toki (陸奥圓明流外伝 修羅の刻) Even since the Heian era, the members of the Mutsu family have practiced an unarmed martial art, the Mutsu Enmei Ryuu. They walked the path of the undefeated and were called the Shura,

The 15-volume-manga, published by Koudansha since 1989, contains eight story arcs. The anime contains three of them. The first revolving around Mutsu Yakumo in the early Edo era, the second revolving around his son Mutsu Takato, and the third revolving a descendant of the Mutsu family, Mutsu Izumi, during the Bakumatsu era.