Driven by envy towards those blessed with romantic fortune, the spirit manifests as a blood red armor-clad samurai who terrorized brides during their wedding. In the Pacific records, Renki was a mentioned as vengeful spirit born from a couple composed of a commander and a princess torn apart by conflicts that was common in the Sengoku period.
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Renki reappeared in this series in episode 19 as Gurenki ( 紅蓮騎 ( ぐれんき ) Gurenki lit. The samurai armor worn by Renki was never a part of the suit, as director Muraishi borrowed it from a certain period drama.Renki is the second monster after Hoe to be made up from a combination of the feelings of love and vengeance.He is similar to Sakunaoni, since they are ghosts/yokai with advanced swordsmanship and both were defeated by the same enemy.The fate of the two lovers who committed suicide to be together, is similar to the ending of the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare.
But their spirits could not find peace and together they formed the ghostly samurai, Renki and terrorized Japan, but a samurai named Kagetatsu Nishikida appeared and seal the restless spirits beneath the ground sealed by a magic stone.Īs time passed and now in the modern era, two developers destroyed the seal in order to create a dam, freeing Renki to terrorize Japan in the modern era. Two lovers, a soldier general and a princess, from different sides fell in love with each other but they knowing that the war would keep them apart they commited suicide. Sometime ago a civil war raged within Japan.