Basilisk: Kouga Ninpouchou
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

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It surprised me when I learned that the novel Basilisk adapted, 'The Kouga Ninja Scrolls', came out in 1959--many decades before Battle Royale. The idea of forcing people to kill each other until there is only one/a few left is a simple one, but the way human nature is depicted with the violence, rape and whatnot that follows in this two is very striking. Survival series without morality bullshit is the way I would describe them. Basilisk is a ninja warfare period piece. Battle Royale is set in a modern day, alternate history Japan and involves high school kids killing each other. But the insanity that results when characters are given 'do or die' choices is very similar. Prepare for characters you grow attached to dying! read more 

Yagyu was created by the same artist/author as Basilisk. The art, as well as the execution, is very similar. You could actually describe Yagyu as a sequel--its story occurring not too long after Basilisk's end. Where as Basilisk involved two ninja clans with a lot of hatred for the other being forced into a 10 vs. 10 battle to the death, Yagyu has a war of the sexes theme. At the start, seven of Aizu's strongest warriors - warriors working for the evil lord Akinari - are forcing a rebel Aizu faction to walk many miles to their execution ground; tied up and dragged by dogs. But, instead of being taken to their place of execution, they're instead taken to the convent where their wives and daughters are hiding, following the failed rebellion. The seven Aizu men break down the gate of the convent - entering a female only sanctuary - and start killing the women in front of the men. In the end, only seven of the women survive, and that's where the Yagyu story begins proper. The main difference between Basilisk and Yagyu is that the girls have justice on their side. In Basilisk neither side were fully in the right, and that made it easy for the numbers to decrease evenly on both sides. But, in the case of Yagyu, the girls are trained to get revenge on evil men; men lead by a man who kidnaps, rapes, and murders the women in his province for fun many times over the course of the story. The end result is the women surviving and the men not, and that has, to a certain extent, taken away the kind of intensity that the shorter, far less predictable Basilisk had. What Yagyu does have going for it are the strategies Jyubei comes up with that allow the seven women to get their revenge. Jyubei mostly just trains the women and comes up with strategies for them to kill vastly superior opponents. The variation between the mini-arcs where his plans play out are what make Yagyu so gripping to read. For example, in one part, Jyubei and one of the women act as husband and wife in order to get themselves kidnapped and, by doing so, infiltrate enemy territory. Seven volumes in, out of what I believe to be eleven volumes total, Yagyu has been well worth the money paid for it. It is inferior to the faster-paced, more tragic Basilisk, and there is a bizarre amount of very nice nudity present in the story, mainly as a result of one of the main villains being an evil rapist guy, but I can't knock it too much. The art is distinctive, the small bits of humour have amused me (such as when Jyubei opened his eye after acting blind during one of his plans, saw two of the girls naked, and they blushed/hid behind another, tomboyish character), and the action has been intense. read more 

It shows detailed and often historically accurate depictions of ninja clans and of their relationships with the Shogunate ( Bakufu ). Plus shinobi on shinobi action. However, I'd say Basilisk is easier to delve into but Shinobi no kuni is more rewarding and feels more original to Japanese values such as the loyalty, sacrifice. It's more adult and made me cry in the end, no easy feat for a manga. 

Although Basilisk is based around ninjutsu techniques, and Jujutsu Kaisen around cursed techniques, the characters utilizing said techniques get extremely creative with how they can come through. Very imaginative and gorey from both sides. Two of the characters from both Basilisk and Jujutsu have also very similar techniques and character creation. In both stories there are also clans/houses that have specific bloodline. 

Tragedy and action follow the protagonists of both manga which feature beautifully illustrated scenes adult in nature.  

Ninjas fighting ninjas for the sake of the clan! Plenty of flashy, unique, interesting and deadly techniques on both titles with plenty of sexy under-dressed kunoichis  

REAL NINJAS kill people and do stealth. ...okay, no! Definately not an insult. NARUTO actually inspired me to look for Basilisk, when I wanted to look for an impressive "historical drama" work centered around ninja. Basilisk is more for mature readers. The ninja here also have interesting inborn abilities. 

1. Both are set in the Samurai era Japan and involves plenty of death at the hands of either ninjas or samurai. 2. Both title also has a fair amount of adult scenes. 3. Both have very detailed art, the attention to detail is very impressive indeed 4. Both have very good fight scenes 

Both Manga have Violence and Nudity, although the setting is very different (Ninjas X Aliens) both have the same dark atmosphere surrounding them, from the unwillingness of the main character to fight, the relationship of the characters they are both pretty similiar