sentences: "the Crimson Bat", a female sword fighter, was made in response to the huge success of Zatoichi.Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the "Engetsu" ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom he had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after Kyōshirō was born.