I had to update this review now that this show is over.. and I must say, this and "I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills" are the dumbest animes that dropped this year.
I was kind excited for this anime when the first trailer dropped out, it showed some blood and good action, but the second trailer just throwed the expectation away with the "school scenario". And now, after seeing some episodes I can say for sure, this anime is very boring and cliché.
It's an original animation from DMM, and the story starts very cliché, the main character is a normal student, until he is attacked and finds suddenly that his mother is the header of a ninja clan and he must succeed her someday. And from that point, he must train to become a ninja.
The characters doesn't stop using the word ninja, as they need to remind you every second that this is a ninja show, even if it doesn't seems. The "ninjas" are most old and stupid people working on companies or small stores, and the "ninja clans" are mostly corporates. To be a ninja on this show, all you need it's a super suit. And the biggest company around town, I meant, biggest ninja clan, wants the legendary battery that Ittoki's clan holds to powerup their suits for unlimited time. Yeah.. this show is all about getting a stupid battery, in other words, making an easy to understand comparison.. it's like Apple want to take down all small companies that uses android and want to steal the battery from Samsung for a new iphone pro max. On this anime, you even have a kind of 'police' that keeps the law and order between the clans (wtf?!)
Points for me that just made this plot dumb, more spoilers ahead
- The mc had a normal life until his is attacked by ninjas, and here he finds that her mother is the head chief of a ninja clan, and now for his own safety, he must become a ninja.. and to become a ninja, he must go to a ninja high-school where the same people who wants to kill him are around (that's how you protect your kids, you send them to the same house where the people who wants to murder them are assembled)
- The 'high-school' plot and concept was dumb. I think they placed this school thing only to show the characters wearing school uniform, because the plot and the ninja theme didn't make a good match here. What's the point of having different ninja clans if they all learn the same stuff in the same place? One of cool things about ninja stories is about having different and unique techniques that make each clan unique, something that you don't have here, as you also don't have the figure of a master and apprentice, or anything that would make a ninja clan unique, on this anime knowing how to use the high-tech ninja suit is the only thing important to become a ninja.
- The mc is just dumb and flat, he trusts everyone and thinks that he lives in the world of telletubbies. On the school's summer vacation, he invites his new 'friends' to the main HQ of his ninja clan. No one suspects about his friends, no one of the clan keeps an eye on them, they can move freely around the HQ and find all the security information about the base without any difficult. He doesn't show any real progress during the story, he was a telletubbie until the last episode.
- Having a kind of special police called ANNIN to keep an eye on each clan also added an useless plot to the story. Police to investigate, keep the law and order between ninja clans? C'mon.. are we really trying to tell a ninja story here?
- The girl (Kousetu) that the Ittoki's mom adopted used a mask for the most of the anime, until she tried to kill her. The mask-off was kind supposed to be a big revelation, but there was nothing uncommon on her face or any explanation for the mask, seems she was just wearing because of the flu I guess. By the way, she was the daughter of the Kouga clan (the one who wants to take the battery and kill Ittoki and his clan/Iga), and she happened to have a microchip on her head that Kouga could control her when needed. Seems the main villain (Kouga's clan boss) spent most of his life making kids with random women and inserted microchips on the kids and sent them to random clans, to be used as weapon someday if needed..
- On the last episode Ittoki just goes to the front door on Kouga's HQ, only to talk with the main villain and see if he confess his crimes (roll-eyes). At first he says that he forgives him for killing his mom.. (man, what a tellettubie), and after a lot of talking, Ittoki plans were only to record Kouga's boss confession on cam so the police (ANINN) could arrest him. (Yes, that's the best plan that Ittoki could had thought, go there only to have a talk and make the villain confess so he could leave the rest for the police.. (here is our main tellettubie hero). By the way, one episode before this one, Tokisada already got a video evidence to arrest Kouga, making all this plot meaningless. And on the last part, Kouga's boss tries to kill Ittoki and is stopped by Tokisada who kills the boss and then become a fugitive from the ninja-police (seems self-defense is not included on the ninja law)
I don't recommend spending time on this show, the plot is really dumb, mc is flat and unlikable. Really.. did they use someone who just graduated from college to write this anime? Or did they hire some 10 years old kid that won some kind of contest to write this story? Because here we have something written by someone who loves telletubies and kamen rider (this anime is a mix of both)
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