Ittoki the Ninja #02 — Squatting in the Toilet

October 11th, 2022

 

The perfect hiding spot.

Impressions:

Good god, am I already tired of this protagonist. I'm also a little baffled by it trying to make out jury rigging some kind of incendiary in a shopping center as a ninja technique. Or how this mewling idiot was even able to do that in the first place. Sure, it's a weird-ass ninja store filled with ninjas turning a blind eye, but it was also full of a literal army, plus a couple more vigilantes knocking them out and throwing them in the garbage bins outside. This is apparently a school exam, and already raises questions about the logistics just of finding someone, especially when they spend most of it in the bathroom in optical camo. God help you if they were Ikea ninjas. You'd never find anybody or anything in their store.

I guess at least he did something, even if he continued to scream all the way. And the budget hasn't totally collapsed yet. But the first half was basically all spent in meetings, which is also how we ended. The overarching plot is nowhere near as interesting as the show clearly believes it to be. Lean into the martial arts, or even the fanservice, minus the screaming. Your strengths are still quite mediocre, but they sure as hell are not the well thought out setting of who gets to do the paperwork for the gentrified ninja malls of Japan.

 

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