Audience reviews
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Cocolocoviewing7
This series gets 3 stars for the three episodes it has that are actually worth watching. After that the series falls off so hard that I can’t tell you a single thing that happened, I was quite literally on the verge of falling asleep throughout the entire series following the third episode.This series loses all competence and worth the second that it introduces the whole mech thing that they tried to pull off. Maybe the manga is better but the anime felt like my eyes wanted to rip themselves out and smash into each other due to how poorly the animation gets as soon as they incorporate mechs and cg.
Read at the sourceJeeusee
Very good anime until chapter 4.
From this point:
- Mech armor ruins combat. Less blood, less impact, less possibility of complicated strategies, less development of shinobi skills.
- The animation begins to deteriorate. It's not a bad CGI, but it's very poorly implemented.
The mecha battles are simply slashes and sparks, unlike the first combats, where the movements and choreography were better.
- The story stops being interesting. The "villain" turns out to be an idiot. And the Organization, which the exiles fear so much, only the first 4 episodes are really scary. Then they mostly become NPCs waiting to be killed. - Some plotstwist come from nowhere. They have no impact or logical explanation. And I'm not just talking about the story, but there are even scenes that don't make sense…
Read at the sourceMrX867
This had a really strong start but unfortunately it swayed away from what I originally thought this series would be.
When I watched the first 4 or 5 episodes I was super excited thinking that I finally ended up finding a Ninja themed anime series that takes place in a modern time. Unfortunately the series ends up with a big focus on Mecha armor which is used heavily by both antagonists and protagonists. I suppose some folks might not be bothered by this but once the sci-fi armor action began it really started feeling like I was watching action scenes from a completely different series. I personally enjoyed the action a whole lot more when it was folks battling each other without fancy Iron Man-esque suits. I'd also like to mention that these suits are CGI drawn which, in my opinion, doesn…
Read at the sourceKakashiInfinite
Ninja Kamui is an action & fighting anime and it's damn good at it.
Action/fights - that's what promises and it delivers. As simple as that.
Lore - good and interesting enough for such a show; you have some drama, some love, some high-tech bs and some ancient belief system bs. Perfect to explain why people fight.
Philosophy - surprisingly, the show portrays very well the dumb idea that peace & prosperity can be brought by beating the shit out of anyone you don't like and intimidating the rest. It is this kind of stupid ideology that drives the 'alpha male' and dictator types to commit atrocities. Not that violence isn't necessary sometimes, mind you. We need it precisely as a last resort to fight off such assholes.
If a democratic and peaceful country produces lots of such brain-dead…
Read at the sourcevihnyan
man... how can a anime start with amazing fights, cool aniamtions and a pretty brutal revenge plot and then turn out to be almost too boring to finish?
It is incredible how the bad pacing and the Fcking CGI armours could turn a pretty badass anime into a unbearable experience, there isnt much to say tbh... just bad decisions i guess and its a shame cuz the hype was very high.
the characters are charismatic and unique, the fighting scenes are dope with a lot of criativity the plot is about revenge at first then turns out there is a big conspiracy and from this point it goes down hill.
Overall its a pretty MID show with a lot of wasted potential, if you ever watch this you'll be hyped but the disappointment will come.
Read at the sourceMeanEYE
It's a mystery. No, no the show itself, but how can first few episodes be so captivating and well done, only the rest of the show to disappoint. It started very strong, with mysterious story, promising characters, good pacing and damn right awesome choreography only for it to turn into mecha CGI ninja robots and revenge.
When artists bother, animation and drawing style is great. Rich backgrounds, animated perspective shifts, flying cameras and what not. But it seems at one point all of the animators collectively gave up. About half of the episodes in it's all about CGI, shortcuts, repeated shots and the like. Characters are no better either. They start really strong with mature approach, emotion, good acting only to end up being "me kill all" kind of thing.
Story is the most disappointin…
Read at the sourceTheEtherea
What a weird show, what a weird story, what a weird conflict. So much effort was wasted on this show, and it feels so boring.
We have ninjas who moved from Japan to join up with some evil global elites in order to help them to achieve global domination (because who really cares why), and they produce high tech equipment for their "ninjas" including mecha armor, while doing random corpo political bs in the background. OG ninjas had a beef with new ninjas, so new ninjas want to kill OG ninjas who are exiles. MC is one of these OG ninjas, and he wants revenge, because family.
Apparently being a ninja means being in the open, double jumping in the air with a sword, blowing stuff up while wearing a NEON (I kid you not) bright armor. Also being a ninja means being not capable to overcome even…
Read at the sourceACEOFGODS
First few episodes promise cool ninjas, with excellent and interesting ninja techniques, fighting each other in the shadows of a modern-day city setting.
The middle episodes fill in the plot in a way that nobody really asked for, retcons the ninja techniques and turns it into a quasi-mecha anti-corporate battle and the later episodes sees the main character imitating a 'secret ninja art' that he saw once by just repeating the words his opponent said like it's a magic spell instead of a jutsu.
Main character gets progressively weaker with each episode for no other reason than moving the plot forward, I guess?
My suggestion: Avoid watching the anime, maybe watch the action scenes on youtube. There's no coherence between the world's rules, the plot's antics and the combat anyways.
Read at the sourcecaptainkid-tr
I understand why the score started at 8 and then dropped to 7 and will drop even further. Because this anime just a scam. In the first 2-3 episodes: the action, art drawing, animation, fight choreography is excellent. But after that... The story starts as a nice revenge job, but as continues the episodes progress, the mediocre side characters, the empty story that just bad filled, and most importantly, the animation becomes terrible. The anime suddenly turns into mecha after 3-4 episodes and the animation art drawing, fighting, etc. are also very poorly done. All the money was spent on the first 2-3 episodes, the rest is bad and unwatchable. I finished it thanks to the forward button. my overall score is 4/10
Read at the sourceMatinafagh
Well it was an anime which used all its budget on the episode 1&2 fight and I didn't enjoy it.
Art styles was an absolute mid and character was one of most boring shonen one. (It wasn't even a seinen) Bro was a illegal creature in episode 3&4
All of thing about this anime was horrible. a cliché story, one of worst art direction I see in my whole life, a horrible sacrifice which was meaningless and begin illegal from beginning until end...
In the end I don't recommend this to any anime fan for even filling the time
Go rewatch anything and don't see this anime.
Read at the sourceGenossan01
Ninja Kamui initially starts off as a typical runaway ninja story, yet it managed to captivate me despite its clichés. Particularly, the performance of my favorite voice actor, Kenjirou Tsuda, adds an enjoyable layer to the experience. The richness of the story and characters was also something I appreciated.
However, when it comes to the turning point, like many others have complained, the anime shifts to the mecha genre halfway through, which also bothered me. I never quite got accustomed to this genre and found myself watching the remaining battle scenes with a sense of boredom. This transition somewhat contradicted the atmosphere initially established and left me somewhat disappointed as a viewer.
Nevertheless, Ninja Kamui's later episodes were filled with character developments and…
Read at the sourceMasamuneNinjo
I never, EVER seen a new show started off peak and then later on went into the dumper, Ninja Kmaui could've been so good if the direction was different then this.
first off I wanted to throw out is the direction of the mech stuff, it was unfitting, which is the reason why the fights later episodes went into CGI animation but in a very insulting way.
Second the show has bad writing, like how the hell your gonna write something for the plot that went downhill that never makes sense to me?
and Third the characters, I have mixed feeling of it, some characters are good but some of them I just don't care about it.
TBH if they could've kept the 2D animation from the beginning of the show how crazy it went and kept the ninja shtick instead of the mech with better writing direction Ninja Kmaui…
Read at the sourceChinnyGamingYT
Ok so for a start the current reviews l feel are way too harsh for what this anime was. It was really good if you could turn your brain off and watch the beautiful scenes unfold with a semi decent plot for the story. The only big let down was the pacing, since they only had 13 episodes for such a massive project the ending did feel quite rushed but apart from that everything else was pretty good. This is also the reason lm calling out those that left a review 3 eps in cos how the f word are you going to give it a negative when it did really well to hook the audience in and have an exciting start.
Story:6.5/10
Semi decent plot, nothing to make you fall head over heels for it but worked well enough and gives enough time to set it up. I would've liked a little bit more at the start and the…
Read at the sourcewhiteflame55
This series left me frustrated, but I should probably have seen the writing on the wall early on. It's a series that is built on the "style over substance" paradigm, and at least early on, it largely succeeds in that regard. The fight choreography, particularly in the first episode, is pretty incredible and the animation is generally great. Even as we got into later episodes and the fights became more chaotic, making the choreography harder to discern, I could still appreciate some of what they were doing.
Then, several episodes in, we're presented with CGI mech suits. I was initially hesitant about it, since none of them looked that great, but it was still interesting to see how these contributed a new layer to the fights, adding new abilities and fighting styles into the mix (one guy ju…
Read at the sourceScarlet_wolf96
Since I followed episode 1 to episode 13, I never got bored. The story is so interesting that it makes me curious like a roller coaster.
Dark. Emotions. Everything is combined well.
Every fight that shows up can make me hype. I really like fights that are full of gore. What I like the most is when Higan-san uses ninpo or ougi. (I forgot what it's called). It gives me goosebump.
Even though in the end it uses the mecha concept, I don't feel bored. Because I feel that it has become a distinctive feature in this anime.
(Besides, I still listen to the songs Vengeance and Legend begin.)
Even though it was complete, I felt very satisfied. Moreover, because I get a lot of inspiration as a writer.
Read at the sourceJin_HartM1
Ninja Kamui a Hack and Slash, Ninja show in this season of Winter 2024.
From what I see. its a great Action flick-anime with amazing visual
and good audio. The downside is the story/writing of the show.
Animation:
Animation is Great from the fighting sequence, visual effects and filmography of the fight scene. TBH I can see the resemblance of John Wick. TBH its more like both AOT and John Wick. Camera angles are dynamic it enhances the fights so good and have a bit more impact. Its a good sight to see.
- 9/10
Story/Writing:
Now for the Story/writing. Its generic but not in a bad way. Characters and story line are good. I love a good revenge plot but it just lack impact for the characters and their relation with one another and the story itself. This is the only thing that's been botherin…
Read at the sourceKamushii
Ninja Kamui is a good anime, at least, it was for the first 3 episodes. It was really fun to watch with beautiful flowing animation, amazingly choreographed fight scenes, a cool revenge story, and a simple but fun futuristic ninja concept. However, it seems all of the budget and thought process went towards those first 3 episodes. The animation was getting lazy, the plot started getting explained, but it sounded like a toddler wrote it (I'll get to this later), the whole anime just started to get boring because it was spouting meaningless exposition which was occasionally broken up by a short well animated fight, or a lazily animated CGI mecha fight. This had so much potential to become a great anime, and it's sad to see something like this fall apart.
Story: [4/10]
The story follows our…
Read at the sourceUlthos
A young man trains to become a ninja in a secret clan hidden in the mountains of Japan. The clan turns out to be evil, and the young man considers running away with a female colleague. The organization then kills his love interest, giving him cause for revenge. Thus, the protagonist has to use his skills against his malevolent mentors.
This is the premise of a 2009 movie called Ninja Assassin, but it can also work for this anime. The movie, at least, was somewhat entertaining, despite not being memorable. Ninja Kamui can only manage that for the first few episodes, and that is because of the well-made fight scenes alone. The plot is as generic as they come, the basic revenge story we've all seen before (and done better) a thousand times. It doesn't take long before the animation quality —…
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This is my first ever review, I felt like I needed to write one as Ninja Kamui was said to be on the same par as Solo Levelling in terms of the Winter 2024 season. It is important to note I did NOT weekly watch this, I watched the first 12 episodes all at once in a binge and the last one I waited for. I think that's important, as I feel it may be harder to be as immersed and to keep in with the understanding of the show if you're weekly watching (since you're watching other shows alongside).
Overall, it's a 6/10, and had the potential to be a 9/10 for me but I'm now being kind with a 6/10, as I believe it probably could be lower. There were certain really good aspects of this show, but on a whole I don't think it was that good. It just really didn't live up to expectations and the hype of…
Read at the sourceIzanaSolos
Ninja Kamui, the latest offering from action animation extraordinaire, Sunghoo Park, promises intense, gritty close-quarters combat to the forefront. This comes as no surprise, as action of this nature is Park's forte. You may know Park as the director of both the first season and movie of Jujutsu Kaisen, as well as God of Highschool and Garo: Vanishing Line. Action runs in his veins, alongside the immense drugs he must be taking, because he seemingly shoulders single-handedly for almost every episode of this show.
Produced by E&H Productions, a studio founded by Park himself, the core team appears relatively small, with Park at the creative helm. Park's contribution to this show is mind boggling to me, as he's responsible for most of the action from both a directorial and animation pers…
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