Audience reviews
13 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
chumchummaru
Compared to the movie, it's a big disappointment. Personally, I didn't expect anything from it, since the rating spoke for itself, but I didn't expect such predictable boredom. The plot reminds me of those older ecchi series, where the plot appeared only at the beginning and the end and the rest was just mindless fanservice. Juubee works similarly. At the beginning, something is outlined, but then it's replaced by endless fights and the endless escape of one FMC, and only at the end does it return to the plot so that it doesn't say that it has none. As for the drawing/animation, it's also a disappointment, especially compared to the movie. Although it was in 4:3 format, which I like, but unfortunately in this case it was irrelevant, since it doesn't save my own feelings about the anime. If…
Read at the sourceReddington_BL
I loved the movie, and despite a lot of the unneeded sexual stuff, it's one of my favorites so far. This series is a let down. The animation/graphics dropped tenfold in quality. As an example, look at Dakuan in the movie and then here. Look at Kagero in the movie, and look at Shigure. Shigure is still beautiful and sexy, don't get me wrong, but the quality difference is VERY obvious.
Sadly, like the movie, this show did have some intense sexual violence, it even went further than the movie with actual rape - twice. What the fuck is wrong with the writers? We should definitely check their search history.
Yes, the series had some funny moments, but none of it made up for how much of a downgrade the show was to the movie. It legitimately feels like the writers didn't expect the movie to do…
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Horrible. Watched this show thinking it would be like the movie and it's a complete waste of time. One of the worst animes I've seen. Every episode is copied and pasted from the previous episode, every villain is a nameless shmuck and the concepts and goals of the main characters, who are all extremely flat and vanilla, are never explained or contextualized in the story. The art style was fine but nothing great that left any impressions. The ending also makes zero sense. Nothing about this show is compelling unless you just really really loved Jubei in the movie and are dying to see more of him.
Read at the sourceardaarsen01
Very cheap overly heroised freebooter support characters, picked up by the main character on the roadside... A common point of shounen animes sadly.
The anime is supposed to follow one single storyline but since the plot is kind of falling apart there is an episodic feeling. It doesnt have the depth of Basilisk for sure. It is more like a showdown anime. Show gives you no clue about evil doers. There are just some problem guys that needs to be sliced up.. You could call it your average half-season anime, saves the day..
If you want to put your brain into powersave mode and wanna see some slice action I guess you could give it a try.
This show reminds me of a few:
*Basilisk
*Dororo
* a tiny pinch of Demon Slayer
* a single grain of Samurai champloo
* and also, I cant stop thinking about…
Read at the sourceM3Cyberpunk
The movie was absolutely splendid & has no significant connection to the series,So do watch It If you are into Samurai/Ninja based supernatural animes but The Anime series failed miserably to deliver the enjoyment I got from the Movie,So The Series was a huge dissapointment.
The Series story revolves around a princess who is supposedly the key to unlocking an ancient treasure & two clans fighting agains each other to acquire that treasure while a wandering Samurai gets dragged into the clash between them & so on.
The Animation/Artstyle was standard enough considering the time when It came out,Madhouse Studios Productiom BTW.
The action scenes were too short & too simple..Several ninja's that appear with individual supernatural powers were amusing but they failed to bring out the enjoyment…
Read at the sourceMrromeijn
Well since I am not gonna piss anybody of with this one, the kid gloves... stay on. It is not nice to excessively hurt a dying anime.
This is the anime about the well known movie and it failed to deliver on the enjoyment that we got from the movie.
The story is an a quest to get the ninja scroll from the title, but weird stuff is in the way. This normally would earn any other anime a 4 to a 5, but here I had the movie in the back of my mind and that made the story worse then I expected. It was a steeper slope down from the movie to the anime then I expected.
The art and sound are very standard for an anime from the time so that is just fine.
Characters... Well... Juubee is in it again and he is still fun, the problem is not him, it is the others. Juubee helps people that never come bac…
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I actually enjoyed this anime...well I found it 'somewhat' entertaining to be exact. I'd rate it overall as a 6.8/10.
The story is pretty basic if you're familiar with this type of ronin/ninja genre in anime. Princess is being chased by bad guys, runs into a strong ninja/samurai and they end up journeying together while he protects her. Then some others end up tagging along with them on their journey. Im sort of fan of this type of thing so you can count that as part of why I found this entertaining when some others did not.
I have to admit the story dosent draw you in all that much but there's definitely a progressive story holding everything together. This is probably because for an anime with a progressive storyline, it feels very episodic. Most of the episodes seemed put together s…
Read at the sourceHeavenforge
Well it was a good anime, but the story killed it, the story was a fail, which made the anime look crappy and not so enjoyably at the end. I was waiting for some better ending, maybe this explains why the ranking and the score for this anime is so low. but the movie was good, people should still check it out even you might be discouraged from this review.I'd say the movie had a powerful ending compared to this series. Lastly, this anime is a good watch if your into bloody action and twisted characters and gotno other anime to watch.
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If you are looking for the story creativity and mood of ninja scroll well this isn't it. If you liked jubei and want to see him fight some more while hanging around a familiar old face (that he does not remember) it is worth it to watch. The fights were slick looking and not drawn out and out of all that is different jubei's attitude remains the same and that puts a smile on my face.
Read at the sourceKoolag1
I'm a big fan of ninja and samurai stuff and a big fan the Ninja Scroll movie so was interested in the series and after watching the series can see why it is not liked. Now i did not expect it to be as good as the film but thought it might have been better than it actually came out like.
However I cannot fully dislike the series but I cannot fully like it either as its just luke warm all the way through, there is nothing grabs the viewers attention. It is better than Shigurui but not by much.
This series could have been good but fails, so so buy or watch the film but only watch the series if there is nothing else to watch.
Read at the sourceMilk-plus__
Throughout this entire series I was up and down in deciding whether it was good or bad. I decided it is neither. Ninja Scroll: The Series is beyond the scope of simple definitions such as good or bad. It is B-movie! The only, and best, way to describe this anime is through comparing it to classic American B-movies, so I'd say you could call it B-anime.
Most of you will be going into the series after watching the movie, which I admit was much better, and so will most likely be disappointed. That's because you'll also expect the same quality, but I'm warning you that you'll discover something entirely different. And that's whether your sense of humor can overcome your sense of quality. I guess mine can occasionally experience a power surge, because the Ninja Scroll series made me laugh out…
Read at the sourceHuntsman
What a terrible anime.
I truly had high hopes for the Ninja Scroll anime series, based of the classic anime movie. Boy I was in for a major disappointment. The anime takes place fourteen years after the movie following Kibagami Jubei who's still roaming Japan and meets Shigure a priestess and things go down hill fast from there. Ninja Scroll the movie was a classic. The story was concise, the animation was great, the action was exciting and the characters were interesting. The series on the other hand was the complete reverse. The story was unbelievable and the tone of the anime had no drama for the story. The animation wasn't very good. The music was good, and that's the only thin that kept it from getting the one. The characters weren't interesting and you couldn't care about, even Jube…
Read at the sourcePhill-z
After watching the original movie and falling in absolute love with it I learned of the TV series. I was so ecstatic to watch what I thought would be an incredible series, to say I was dissapointed would be an understatement.
Story: This isn't where this anime fails. In fact I don't even mind the story, it's interesting but not incredibly original. Everyone wants to kill Shigure and there's only Jubei and two minor characters to protect her. Storyline progression isn't that great, I found myself in the 5th episode going "is something going to happen?"
Animation: Watching this anime didn't make my eyes carefully try to understand what I was seeing. Sometimes when I'm watching an anime (mainly Gankutsuou) I read the subtitles as quickly as possible so i can appreciate the art. Not so here…
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