Under Ninja

Once believed to be extinct, ninjas have reappeared in contemporary Japan following the Pacific War. With a headcount rumored to be two hundred thousand, these deadly assassins are now tasked with covert operations, infiltrating a significant portion of the nation's public and private institutions in the process.

Among these ninjas is Kurou Kumogakure, who often spends his days in a run-down apartment with no motivation to do much of anything. Some might consider him a useless vagrant who does nothing but steal beer from his neighbor. Nevertheless, the 17-year-old loser might actually be more dangerous than his demeanor suggests. Kurou's hidden potential is put to the test when he is given a new mission to infiltrate a local high school, but there is more to this assignment than he could ever predict.

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Kumogakure, Kurou Main

Ban, Taito Japanese

Russian Foreigner Supporting

Shinomiya, Gou Japanese

Suzuki Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Kawado, Ai Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Hachiya, Shion Supporting

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Sasama Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Katou Supporting

Shingaki, Tarusuke Japanese

Junna's Father Supporting

Yoshida, Akikazu Supporting

Ogino, Seirou Japanese

Mako-chan Supporting

Kawase, Maki Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Cao, Cong Producer

Shioya, Yoshiyuki Producer

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

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Jun 9, 2024

Bluefire3714

Recommended

It's really refreshing to see and lives up to the seinen catagory because of the amount of literal engagement with the audience.

The show was formatted well and feels watching a certain period in history but diggs deep into the characters and events that tells you what you really need to know in order to understand the story to the point where its willing to cut in-between the story. And without doing this there would be plot holes that would leave the audience confused and unsatisfied.

Overall the show was great but had choppy animation that lead me to rate this a 8.75/10!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 11, 2024

XanWasting

Mixed Feelings

The story pacing is messed up. Several first episodes have numerous time jumps, that differ in occurence by HOURS, and the exact timeline isn't presented clearly. It would be much easier to watch if a clear time stamps were provided. You can shove those 1:34PM 24 September 20XX, I can't even finish reading it before the action resumes.
The overarching story, or should I say world situation is similiarly very complex. It is quite compelling actually.
And this story is THE Protagonist. In this anime singular characters don't matter, what matters is painting the ongoing, and escalating conflict between ninja factions. The main cast, secondary cast, none ... of them matter if they're not contributing to this storytelling through either comedic relief or direct involvement (the scale of which goes way over the head of any of them that we get to know, even in passing), and after they're done, they can go fuck right off.

I admit I've never seen game of thrones, but from what tidbits were forced into my throat by people who did watch it, I think it's quite similiar in it's stance to storytelling.
For me it was a good watch, but I'm almost certainly not rewatching this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 2, 2024

ShonerSul

Not Recommended

Summary: Unnecessary back and forth in timeline, boring family-name jokes, sexual contents in unpleasing way, a total mess.

I don't even need to talk about Japanese victim mentality on their forced pacifism (If you want to know in detail, refer to "Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution" in wiki.) to classify this animation as a bad one. I have not read the original comics, so I'm not sure if all the wrongs are made by origin or by animation.

It goes back and forth in timeline very often, and some scene changes happen in unexpected timing. If used properly that kind of twists may bring an extra ... impression, but in this show they were very inhospitable and did not bring any positive impact.

To illustrate personality of characters it uses a lot of naughty talks, such as Kurou's family-name jokes and Sasama's breast milk jokes. And for fan service it contains many sexual contents, but none of them are in a good way. I don't know if someone likes them, but not for me.

Hard to find a character that audiences can sympathize with, especially Saruta who slaughtered hundreds of civilians. Perhaps the author just wants to show how evil UN is.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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