➤ Scenario: Episode 1 spoil

➥ So why did viewers enjoy the first few episodes of this anime so much ?

➤ Animation: First and foremost, the animation studio “E&H Production”'s ability to create exquisite 2D body-to-body combat choreography while remaining fast-paced and extremely fluid to the eye.

Next, let's talk about the characters, who are on the whole rather simple, with no real development beyond the ordinary. We get to know most of the anime's cast pretty quickly, including some characters who only get a few lines of dialogue before being relegated to the background, as the anime starts rushing fights and ending them in 5 or even 10 minutes. And I'm talking here about fights against people designated as important opponents.Apart from that, we'll have a few endearing characters, but nothing that will really upset the viewer if you're an anime regular.

➥ Why has “Ninja Kamui” become so bad ?

_First of all, as I explained above, it's classic veangence, with a story that's extremely simple to understand. Extremely predictable events, and an abundance of useless characters, to make us believe that Higan has “adversaries”.
Even the characters who do get screen time are sorely lacking in depth, their characters far too undeveloped, preventing us from becoming attached to them._

The main antagonists are deadly boring! Between a 20-year-old kid who has a big head, but ultimately people don't respect, and an old wreck with a character design that says "I'm bad" which serves no purpose throughout the series.

Finally, the 2D hand-to-hand animation that was the great strength of the anime up to now, has been replaced by CGI for the armored battles, which have lost all the fluidity and magnificent intensity of the battles at the start of the season. I'm not criticizing 3D, I just see a lot of studios trying to save money, and not producing quality! It wasn't horrible either, just cruelly inferior to the anime's 2D (3D can be excellent animation if used well, just as 2D can be ugly, but more acceptable today due to its popularity)..

I have to admit that I enjoyed following the series to the end, even if the finale is full of clichés about feelings, the kind of thing that works without breaking too much ground to innovate xD.

➥ To sum up this series, I'll use one word: SIMPLE.

Don't expect anything, just enjoy the exelent body-to-body choreography at the beginning of the season, which has nothing to envy to other popular animes.

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This review has been translated from French to English, sorry if some words are weird or don't fit. Thanks for reading ^^