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If the first episode was a big action showcase meant to hype us up for what the rest of the show has to offer, this episode was more of a cooldown. Wow, how slow can a show like this be, since the episode opens with a guy being brutally tortured and ends with a fight between our main character and a ninja disguised as him Uber Eats delivery guy, but otherwise things are pretty light-hearted. Instead, it dials things back in favor of setting up the story a bit more and begins to answer some of the mysteries in the premiere.
For one thing, it turns out that the name “Joe Logan” is actually a very silly alias, and our vengeful protagonist is a ninja named Higan. We also know that ninjas once worked secretly to maintain peace in Japan but later expanded their reach to the rest of the world, including revealing their secrets to outsiders and are willing to kill anyone within their ranks if they don’t want to. to get with the program. Since there have been reports of mass murders committed by them, it seems pretty safe to say that Higan may be among those unwilling to go along with their policy changes. However, the exact details of why the assassins hunted him and his family are still not completely clear.
However, other than that speculation, the rest of the episode’s content is quite light. After successfully capturing one of his pursuers and turning him into a pincushion (probably on purpose to look cool, but I personally don’t like torture scenes), Higan decides to contact two FBI agents named Mike and Emma who are investigating his family’s murder case exchange information. After Mike agreed to meet Higan and briefly attempted to capture him, the two were interrupted by the aforementioned Uber Eats ninja, which was the biggest highlight of the episode. In addition to the over-the-top physical fighting we saw in the first episode, we also get to see the two of them unleash some good old-fashioned ninjutsu and it makes for quite the spectacle.
While most of this episode didn’t have as much effect on me as the first episode, it still had some good points here and there. For one thing, I got a pretty good kick out of Higan and Mike’s attempt to set up a meeting in which Higan broke the burner phone he was calling from after Mike gave him a hard time and then immediately called back on the second burner phone, which caused me to leave. Mike begged him not to hang up again. I also enjoyed how Mike’s dramatic attempts to capture Higan during their meeting were repeatedly interrupted by random delivery men before the last one turned out to be a ninja. These scenes aren’t funny to the point of being funny, but at least they give me hope that Sunghoo Park and his team have enough self-awareness to add a little lightness in the midst of all the movie clichés. revenge, and that probably should happen. enough to keep this show from taking itself too seriously, which is my biggest fear right now. For now, though, I’m having fun and for something as simple as this, that’s all I can ask for
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Even though this scene was a bit random, I really enjoyed the part where Higan beats up a pair of small town cops in an extremely cartoonish fashion after they make the stupid mistake of trying to harass him while he’s at the bar bar. bar.
→ The episode ends with the reveal that the ninjas are being supported by a large corporation called Auza, which appears to be functionally non-Amazon as we see them doing things like food delivery and manufacturing Unmanned aircraft. While I can’t say I expect this kind of show to make any serious critiques of corporate capitalism, it does give it something else to work with outside of it all. revenge movie stuff, so hopefully that goes somewhere
I am in awe of this show having an opening song by Coldrain, who blessed us with a great opening to Rainbow and a memorable opening to King’s Game The Animation, with this song being classified as followed by the catchiest song titled “Vengeance” this show could possibly get.
Ninja Kamui airs on Adult Swim and streams on Maximum.