I wonder what this guy’s deal is?

  • zabadoh@ani.socialOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    We get some ninja lore: Our 3 most powerful ninjas: Higan, Mari, and Zai are each taught a different exclusive ninja technique, that no other ninja is ever taught.

    So that’s part of why the ninja clan is chasing after Higan, so that they can extract that technique out of him, presumably to teach it to the next guy.

    I guess that’s the end of that exclusive ninja art that Mari was taught.

    You’d think that capturing both Mari and Higan alive would be a bigger priority…

    And if Mari was such a great ninja, how was she killed so easily, by some ninja who was supposedly lower ranked than her?

    A better episode than other recent ones, but there are still some problems with the writing.

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I thought the episode showed Mari is hesitant when it comes killing children ( mother and child she hesitated so she isn’t completely cut off from her empathy), the most likely thing that happened is like how they stabbed Higan, they probably grabbed the child, while the mother was killing ninja and either killed the child or threw the child at her and in the moment she tried to protect, they took advantage?

      Zai is specifically instructed not to engage Higan, so there must be some reason that will be explored later I am sure, as they are still willing to try kill him.

      Found it interesting how their is tension between the Ninja and Auzu, so there is probably something cooking there too

      Only thing I can think about the arts is that it is tied to a ninja until death and until they are dead it cannot be used,I don’t know maybe it will be explained. I mean the ninja boss was there at Higan and Co’s Ninja ceremony.

      It isn’t perfect but it does carry enough weight until the next action set which I am satisfied with

      • zabadoh@ani.socialOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        But Mari wasn’t taken out by Zai.

        She, and Higan, were taken out by that grey haired ponytailed ninja with hordes of minions.

        The way I see it, head ninja not assigning Zai to go after Higan right off the bat is just lazy writing to save their fight for the final 1 or 2 episodes.

        • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          There might have been an misunderstanding, the ninja squad that attack Higan’s home show how with the first ninja they killed how they take advantage of openings, and how pony tail guy likes to come in after the “fodder” ninja weaken the target. That squad has been killing ninjas in that area from the news reports.

          Back to Mari, she was probably disabled in a moment of weakness between killing ninja and trying to protect her child, with that the pony tail ninja( probably killed the child and threw him at Mari) waited for higan and stabbed Mari in front of him to make an opening.

          I mean it did work as the “fodder” ninja was able to sneak up and stab Higan

          The leader ninja forbade Zai from fighting with his old team( which Zai considered at one time family) and seems something like a retainer or right hand man( who knows the reason, besides the trope of friend turn rival showdown).

          Zai seems to be blind and I am curious how that happened between present day and that betrayal. It all depends how they flesh it out, I mean sure it is tropey, but it doesn’t have to have the best writing as the action scenes do a lot of the heavy lifting for the show.

          Also the Auzu( who the head is obsessed with data collection - possible ninja AI learning ) acting independent and in an alliance with Ninja seems to show some friction.

          There is an interesting thing I noticed with episode 5, but that is reserved for that topic I am sure.

          It might be rough on the technical details but, for me, it is “logically consistent” enough that I am interested where and how the story will unfold