How would you rank episode 11 of
Ninja Kamui? Neighborhood rating: 3.7
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We’re lastly getting in the home stretch for this program, and not a minute prematurely offered how severely the last number of episodes handled to fumble things. Regretfully, today’s occasions have basically continued that pattern, and being this near to completion just makes that more discouraging. While this episode has lots of moving parts, none link the method they require to, and the outcomes feel quite unpleasant.
We’ve got the extension of the battle in between Higan and Zai which is the finest part of the episode. It looks cool and utilizes a great deal of great electronic camera work to assist make the entire thing feel cinematic. Much like any huge 1v1 battle in an anime, the battle can just truly be as great as the psychological stakes. While Zai definitely has them in between sensation like his good friends betrayed him and getting half his face burned due to the fact that of it, I can’t state the very same for Higan. Sure, he provides a huge Naruto speech about how he never ever stopped appreciating Zai and wishes to assist him break devoid of the company however he’s likewise never ever truly pointed out the guy up till this battle, so even with all his current character advancement, the minute fails. Particularly because the battle ends unceremoniously as the episode has other things to get to.
That brings us to the other significant dispute of the episode, which is Joseph and Yamaji attempting to out-gambit each other as Joseph has actually captured on that the ninja aren’t especially devoted to him. Unsurprisingly, his efforts to get the dive on them stop working quite marvelously, triggering him to run for the hills up until he’s conserved by his bodyguard, Dilly who’s chosen to prioritize her objective of safeguarding him over Yamaji’s orders. It’s a cool concept in principle, however similar to the battle in between Higan and Zai it does not work in addition to meant given that they have not had adequate scenes together to make this feel warranted. I was rooting for her to go through with it when it appeared like she was choking him to death in an act of betrayal. It looks like Joseph gets to make it through another day, which is truthfully the greatest disappointment of the whole episode given that whatever looked like it was setting him up to pass away in an extremely humorous style (man even made the timeless error of running to an elevator to leave so he was virtually pleading for it). I can just hope that his ultimate death in the ending is amusing enough to offset this overall misfire.
Rounding things out, we have Mike’s adventures with the hacker guy as they continue their efforts to enter Emma’s files and expose all of Auza’s tricks. While they appear to have actually struck a dead end without having Emma’s biometric signature, Mike remembers that she touched that drawing from his dead child that he keeps around,