What is this?
Tsubaki Kunoichi is the best student in her kunoichi school. She lives in a village of women with the rule that they cannot have contact with men. However, she has a curiosity about men that she cannot reveal.
In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki is based on Sōichirō Yamamoto‘s manga and streams on Crunchyroll on Saturdays.
How was the first episode?
Caitlin Moore
Rating:
Boy, Sōichirō Yamamoto‘s artstyle is not working here. The author of Teasing Master Takagi-san‘s signature style of cute characters with big noggins and fiveheads may work for realistic slice-of-life romantic comedies, but combined with The Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki’s bare-midriff costume designs, it kind of gives things a “sexy baby” vibe. When you add that to the core concept of a teenage girl who’s starting to develop an obsession with men…