So earlier on in the season I specifically said that I hoped Shinobi no Ittoki would get away from the school setting and themes. Boy oh boy have we ever done that.
As far as negatives go, the first portions of the episode left me a bit meh, if I’m being honest. The ninja boardroom meetings and ninja security council sessions are still boardroom meetings and security council sessions – no matter how often you use ninja as an adjective. We get a bit of intrigue at the very least with the Koga boss offing one of his lieutenants for not showing enough backbone (though it seems like a bad call on my part since he uh, gave good advice and the boss admits it too?). But these are mostly meetings between characters we still don’t know all that well.
I think the show could really benefit from putting more characters we care about into these scenes. Or at least having them address…
