danth wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:58 am
I'm guessing it's either just not very good, or it's super creepy in terms of how the young female characters are treated and nobody wants to import it.
While I'm not necessarily convinced that poor and/or creepy treatment of young female characters has necessarily stopped anime of that ilk from being brought over to the West, I did take a look at the first episode out of curiosity to see if that could have even been a concern. It could have just been another one of many shows from back then that probably never got noticed or got attention from licensors.
Towards the end there's a ninja dual between the main character Nikumaru (lit. round meat) and his teacher Norio Wakamoto. uses a ninja technique called kamikaze for the explicit purpose of summoning a whirlwind to lift up the skirts of his female classmates, which turns out to be his teacher's weakness... And then it is acknowledged explicitly that the teacher is a lolicon. Not a great look if we're going by a one-episode test. That being said the rest of it was mildly amusing anime school comedic fare. The main character is somewhat of a lite version of Urusei Yatsura's Ataru as far as chasing after girls; more of a goofball and not so much a huge jerk.
My favorite part of it was this brief segment about how ninja in the modern day are basically spies for various countries, narrated over a car chase sequence. I was cracking up at how unamused the "beautiful lady" driver is despite being involved in this car chase gunfight.
Also as an aside I just noticed that apparently Joe Hisaishi did the music for this.
(The teacher's name is actually Ogata, played by Norio Wakamoto)
