lots of attention to anatomy and blood and shadow. Image search up some screen caps, it's dark and brooding, heavy and hard and thick. it's very digestible and very predictable and yet just so damn good at what it does that somehow despite the smarter half of your brain telling you "it's just too simple" the other half enjoys the candy-like-goodness it provides for the eyes for an hour and a half.Īnimation - It's a 1993 feature presentation, movie quality. In my opinion it suffers from what I call the "Linkin Park" syndrome. It's Hot-Topic-like popularity in the anime world will easily 'cause many of the elite to dismiss it quickly for all it lacks. Now first off, Ninja Scroll is not for everyone. Hey AniDB, I'd like to throw in my two cents on Ninja Scroll, my personal inaugural anime experience that hooked me years ago so much that well. As the name implies, seinen works are marketed primarily to an audience of young men the age range commonly understood to be the target of such works goes roughly from 17 to somewhere in the 40s., violence Violence is the use of physical force against oneself or another entity, compelling action against one`s will on pain of being hurt. NO FRONTAL NUDITY (visible genitals) = 1.5 STARS OR LESS.Įspecially gratuitous fanservice shows tend to show their characters frequently without any clothes, though often hiding genitals through the means of additions like steam., samurai no description set, seinen Seinen, literally "young man", is one of the main demographic classifications applied to manga, and, by extension, to anime, especially manga-based ones.
The ninja, using covert methods of waging war, were contrasted with the samurai, who had strict rules about honor and combat., nudity Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing and exposing the bare skin or intimate parts. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations. Generally if an original work (原作) credit is given, it will be to the studio, or director, or other members of the production team., ninja A ninja was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. Often their plots involve the intrusion of an evil force, event or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, on the mundane world and the consequences thereof., martial arts Various sports or skills, mainly of Japanese origin, that originated as forms of self-defense or attack, such as judo, karate, and kendo., new Not based on anything, the story is a new work, usually made up by the people involved in creating the anime. It often contains a lot of shooting, explosions and fighting., horror The horror cinematic genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, or horror. Action Action anime usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force.