More foreheads huh?
Ok so In the heart of kunoichi tsbaki was a pretty good show, it was very inconsistent in the middle parts, but overall, a good and enjoyable show.
So, let’s start with the story; we focus on the dog squad, led by tsubaki (mc), and her curiosity on boys. Assuming you read the synopsis, I don’t need to explain how the girls in the village feel about boys. So yeah, we were shown that Tsubaki wants to know more about boy. However, during the middle section in the show, the main focus is shifted to everyday life with the different squads, and tsubaki’s squad mixed in the episode. You can see how the focus changes, and I think that’s where the show dropped in quality. We were led to believe that this show would focus on tsubaki finding out new things about boys, though we are given more stuff on boys throughout the show, it really wasn’t the main focus, the main focus of the show was to show the life of the girls living in the akane clan.
Now that the focus was established, the story is a 7 for me. I feel like this could be classified as slice of life, and I’ll consider it as one, since, like I said main focus of life of the girls. As a slice of life, I feel like this show doesn't Deliver as much as it should have, most of the characters are pretty one dimensional and have a gimmick and that’s all they have. tbh there’s like 20 of them and we’re only given 13 eps, but still, other characters were given depth, so why couldn’t the rest get it? Anyway, that’s all I’ll have to say, since it’s a slice of life, if you want to watch it go.
The characters. Since the story’s mc is tsubaki, we mostly follow the dog squad. All the characters in the dog squad are well developed, and their relationships with each other grow as the show goes on. I really don’t want to go in depth on all the characters, so I’ll just say, the characters that are introduced in the first 4 episodes are the only ones that get good character development. However, each character in each squad does get to shine per episode, so you could say that all are developed and have character.
The other elements like art and sound are pretty good, nothing too outstanding, but gets the job done. The character designs are ninja-like, I guess... and the music is uses traditional Japanese instruments, so that’s cool. Also the fact that the ed in each episode is relative to each squad, and i think it’s an activity log or something, but anyway, that was nice. As for my complaints, not much other that what I said at the start. This show doesn’t shine, but it doesn’t really lack anything, so I give it an 8.
Anyway, this show was a breather for me this season, with all the other animes out there, this one felt relaxing. So, if you want a chill anime, look no further, because this anime delivers. Good anime.