I generally have a low bar to pass in terms of anime pleasing me. I can tolerate a lot of things that many people can not and find most things enjoyable, but I just could not get with the MC of this series at all. From the very first episode, I damn near wanted to throw my shoe at the screen. The titular Ittoki is a whiny, annoying and entitled brat who makes you want to root for the bad guys just by virtue of how dumb he is. His mom and the other side characters were the best parts of the show and that’s not saying much at all considering how bland they were.
The story itself is simple enough. Very predictable up until about episode 9 or so when a major plot twist tried to shake things up, but by that point I was so over the show I didn’t really care what happened to the characters. I think if Troyca had made the MC go from the whiny brat to capable quicker it would have helped the story tremendously. Instead, what we ended up with is one of the more mediocre shows in recent memory.
The Animation is OK at best. For a show about Ninjas, there was surpassingly little good ninja action scenes. If anything, the show leans much heavier into the political aspects of the Ninja world, which would be ok if you had interesting characters, but as these were not, it did not land very well with me.
Overall, I would say Shinobi no Ittoki is definitely a show you can pass on. It doesn’t do much of anything correctly other than introduce a couple of waifus and fail to properly flesh them out. There’s better shows out there from a stacked Fall 2022.
Shinobi no Ittoki gets 5 Ninja cores out of 10.
