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Ninnin Rewatch! 27 + 28

The appearance of the last Western Youkai reopens old wounds for Starninger in episode 27, bringing the question of whether or not he's fit to be a ninja back up. The great part here is that both sides of the argument have valid points. Yoshitaka is actually pretty dead on in his unflattering assessment of Kinji, but the Ninningers are just as correct in having faith in him. This is as much a turning point for Yoshitaka as it is for Kinji, too, with some choice words from Takaharu (sometimes that loud mouth of his makes a good point) getting him to seriously acknowledge that he's got his own issues. This is another really good episode. I don't know if you could just watch it by itself and be impressed but as part of the larger story of the show it's awesome.

In episode 28 the Ninningers embark on their greatest adventure yet: getting a little kid his lunch for school! After last week's much heavier events this is an extremely comedic episode, even by the show's own standards. It works. Of course there's a lot more to it than that synopsis suggests though.