[Fish Sandwich]

Ninnin Rewatch! 11 + 12

Episode 11 mostly serves to establish where Starninger fits into the group dynamic, but it doesn't feel like the rest of the show grinds to a halt to do it. I love the newly updated narration in the opening, which explicitly doesn't treat Kinji as part of the group, reflecting his role early on. Love the culture clash going on at the start with Kinji cooking for everyone ("1500 calories is a bit much for breakfast") and arguing the pronunciation of the word "easy" with Yakumo. Glass houses, Kinji, glass houses.

Episode 12 is totally rad. It has a great feeling of being the end of a "chapter", and really shows how much the Ninningers have grown even just 12 episodes in, and naturally it does this with some great action throughout. This is the first notable instance of Takaharu doing his whole accidentally really insightful bit too, first to Kinji and then again to Gabi Raizou in the climax.

Oh and it shows up in both of these episodes so I figure I'll mention it in its own paragraph: Yoshitaka totally wrote a trashy best-selling autobiography! In English! Remember how I said way back that Ninninger has amazing world-building? I can't get over this, it's called I am the LAST NINJA (and apparently it's the NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR) and the pages are filled with completely comprehensible if clunky English. That's just so awesome! Little stuff like this is what makes me love Ninninger.

EDIT: But you don't have to take my word for it!