[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I guess part of it is that for me usually a suit has to match up with the characters or be saying something about them or having something else interesting about it, and it leads me to the question of why is this guy a ninja??? To start it feels a little weird that the organisation of knights - where everyone else so far is just a different type of knight - would just have a ninja as one of them, but I could get around that if it matched up with Kenzan's character which it doesn't? He's the literal opposite of a ninja??? He's all about pure strength rather than speed or agility, he doesn't care for stealth or tactics or anything like that, and spoilers but learning to be a ninja or whatever isn't gonna be part of his character growth... I dunno, it's just weird. It feels like either the Ninja Rider toys got randomly applied to this character or vice versa. I'm not gonna go on about it too much because, sure, whatever; but it has always felt very weird and incongruent to me

I think after Naruto, ninja became more associated with noisy teenagers who want to prove their coolness to the whole world than with invisible shadow warriors. Also (but this is speculation, so not 100% guaranteed) I read somewhere that the Japanese don't really like the ninja/shinobi theme very much, and only exploit it because of its popularity in the rest of the world.