Ninja Kamui

The series started of with one of the best pilot episodes of the last decade. The hand to hand combat and the animation were just breath taking. In the begining, the show promised a classic john wick style revenge story but with a cool ninja twist. But things took turn to being rather boring and bland as the cool ninjas were replaced by cgi mech soldiers. I love mech. Soldiers , but not more than ninjas. The writing of the show turned out to be pretty juvenile in the later half of the show. The abrupt cuts in the scenes ruined it further. This is definitely NOT the worst show of the season, but for a show that started of as promising as this , to fell off as it did is pretty sad. It became just another mediocre show.

Also fleshing out the dead character while the main character remains totally unexplored is just bad writing.

One of the saving grace for me was Kenjiro tsuda, who voiced Higan. I am a big fan of him and his voice.