The Legend of the Ninja Hero! (902)

[DS0308]

Very much set-up for the next episode but still a reasonable episode on it's own. Ippei and Nihei sounded alright but I do definitely prefer Ippei's Japanese voice, and I'm not sold on Greninja's voice anymore. :/

Really looking forward to see how the dub handles next week.

 

[Water_Dragon trainer]

This was an ok episode. Nothing too exciting.

 

[Bguy7]

Eh, as much as I love nunjas, that was a somewhat boring episode, but as it was set up for a two-parter I'm willing to forgive it, assuming next week's episode is good.

One random thought though. Bonnie, before going to a ninja village, decides to play dress up as a ninja. It may be fun and games for her, but the way of the shinobi is this village's culture and way of life. It seems offensive to them for Bonnie to dress up like that. I know I'm overthinking this, but couldn't help but point it out.

 

[Almighty Zard]

does anyone know who was Shinobu's VA, swear it sounded familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.

Ippei and Sanpei's reasons for wanting Froakie as their partner given the backstory of the hero Greninja...kinda burns when you think about it...[spoil]knowing what goes down next week.[/spoil]

 

[Zoruagible]

Well I think this episode made it clear that Sanpei is NOT participating in the Pokemon League for those who thought he was. I never thought he was but some people sure did.

And this was the only time Bonnie's "gag" made me laugh, cause the girl was 100 years old. Only wish that could have happened to Brock. *sigh*

8/10

 

[Pikachu52]

Even though it's building to a climax in the next episode, it's still comes across as being uninteresting. I didn't feel the Ninja village was a particularly interesting setting. It felt somewhat cliche, especially since we'd already had something similar with the Village of Dragons in BW and Draconids in ORAS. Most of the episode is spent either Senpai showing them around the village or introducing them to other characters. The only excitement happens when the "Ninja Army" attacks for no reason, but even that seems so random as it's not clear why they would want to capture the village chief. All in all it's seems a somewhat lacklustre plot device with which to introduce the Ash-Greninja.

 

[Nyter]

Great great GREAT episode. The backstory, the suspense, the action, the playfulness... it has it all and builds Sanpei to be a "rival" character similar to Stephen from B&W series. This was a great beginning to a 2 part Pokémon event. Even Bonnie's cute "NINJA" moment was cute and not corny at all.

5 out of 5 stars. Nuff said

 

[Alexander18]

Yeah, this was a great episode. Love the plot and how it is going to carry on with the next episode. 9/10 for me.

 

[the1stpkmnfan]

Not a bad episode. The only major issue I had was the voice acting for the ninja characters. Not that they sounded bad, but their line delivery sounded shaky.

The Bonnie gag in this episode by far is the most unique and has a hilarious outcome, haha.

Its a good episode to lead to the 2nd part, that's about all I can say.

 

[Acdog]

Decent amount of action in this episode. The whole "Hi, I'm Ash, and this is my partner, Pikachu..." bit was particularly long this episode because of all the character introductions haha.

I give it a 7/10.

 

[Alloutℯ]

I'm glad Bonnie wore her ninja outfit again. Lol, at that old man flirting with the young chick. Is he trying to be Jiraiya? Nice to see another proposal gag. I've said this a million times, but I really like how they space this gag out.

 

[LilligantLewis]

One thing I like about this episode is that Bonnie of all people knows that the plural of ninja is ninja, something half this forum's users don't know lol

 

[lemoncatpower]

One thing I like about this episode is that Bonnie of all people knows that the plural of ninja is ninja, something half this forum's users don't know lol

this is a common argument that occurs, but Americanization of the word plays a big part. Just as Canada and the states have different spellings of some words that are both correct, there is different ways for the plural of Ninja. Depends on the culture and their way of speaking.

 

[Leonhart]

I liked seeing Sanpei again, as well as learning more about Ippei. The ninja subplot become somewhat insipid during the middle however, because it was all building up toward giving Satoshi's Gekkouga more of the limelight later on.

 

[FullmetalJackie]

I thought it was good. Course one thing that annoyed me was when Sanpei answered Bonnie's question about female ninja, he did not use the term kuno'ichi in the dub which happens to be what female ninja are called. Venusaur seemed completely random as a ninja mascot to me, but I did love seeing all of the various Pokemon they consider ninja-like though.

 

[Leonhart]

I thought it was good. Course one thing that annoyed me was when Sanpei answered Bonnie's question about female ninja, he did not use the term kuno'ichi in the dub which happens to be what female ninja are called.

I didn't think it was a big deal since simply using the term ninja was good enough. I didn't expect the dub to be thorough enough to mention kunoichi, regardless.