Anime 50338 Kunoichi Tsubaki No Mune No Uchi

Out of 100 Nobles watching…
87 were impressed!
10 found some characters and pacing grating
3 can sympathize with non-believers

Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi seemed to hilariously come and go mostly unnoticed in this age of western media starting Twitter campaigns against shows like Nagatoro or Uzaki-chan of all things. The show is a pretty cut and dry coming of age story about a young girl hitting puberty in a much tamer manner than something like Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo (O Maidens in their Savage Season). The show is excellently made, has a lot of variety and heart, and without any knowledge of the source manga ... I found it to really have a voice of its own that by the end of season delivered a nice slice-of-life character arc for our heroine. I will finish initial thoughts with a declaration, this is an anime for anime fans. If watching a show about a gang of loli’s attempting to learn about boys while the show displays their feet, armpits, and chests makes you feel unusually uncomfortable than don’t watch the show and stfu about it. All that established the show was not nearly as degenerate as I was worried it would be and was mostly just comfy.

The best way phrase I could come up with to describe the show is “light-hearted Naruto”. I don’t really know how much of a cultural revolution Naruto started with the mythos of what a “ninja” is, but the setting of the show is about a village of young ninja girls training to become fully fledged kunoichi. Complete with ninja tools and jutsu techniques checking all the boxes including flame breath, shadow binding, transformation, and cloning.

There’s something very nostalgic to me about the musical score. A lot of the typical slice-of-life slide flute and piano shows up in the score, but a lot of establishing shots and scenes are set to the tunes of Sanshin and other traditional instruments that really took me back to the anime and games of my youth. The OP was very well made, fun, and looked great. Every single ED was styled based on and vocalized by different cast members encouraging the viewer to stay and watch each credits sequence to make sure they don’t miss out on the epilogue found every episode.

Plot was simple and refreshing after having just watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. It really is just a story about the daily lives of young girls in school with a ninja flair. The exact same story could essentially be told in a modern-day boarding school. Every episode was broken into two segments with one usually focusing on a specific set of characters. This made each 24-minute episode feel very full, utilizing every second of runtime. Tsubaki’s obsession with learning about men didn’t overtake the plot of every episode and the conclusion to her arc and coming to terms with getting older by the end of the show was a nice clean way to end this course in a way that I really don’t feel an urge to check out the manga until it is confirmed finished serialization.

Final notes and reiteration. Show was cute girls doing very cute things. The aesthetic was fun with some really great fight and chase animation with some honestly pretty well used CG. CloverWorks put in the work to give this project the love it deserved.

It was a good job, the colors of the characters were cute and you liked them, but in my opinion, the story is not good at all, if it has a next season and also has a hidden love, it is not good, it was more like (Yuri's village), the story part is not good My personal opinion was that this is a matter of taste, but the quality of the work was really good

One positive thing is that there are many characters and they have variety. I liked it, but there was no man in the story, it was all hidden☹️

And the fact ... that he didn't have a good fight at all, the story of the last episode with an unknown creature, in this uncle's opinion, is one of the negative points


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I thought this show would be a...comedy of some sort. No, just generic CGDCT. Does this show stand out from the other CGDCT shows? absolutely not. Too many characters are introduced, with the main character having a elementary level obsession with men and romance.

Also, the foreheads. Anime girls in CGDCT shows already have crazy weird proportions, but this show takes it a step further. All of these girls look like they have brain tumors compared to regular looking anime girls (which again, already have crazy proportions)

Then there's the ninja plot setting. Honestly, the appeal of CGDCT is probably the fact that it's "healing," ... or it's kind of funny with a supernatural twist, like Zombieland Saga, or maybe more of a fantasy setting like Urara Meirochou. This show just kind of slaps on a ninja setting and calls it a day. Of course, since it is a slice of life sort of show, there's going to be no real fighting, and most of the show is just girls fooling around with their ninja techniques. What was the purpose of doing that? It just takes away from the slice of life aspect. Again, another deviation is the MC's obsession with men. Most shows make so that the characters don't have any romantic interests...hence the genre name: Cute girls doing cute things.

I don't even like the genre, but this show surely lands in the more bottom rungs of it, all things consdiered.