Contrary to popular belief, Ninja Resurrection, is NOT
a follow up to Ninja Scroll. This anime is a whole new Jubei with an entirely
new plot for the characters to work in. Don't believe those websites that try
to put this as a follow up to Ninja Scroll.
The
plot of Ninja Resurrection revolves around old heroes coming back to life
as demons. A whole idea of a child of God is also present within this. The idea
of the story was OK. Most of the events occurring were somewhat explained or had
a reason for it. However, there was a problem with the characters. They had nearly
no depth to them. The lack of poor development in the character department really
hurt the film. Sadly, I felt worse for characters that had no lines in the story
and were just shown. Even the enemy you can feel worse for! The main characters,
aside from the enemy, have no development and don't pull you in at all. The ending
also leaves a lot of things up in the air. Perhaps they did such a thing so you
would want to see more but there is no more to be seen! The time when you can
at least start to appreciate this for the action you're nearly through the entire
thing. Concept was good, execution was all right, but the development wasn't up
to par. The atmosphere was also built well during the later parts of the episode.
The dramatic changes in scenery and atmosphere, however, feels out of place or
it comes too soon.
The animation is strange in that
it goes from stunningly excellent and at times to unbearably horrible. The fighting
scenes are extremely detailed as are the main characters. The scenes are completely
clean and really let you get right in there with them. However, when outside of
battles, such as showing hordes of people, the animation just plummets. They show
multiple hulks of bodies that are completely faceless. Emotion isn't really shown
in characters except for the enemy and some of the female characters.
The
music is really only existent during battle sequences. This works out well as
the atmosphere is supposed to be a dark moody type of tone while the battle sequence
music keeps the action pumping. So the music is a good work for this series.
Ninja
Resurrection isn't exactly for the faint of heart or those looking for a high
quality story. This is more for those looking only for action. If you want action
and a story look up Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen or the Rurouni Kenshin
TV series.
