You know, if you’re going to send the next head of the clan to ninja school, maybe it would be sensible to at least give him a brief overview of the basics and what to expect so he doesn’t appear like a clown in front of everyone else including members of the rival clan who literally want him dead?

That's the issue I've had with Mom.

She's not much better than her son. I can understand not telling Ittoki if he were 8, but the guy's like 15. You didn't think you'd reach a moment where you HAVE to spill the beans, or maybe teach him more than just gymnastics and parkour to avoid Truck-kun?

If anything, the reason Ittoki is the way he is because of her, and makes her look bad.

Or she could've at least had him do martial arts since he was 3 or something more practical for self-defense lol

But he does gymnasticsss dailyyy!

Based on the parkour he exhibited earlier, I assumed he did. Either he's holding back or completely inept

He's holding back I thought he was just a bad at it and that old man saw something to ittoki

Even if he did learn it, if he doesn't even put it to use you know its practically useless. Its like learning math equations but not using it in your everyday life.

Mc stated part of his daily practices is Judo in ep 1.

yeah though i dont know why he being like that... its not appetizing to watch.. but i think its okayish

Yeah but she was trying to keep it a secret but still she could've said something to ittoki before going to this school a little advice

Truck-kun would have treated him better. At least he would have gotten the otherworld starter pack!

*status board, skill point and unique skills included*
*without forgetting the Cute elf companion included*

cute elf slave....?

And if rng is on your side you get a goddess companion.

IKR? The dude never knew that Ninja exists until just days earlier and then they pushed him to the school that its sole purpose is educating all things Ninja without giving him any proper background info whatsoever. At least they should give him a brief prep talk.

Things would've turned out a whole lot different if he was provided with at least just the basics lol...

Looks like we can see some satisfying failed revenge stuff from Koga by the end of the season...

they seem more interested in getting him the fk out so that they dont get attacked lol

On the bright side, he'll have a bevy of Hinatas' and Sakuras' and Inos' to propagate a new generation with. Dunno why the smaller clans don't unify that way anyways.Pretty sure his current bodyguard is jelly though.

But he still manage to survive using his good person personality he even gave the stolen manju of kirei

& that's exactly why this is getting dropped. Just badly written. They probably did it like this so they can explain everything to the viewers as they're telling the MC but he's completely oblivious, but I know in the end he's going to end up being "the greatest ninja ever" - & they're not even ninja, they just have powered suits lmao - shows a joke.

& while I'm ranting - why are they taking people's manju?! They were literally at the base of the tower they could've just climbed up and got their own - like wtf. & how'd he know where he put the manju he stole to steal it back smh...yea I'm done

There's a way to show someone already knows something while teaching it to viewer — relevant short flashbacks.

I don't mind power suits, they're probably just not as advanced as in Batman Beyond nor "G.I. Joe: Sigma 6".

G.I. Joe DAAAAAAAAMN U OG OG, i can smell your age and i i love it , haven't seen a gi joe reference in a couple years

Man dont just smell people's age XD but I get you tho.

I dont mind the suits either, but when we add ninjas to the mix, they begin to stray from each other. They already "real" ninjutsu doesn't work, so basically anyone who puts on that suit can be a ninja.

By "real" ninjutsu, I guess you mean fictional supernatural ninjutsu, but the power suits seem to just be for defense, camouflage & scaling so far; so you'd need real-life Ninjutsu/Ninpou/Shinobi-jutsu as a martial art to actually learn to fight.

Eg. I can be even more flippant than your comment by saying "anyone can be a shinobi if they learn real-life shinobi-jutsu". Yes it's hypothetically true but it's an oversimplification.

yea the power suits don't make any sense, like somehow they are singlehandedly the most advanced piece of technology that exists and it's used by ninjas? not to mention that this is present day japan yet they have sci fi suits for some reason

Uhm not being a pain or anything but this is an anime and i've seen crazier things than this and it's SUPPOSED to be crazy and making sense of it is like BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.

Not really telling you how to think when watching something coz thats just sus but i'll share my thought process. When i watch something i'm empty and don't think of anything and i take in that media how it's presented and not how it should be if i we're to tell the story and just immerse myself in it buck naked. I rarely hate any media for this reason coz yeah making sense of fiction is like BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.

the powersuits would be salvagable if a contrived story about how they are tech from some ancient society and they cant reproduce them or something... but still would be clumsy at best.

Not necessarily.
There's plenty more-advanced tech that isn't mainstream (usually due to the illusion of expensive R&D costs despite the fact that corporations involved in R&D tend to get government subsidies [basically welfare] &/or acquire government R&D for cheap — i.e. despite R&D being funded upfront, traditional economics says they act like R&D put them in debt & make newer products expensive).
& ironically, some of these ninja clans are acting like corporations.

that's not slightly more advanced tech though, that is tech many people have tried to make, but failed for lack of power source and bulk, its simply well beyond us right now.

Dude give it a chance

the 3 ep rule exist for a reason...so you don't end up watching a whole show realizing you wasted your time

The idea is to make a wuss into a hero. Cliche. I doubt there'll be any proper plot or good action. As the 3rd ep, we can safely judge this series. Good thing GK is around. Hinna hinna.

It will be worth it, because this "wuss" has extremely good gymnastic skills. It will be useful in the future, unless... the author completely forgotten about it...

you think this show is gonna be worth it because he has gymnastic skills.... man your expectations are at an all time low

That's kind of quick to jump to the conclusion.
I didn't think this show will be worth it because of his gymnastic skills, though. Just stating a fact that it could be useful for character physical combat development.

it's worthless cuz he has the mindset of a wuss..he shouldnt even care about provoking the koga shitheads anymore cuz they're already aiming to kill him...so he should just do whatever he wants....he dont even dare to buy fking food he likes....what a wuss! did he think those koga ninjas will forget about killing him if he be nice to them or what? why are they even bother to have him becoming the next chief to begin with? his uncle should take the spot instead.....i guess it's expected from the clan who made the wife of their chief into the chief despite she's not even a ninja....they are too dumb and lacking common sense!

Bruh how are going to blame him for being a wuss if he only found out about all this shit a couple of days ago.

Re if mum really isn't a ninja herself, I really hate these shows where some noob is heavily involved with a group that practises a discipline but noob arbitrarily never learns said discipline, especially martial arts.

I wouldn't've minded if he used his fear to spring into action like Izuku Midoriya (HeroAca) & Bell Cranel (DanMachi).

judging from the cliche we can already tell...that MC is a goody two shoes he's gonna be best friend with the Koga brats at the end...god I dunno why but hate this...I hope we at least get to see Koga gets a heavy beatdown but MC have that vibes he's gonna use the power of of nakama and put everything behind them & lets just be friend...blegh

Japanese media seem to be obsessed with friendship due to how rigid Japanese society is.
Ironically, this same rigid society caused the shut-in & herbivore epidemics.

When my kid learns to drive, I'm going to have him drive out to the middle of nowhere, where I'll get out and slash a tire. I'll use the only cellphone to call an Uber for myself. If my kid wants to come home, he'll have to learn how to swap in the spare tire.

A major obstacle with changing tyres is loosening nuts, the trick is to use your leg to loosen before jacking up.

I think thorough go-kart experience since childhood on an internal track with optional obstacles is a good way to have driving experience long before 16.
Asian prodigies are created due to exploiting 0 to 5 being best learning years.

Right?! atleast teach him some basic stuff all about the ninja tech and skill before throwing him into a school of ninja elite, and expect him to be a prodigy to know everything with just one touch... What a bad parenting by his mom and the clan.

Ninja verson of Hogwarts. LOL

Yeah, you'd also think that Daughter Of Kakashi Hatake would help the poor boy out, but she was just like "Your on your own pal." At least the cute nerd Ryoko came in clutch.

This part of the story really makes zero damn sense.

It's like putting a gun in a soldiers hand, and telling them to go fight a war on their first day in the military.

For real! It's bothering me so much. They tell him literally nothing and he has to get by without knowing anything about a world he just got forcefully pulled into. If he wasn't lucky enough to make two actual friends, he'd be fucked and it's because the people around him don't tell him shit.

"you already have the basic skills be a ninja" yet he doesn't know anything about ninjutsu, ninja tools, or Ninja history I guess they're just talking about physique although he did handle himself very well in that hide and seek game

Ittoki is basically Jaune Arc from RWBY...