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Manga Talk: Under Ninja volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Dad needs to
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  talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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  And today today, I am finally getting a chance to dive into a
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  manga, that I have been waiting for what feels like over a year
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  since it was announced and that is under ninja volume 1.
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  Now, under ninja is published by demper And the story and art is
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  done by King go hanazawa. Now some of y'all may know that
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  name, even if you haven't read his other series, you have
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  probably at least seen it. If you are somebody who, you
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  know, goes on about, you know, manga shopping and stuff.
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  Whatever, you're probably seeing his previous work, which is, I
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  am a hero, which was a zombie apocalypse type of a story that
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  I know some people have mixed feelings on how certain things
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  happen in the story and how that story progressed, I don't know
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  for sure myself because I haven't finished reading it.
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  I have four of the ten Omnibus is for.
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  I am a hero. And I've only barely gotten into
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  partway through Omnibus to and you see how thick these are
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  because these are two in ones so bad.
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  But some I'm gonna get back to that because I did enjoy what
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  I've read so far but under ninja.
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  So This one basically follows this, this young guy who goes by
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  the name of Kuro kumagai Curry. And I just think the stick we
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  just Kuro. Now, this world this takes place
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  in Basically back in the Glory Days of like, during Wars and
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  stuff, ninjas were a big force to be reckoned with when it came
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  to dealing with problems and fighting Wars and stuff.
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  But due to certain governmental things, the official kind of
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  like ninja organizations and stuff for a dismantled.
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  But of course the ninjas still exist in secret in the modern
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  day Society. And this first volume kind of
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  does a good job of kind of like setting up for what I feel like
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  is going to be a action packed with little bit of Comedy makes
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  it because this this is a action-comedy but I feel like
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  this is going to be a very action-packed series just based
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  off of the bed that was set up in this first volume.
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  Because like I said, even though the ninja organizations and
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  stuff have been Officially dismantled, they're still there,
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  still believed to be about like 200,000 ninjas living in secret
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  in Japan right now. And some of them are just
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  sprawled throughout just no more day.
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  Society, there there your clerks, at the, at the grocery
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  store at their, your package delivers.
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  And then there are also some of them that are just kind of like
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  non active agents which is what our main Character.
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  Is he is somebody who is, he is a ninja but he's basically not
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  on active duty. He's just always on standby.
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  And so that is kind of work things in the story, kind of
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  start to slowly fall tour like is his Sensei or his senior kind
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  of gives him this package for his next mission which includes
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  basically it's kind of like this hoodie that you see him wearing
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  on the cover. And of course, he is a goofball,
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  like I said, he's 17, but, but but after reading this volume,
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  I'll just say the way this cover looks makes a lot more sense
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  with some story context. But something else that was kind
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  of set up in this is that there is Some Foreigner seems like
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  he's from Russia possibly who for we don't have all the full
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  details of but for some reason, he is trying to infiltrate the
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  ninja Society, but of course, with him being a foreigner, he
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  doesn't know Japanese very well. And of course, you know, you're
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  in a new country, you don't know all the different customs and
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  stuff. Whatever he goes about doing
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  things in a very odd way. Of what he misinterpreted, as
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  the way to get initiated into the to the world of ninjas.
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  Now, one other cool thing that I learned is that in this world at
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  least supposedly, maybe this is a good for whatever but it seems
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  like ninja has an actual, as an actual like an acronym, which
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  stands for a Nimble invisible, nocturnal Japanese agent, and I
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  love that. I love that.
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  That is Just like super cool. But, um, but yeah, so that's
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  basically just like where things kind of like start off with this
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  first volume. Like I said, it has some slow
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  moments, but it's kind of like I feel like the slow moments or
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  kind of like needed to kind of like Get Us introduced to the
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  world to these characters and stuff.
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  And the few action scenes that we do get they are pretty
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  gnarly. Like like we getting seeing
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  people getting sliced in half and stuff whatever and they are
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  very detailed as From his previous work and I am a hero
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  like that. There's Arthur.
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  Does some some very detailed art is the best way I can I can say
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  about this series and stuff. And so I'll show a couple more
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  kind of like spoiler-free panels and stuff.
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  But yeah, I just love how there is just kind of just like air of
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  mystery and stuff and our main character.
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  He is constantly kind of like Doing a little training
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  exercises and stuff around his apartment, that kind of like
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  steak prepared and ready and stuff for, for this myth, for
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  these missions, they eat. They might have coming up.
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  But, um, but yeah, but that's kind of built in a basic
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  nutshell. I'm like I said, this is a
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  series that I feel like if you haven't picked it up yet, maybe
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  wait until Volume 2 as out and then get both of the volumes
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  together. Because like I said, this is a
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  solid introductory, but it wasn't really until I towards
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  like the And they would kind of get like that.
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  Okay. All right.
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  Now things are really about to start cooking and get going and
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  stuff. So but but yeah, but yeah, this
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  is pretty dope. And yeah, this is the guy that's
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  trying to figure out where is all the ninjas and stuff and
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  stuff. So, because there, there, there
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  there was a pretty cool moment where he goes up to somebody.
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  And he's like, hey, so where's the ninjas?
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  And then the guy kind of jokingly like behind you and I
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  was like, huh. Huh, we're and then the guys,
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  like, there's a saying that if you throw a rock, you're
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  probably hitting ninja meaning, like I said earlier, they are
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  dispersed, all throughout Society.
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  So, more than likely, you're probably standing right next to
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  somebody. It could be your neighbor, it
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  could be the nice guy at the grocery store.
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  The the nice lady at the cafe or whatever anybody around, you
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  could be a ninja. And so I just love that theme
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  and it looks like and it looks like the term under ninja is
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  potentially reserved for like some of like the highest class
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  of ninjas and stuff. So which I which I am very
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  excited to care to see more of this story and this world
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  fleshed out and stuff. So but but yeah it's a hundred
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  minja. Like I said wanted to put on
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  your right arm. Like I said, this one has been a
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  long time coming because I've known under the manga has been
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  coming for a couple of years now and it kept In Adelaide.
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  But it is finally here. And there is also an anime
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  supposed to come out for supposedly later.
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  This year 2023. We'll see if that actually
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  happens or not but yeah. Bye.
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  All in all this is looking like it might be a pretty interesting
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  series to follow. Like I said, if you're watching
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  the video version of this, I'm sure like a little bit of like,
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  the little teaser trailer for The they put out for the anime.
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  It's non-spoilery just show like a bunch of just like various
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  characters and stuff from the, from the manga stuff.
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  So, but, but, yeah. So very, very, very interested
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  in seeing Where this series goes to and how it unfolds.
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  So, you know, looking like we're going to have a good time.
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  But enough of me rambling, talking, thank you all so much
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  for watching and listening, as always, make sure to check out
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  Lots of manga anime video games and just life in general.
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  And so with that, We are out ninja out.
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  Y'all have an awesome day. Peace.