CATDOLL: Production gone wrong? NICO Livestream of "Ninja Slayer" receives negative reviews

Ninja Slayer is a popular work in the United States and Japan. I believe many people are looking forward to it when they hear that it will be adapted into an animation. The production company is TRIGGER, which once produced KILL LA KILL. It is unlikely that anyone will have too much doubt about the production level. Each episode of the animation is 15 minutes long and will be broadcast online first. The TV version will be broadcast in 2016. Unexpectedly, it received a lot of negative comments after the NICO live broadcast on the evening of the 16th!

20.6% chose "very good", 10.4% chose "fairly good", 8.6% chose "average", 13.1% chose "not very good", and 47.2% chose "not good". If the results of "not very good" and "not good" are added together, more than half of the audience gave this work a bad review.

Ninja Slayer is a ninja novel written by American Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez. It became famous after being translated into Japanese by a Japanese translation team and serialized on Twitter. After the announcement of the animation version, fans have been looking forward to it, but they were surprised when they finally waited for the first episode. The alternative style and rough production made many netizens feel that they could not accept it. In addition, a three-dimensional dead fish appeared at the end, and it spoofed Kantai Collection.

Some netizens said: "I haven't watched the anime, but I feel angry just by looking at the screenshots on Twitter," "It's okay to watch only one episode, but I can't stand watching it for half a year," "The novel is so well written, why is the animation so bad?" "It can't be a good animation if it's broadcasted on Nico Nico first." However, some netizens who are more receptive said: "This is also interesting in another sense."

The entire animation is about ten minutes long and looks like the flash screen below:

The storyboards and drawings at the general animation level only take up five minutes:

The original promotional visuals made it hard to imagine that this was the same work as the first episode that aired...

The director of the anime version of "Ninja Slayer" is Tetsu Amamiya, and BOOM BOOM SATELLITES sings the theme song "Back in Black" for this work. The animation production company is TRIGGER, which has produced "Double Kill Girl" and "Little Witch Academia". The voice actors who appear in the show include Tomoyuki Morikawa, Sho Hayami, Chiwa Saito, Sora Amamiya, Risa Taneda, Masatane Tsukayama, Tetsuaki Genda, etc.

"Ninja Slayer" is set in Shinsaitama in the near future. The wife of ordinary office worker Kenji Fujikido was killed in a ninja battle, and he was possessed by a mysterious ninja spirit when he was on the verge of death. Fujikido, who was lucky enough to survive, became a "Ninja Slayer" who specializes in hunting down ninjas in order to avenge his hatred.