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ninja scroll is often an anime of old people are fond of and can also be found at the top of alot of favorites list and i can see why . but dose it really hold up as well as people think ? well yes AND no.

Story: ushaly the most important part but here it dose take the background for the action and animation , and it very much is a product of its times , its full of cliches like the sexy woman falls for our aloof lead in a mere matter of in universe days , the badguy spouting " i should have killed you when i had the chance " , or even among the villians haveing a "he died because he was weak " mentality , and the villian wanting total control over blank thing and alot of other action movie tropes that are tired and exausting to watch , but this is a product of its time and being its age , some anime age well because of their storys like gundam and cowboy beepop and some hold up because of other things 

Animation: LIKE ANIMATION seriously this animation is better than most anime films today , its dark and gritty and artsy at times , everything really detailed and physics are portrayed really nicely , even the ninja magic physics . the fight choreography is really well done even if it dose have a few sections of wonky reused fottage but for an anime of 1995 thats a minor gripe , the lighting is exalent even for a dimly lit anime 

sound : sound is ushaly a weird one to judge because you dont really notice it and to be truthful i watched the English dub and i thought it was pretty good a cut above the early dubs but i wouldnt say up to todays standards , jubies voice fit him perfectly at least to my ears . now i wanna give a special mention to the sound design witch for the most part in anime isnt really thought of BUT the anime of today seem to use most of the same sound effects ESPECIALY for sword fights , The cast iron pan sound seems to be put in almost every sword fight in anime now a days , beserk 2016/2017 being the worst offender , princess principal as well and it was really nice to see rather hear a pleasent early dub and great sound effects , sadly i never noticed the music 

charcters: our lead and our heroin are pretty much the only charcters of note , ones a girl who is imune to poisen and her self is poisines and i thought that was interesting , and jubei a wandering merc who will lend his sword for money but Ultimately dosent really wanna get involved , but dose and gets emotionaly attched witch is another troupe but i digress , it feels like its better here than in other media 

in the end the animation carrys this like i think i carry in overwatch boged down by just ok charcters , an outdated story but helped to the finnish by a good cheering sound