Yuriko concerns me, not that I believe she's in any danger but rather because she's seen two people die right before her eyes in the anime so far and seems to be entirely unaffected by it.
FluffyCow
Jun 9, 2025 9:59PM
Cute couple in a series that I couldn't keep watching because of the grim dark "humor". Something I can't personally laugh at, but I've seen a lot of people saying they find the series all around genuinely laugh out loud hilarious, and hey more people to people that can laugh at the disturbing content. The series really feels like a Yuri Mousetrap to me, cute lesbian couple is the cheese, and then the iron bar that snaps down and breaks my neck is the disturbing content that surrounds it lol
myrrhmidon
Jun 9, 2025 11:17PM
The yuri couple of the most yuri anime this season! Too bad Kuro is such a deadbeat loser lol
DylanOgg
Jun 10, 2025 12:18AM
It appears that the source of this photo does not exist, just like a Ninja. Fortunately, Ninja are only a fairytale.
larvi
Jun 10, 2025 12:20AM
its suggested that kuro might be altering yuri's memories
eromancer
Jun 10, 2025 6:19AM
This sounds like the kind of series that you just have to decide not to take seriously. As in, not care about the characters on a human level, kind of like "Always Sunny In Philadelphia" or "Seinfeld". From reading episode summaries, it sounds like if I got to caring I would constantly be rooting for Konoha to die, or in some way receive her just deserts.
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Bielna
Jun 10, 2025 11:29AM
Read someone say about this series "it's the kind of story where you want fewer gay girls, because they'll just end up as gay corpses" which made me laugh but also made me stay away from it.
Although I'm pretty sure that it was under a clip of those two that tempted me to watch it in the first place, so...
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myrrhmidon
Jun 10, 2025 12:21PM
^LMAO. At least the two here are still kicking. And as someone else has posted in another NinKoro image, so far a character surviving their introductory chapter means they will keep on living hopefully
ObsessiveFingerLicker
Jun 10, 2025 12:31PM
This series fit what would be called "dark humor" back in the day. Nowadays, this expression is associated with other things. One of the traits of this sort of humor is irony, so you will see some serious questionings during the series. My major problem with it, is the fact that the characters are all well designed and have their unique traits, then they get killed a few seconds after being introduced. And I mean it, sometimes even before being properly introduced. So I assume the author is planning something. Also with Konoha, whatever she's hiding is either a fucking joke or something that will make the tables turn.
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FluffyCow
Jun 10, 2025 1:35PM
@Bielna Honestly that's a very good way of putting it. It's a series where you go, oh hey look at all of these gay characters! And they're dead. It feels weirdly spiteful to me that this series is basically a slaughter house for gay characters, especially with how we often still struggle to get gay characters in movies and shows. That's just how I feel anyway, it's...a gross feeling that I can't personally shake off.
Perlen297
Jun 10, 2025 1:54PM
I feel like people are waaaay overstating the whole character deaths thing. It's immediately clear that most of these deaths, of ninja pursuers in particular, are just part of a running gag.
That's especially the case after the first group of ninja girls who were developed quite a bit. But that development really paid off in a recent episode in like the most ingenious way possible. Like, it's actually hilarious. Remember the house one of the ninja girls bought? Konoha and Satoko (and Marin) moved in because their apartment caught in fire. The ninja started haunting our main girls. Possessions and exorcism attempts followed, and the ghost of Kuro's yandere ex was also there. Hilarity ensues. And turns out, all the dead ninjas went to after life and we actually get to see them more semi-regularly after that. (Best episode so far btw, highly recommend!)
This show does have a core cast besides Konoha and Satoko where there's really no indication that they'll just die for whatever reason. This goes for the people that either of the two like. Included in that are this couple of course, Kuro and Yuriko. And there's Marin (BEST GIRL) who can defend herself being also an assassin with no intention of harming Satoko and Konoha (who she has a crush on). It's not like the dead ninja girls are gonna fit in with the cast anyways so I'm content with them being on their own space "living" together and goofing around.
I did say 'most' deaths because it's not all running gag. There's a couple of deaths that either did leave an impact on Konoha or the comedy was dropped entirely, like it was just a genuinely depressing situation. Those couple of episodes honestly really grew my confidence with this show ten-fold. So right now, NinKoro's one of the top anime this season for me.
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FluffyCow
Jun 10, 2025 2:37PM
I don't think I'm overstating or exaggerating, a lot of characters die and it makes me depressed and uncomfortable. I'm happy for anyone that thinks the series is hilarious and loves murder as a running gag, it's just not funny to me and I think the running gag is cruel. Though I do think the series is interesting to discuss because people have a variety of feelings with the series, there's both people like myself that are disturbed by it and people that really love the series, so the divisive nature of the series makes for some interesting conversation and I think all sides are valid in how they feel.
Perlen297
Jun 10, 2025 3:35PM
Yeah... a show about assassins will have deaths. That's already given. I don't know what to say if you really can't get past that.
It's not even that I "love murder as running gag" because the show deliberately presents it in a way that you won't have any time to actually care about (most of) the characters being killed. As for the characters that it did get you to care about, it's done for a reason. Plenty of details about that particular group of ninja girls eventually became relevant later on. Let's just say their screentime weren't wasted at all because they got way a lot more of it.
And again, it's not pure comedy either. One of those two particular deaths was played straight with zero humor, highlighting the many forms of ugliness in human society. The whole show is this, under the veneer of comedy is packed with modern social commentary. The disregard of human life is indeed a thing in the world of NinKoro and well, it is the same world where a whole system of assassins just exists after all.
Also, I don't get your focus on them being gay. Among the deaths so far, there weren't much of them beyond that group and Kuro's yandere ex. Most of them were individual ninjas chasing to kill Satoko or Konoha. So it's not like they're the main source of gayness in the show, the whole thing is yuri. The core non-dying cast are very much gay themselves with plenty of yuri moments to show.
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luinthoron
Jun 10, 2025 3:44PM
Lovely.
FluffyCow
Jun 10, 2025 4:08PM
I'm aware a story focused on assassins and ninjas will have deaths, I'm not against media having death, I watch all different kinds of media and I'm constantly curious about all different types of series. Including shows and movies that aren't my cup of tea, I want to see what people are making and what other people are enjoying. Which is why my comment wasn't meant to be sarcastic or anything, I'm genuinely happy for anyone that loves the series and thinks it's hilarious. More power to anyone that loves the running gag. For me the presentation of this series simply rubs me wrong, and I think the deaths in this series come across in a way that is comedic to certain people, and the kind of person that thinks the average slasher movie is a comedy would also find this hilarious. Which simply isn't how I personally process and view media such as this and slasher movies, which share an overlap in my mind. Also my wording in my previous comment maybe came off as rude and that wasn't my intent, so I apologize if I came off that way at all.
Yes the show has serious moments to show the ugliness of the world, while also having the beating heart of a dark comedy, for me that's very bleak and the comedy just rubs me of the wrong way with how it all blends together. If you think it's insightful and balances the comedy in a way that makes the series better for you that's cool.
I focus on the gay element because the series is very gay, and it's a bit along the lines of a crueler Yuru Yuri to me. Yuru Yuri is a series where the highlighted (both main and side) characters are all gay and that's a core foundation of the world that the series exists in, and how's how I also view this series. Yuru Yuri had a lot of comedy bits that rubbed me the wrong away and felt mean spirited but didn't have death. NinKoro to me is a series that feels very gay while also subjecting the characters to the most horrible things imaginable. Something about that doesn't sit well with me, and it's hard to entirely articulate apologies.
I also want to state again that it's fine that we have different views, for me NinKoro is interesting but very bleak and off putting, and while I feel that way I am genuinely happy for anyone that loves the series. I hope it continues to be a great experience for anyone that is loving it, and I hope it gets renewed for future seasons as well.
Bielna
Jun 10, 2025 6:06PM
Not surprising that a show like this would have two kinds of audience. Personally, I’m on the side that wants the gays to get girlfriends, not gravestones~
Wait, does that sentence make sense when they don't get gravestones in the first place ? Nevermind.
ObsessiveFingerLicker
Jun 10, 2025 9:20PM
@Perlen297 Marin is the best for sure. Anyways, the thing is: would the author really invest that much in characters meant just to die instantly as a running gag? Maybe the whole after life thing is the author's plan... But I think that the ressurection might have an important role in the story at some point. That's just my guess.
@FluffyCow This series is kinda like the Happy Tree Friends of yuri, so I totally understand your perspective. I don't think it's hilarious either, I'm watching for the yuri, but I can't deny that I don't care that much about the cruel side of the story. Which is what the show exposes in ourselves through irony.
Perlen297
Jun 10, 2025 10:28PM
@Bielna But the thing is: Most of the yuri in this show doesn't involve characters who just die. It's concentrated within the main non-dying very gay cast.
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Perlen297
Jun 10, 2025 10:40PM
@ObsessiveFingerLicker Apparently, most of that episode was written by the author themselves. They seem to be pretty involved with the anime production from what I've seen.
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eromancer
Jun 11, 2025 4:03AM
Honestly, this whole thing reminds me of back in the 90's when "Seinfeld" (showing may age a bit here) started to get a bit too cynical for many people's tastes in the final couple seasons, treating a convenient death like a gag and having the characters engage in some morally dubious behavior. Back then, sitcoms just didn't do that sort of thing. They were supposed to have heart, and you were supposed to care about the characters. There were supposed to be those "awwww ..." moments. It felt wrong to have everything played for laughs. I felt the same way at the time.
Yet a decade or so later I found it very easy to appreciate "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". The characters are all horrible people, and nobody is ever tempted to feel the slightest bit sorry for any of them when bad things happen. You can just laugh your ass off at them making constant idiots of themselves and each other--it's pure, unapologetically unsentimental comedy.
Point being, people's tastes change as their expectations of a medium change. Maybe for me, the intervening years of laughing at political humor or the surrealist stylings of animated comedies like "Space Ghost Coast to Coast", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", and "Robot Chicken" altered my expectations of what a funny show was supposed to provide. It looks like there's a genre of anime that's exploring that path, and maybe one day people like @FluffyCow will laugh along with it because they've come in with different expectations, despite right now having a 20th-century sitcom-viewer's taste in anime.
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FluffyCow
Jun 11, 2025 5:27AM
I wouldn't say I have a "20th-century sitcom-viewer's taste in anime". You simply have a different sense of humor than I do, and that's perfectly okay. It's just something I won't find funny and I know myself well enough to say that. Everyone has their preferences with comedy, and with that said I can still acknowledge that Studio Shaft did a good job with the production.
deltahalo241 Jun 9, 2025 9:59PM
Yuriko concerns me, not that I believe she's in any danger but rather because she's seen two people die right before her eyes in the anime so far and seems to be entirely unaffected by it.
FluffyCow Jun 9, 2025 9:59PM
Cute couple in a series that I couldn't keep watching because of the grim dark "humor". Something I can't personally laugh at, but I've seen a lot of people saying they find the series all around genuinely laugh out loud hilarious, and hey more people to people that can laugh at the disturbing content. The series really feels like a Yuri Mousetrap to me, cute lesbian couple is the cheese, and then the iron bar that snaps down and breaks my neck is the disturbing content that surrounds it lol
myrrhmidon Jun 9, 2025 11:17PM
The yuri couple of the most yuri anime this season! Too bad Kuro is such a deadbeat loser lol
DylanOgg Jun 10, 2025 12:18AM
It appears that the source of this photo does not exist, just like a Ninja. Fortunately, Ninja are only a fairytale.
larvi Jun 10, 2025 12:20AM
its suggested that kuro might be altering yuri's memories
eromancer Jun 10, 2025 6:19AM
This sounds like the kind of series that you just have to decide not to take seriously. As in, not care about the characters on a human level, kind of like "Always Sunny In Philadelphia" or "Seinfeld". From reading episode summaries, it sounds like if I got to caring I would constantly be rooting for Konoha to die, or in some way receive her just deserts.
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Bielna Jun 10, 2025 11:29AM
Read someone say about this series "it's the kind of story where you want fewer gay girls, because they'll just end up as gay corpses" which made me laugh but also made me stay away from it.
Although I'm pretty sure that it was under a clip of those two that tempted me to watch it in the first place, so...
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myrrhmidon Jun 10, 2025 12:21PM
^LMAO. At least the two here are still kicking. And as someone else has posted in another NinKoro image, so far a character surviving their introductory chapter means they will keep on living hopefully
ObsessiveFingerLicker Jun 10, 2025 12:31PM
This series fit what would be called "dark humor" back in the day. Nowadays, this expression is associated with other things. One of the traits of this sort of humor is irony, so you will see some serious questionings during the series. My major problem with it, is the fact that the characters are all well designed and have their unique traits, then they get killed a few seconds after being introduced. And I mean it, sometimes even before being properly introduced. So I assume the author is planning something. Also with Konoha, whatever she's hiding is either a fucking joke or something that will make the tables turn.
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FluffyCow Jun 10, 2025 1:35PM
@Bielna Honestly that's a very good way of putting it. It's a series where you go, oh hey look at all of these gay characters! And they're dead. It feels weirdly spiteful to me that this series is basically a slaughter house for gay characters, especially with how we often still struggle to get gay characters in movies and shows. That's just how I feel anyway, it's...a gross feeling that I can't personally shake off.
Perlen297 Jun 10, 2025 1:54PM
I feel like people are waaaay overstating the whole character deaths thing. It's immediately clear that most of these deaths, of ninja pursuers in particular, are just part of a running gag.
That's especially the case after the first group of ninja girls who were developed quite a bit. But that development really paid off in a recent episode in like the most ingenious way possible. Like, it's actually hilarious. Remember the house one of the ninja girls bought? Konoha and Satoko (and Marin) moved in because their apartment caught in fire. The ninja started haunting our main girls. Possessions and exorcism attempts followed, and the ghost of Kuro's yandere ex was also there. Hilarity ensues. And turns out, all the dead ninjas went to after life and we actually get to see them more semi-regularly after that. (Best episode so far btw, highly recommend!)
This show does have a core cast besides Konoha and Satoko where there's really no indication that they'll just die for whatever reason. This goes for the people that either of the two like. Included in that are this couple of course, Kuro and Yuriko. And there's Marin (BEST GIRL) who can defend herself being also an assassin with no intention of harming Satoko and Konoha (who she has a crush on). It's not like the dead ninja girls are gonna fit in with the cast anyways so I'm content with them being on their own space "living" together and goofing around.
I did say 'most' deaths because it's not all running gag. There's a couple of deaths that either did leave an impact on Konoha or the comedy was dropped entirely, like it was just a genuinely depressing situation. Those couple of episodes honestly really grew my confidence with this show ten-fold. So right now, NinKoro's one of the top anime this season for me.
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FluffyCow Jun 10, 2025 2:37PM
I don't think I'm overstating or exaggerating, a lot of characters die and it makes me depressed and uncomfortable. I'm happy for anyone that thinks the series is hilarious and loves murder as a running gag, it's just not funny to me and I think the running gag is cruel. Though I do think the series is interesting to discuss because people have a variety of feelings with the series, there's both people like myself that are disturbed by it and people that really love the series, so the divisive nature of the series makes for some interesting conversation and I think all sides are valid in how they feel.
Perlen297 Jun 10, 2025 3:35PM
Yeah... a show about assassins will have deaths. That's already given. I don't know what to say if you really can't get past that.
It's not even that I "love murder as running gag" because the show deliberately presents it in a way that you won't have any time to actually care about (most of) the characters being killed. As for the characters that it did get you to care about, it's done for a reason. Plenty of details about that particular group of ninja girls eventually became relevant later on. Let's just say their screentime weren't wasted at all because they got way a lot more of it.
And again, it's not pure comedy either. One of those two particular deaths was played straight with zero humor, highlighting the many forms of ugliness in human society. The whole show is this, under the veneer of comedy is packed with modern social commentary. The disregard of human life is indeed a thing in the world of NinKoro and well, it is the same world where a whole system of assassins just exists after all.
Also, I don't get your focus on them being gay. Among the deaths so far, there weren't much of them beyond that group and Kuro's yandere ex. Most of them were individual ninjas chasing to kill Satoko or Konoha. So it's not like they're the main source of gayness in the show, the whole thing is yuri. The core non-dying cast are very much gay themselves with plenty of yuri moments to show.
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luinthoron Jun 10, 2025 3:44PM
Lovely.
FluffyCow Jun 10, 2025 4:08PM
I'm aware a story focused on assassins and ninjas will have deaths, I'm not against media having death, I watch all different kinds of media and I'm constantly curious about all different types of series. Including shows and movies that aren't my cup of tea, I want to see what people are making and what other people are enjoying. Which is why my comment wasn't meant to be sarcastic or anything, I'm genuinely happy for anyone that loves the series and thinks it's hilarious. More power to anyone that loves the running gag. For me the presentation of this series simply rubs me wrong, and I think the deaths in this series come across in a way that is comedic to certain people, and the kind of person that thinks the average slasher movie is a comedy would also find this hilarious. Which simply isn't how I personally process and view media such as this and slasher movies, which share an overlap in my mind. Also my wording in my previous comment maybe came off as rude and that wasn't my intent, so I apologize if I came off that way at all.
Yes the show has serious moments to show the ugliness of the world, while also having the beating heart of a dark comedy, for me that's very bleak and the comedy just rubs me of the wrong way with how it all blends together. If you think it's insightful and balances the comedy in a way that makes the series better for you that's cool.
I focus on the gay element because the series is very gay, and it's a bit along the lines of a crueler Yuru Yuri to me. Yuru Yuri is a series where the highlighted (both main and side) characters are all gay and that's a core foundation of the world that the series exists in, and how's how I also view this series. Yuru Yuri had a lot of comedy bits that rubbed me the wrong away and felt mean spirited but didn't have death. NinKoro to me is a series that feels very gay while also subjecting the characters to the most horrible things imaginable. Something about that doesn't sit well with me, and it's hard to entirely articulate apologies.
I also want to state again that it's fine that we have different views, for me NinKoro is interesting but very bleak and off putting, and while I feel that way I am genuinely happy for anyone that loves the series. I hope it continues to be a great experience for anyone that is loving it, and I hope it gets renewed for future seasons as well.
Bielna Jun 10, 2025 6:06PM
Not surprising that a show like this would have two kinds of audience. Personally, I’m on the side that wants the gays to get girlfriends, not gravestones~
Wait, does that sentence make sense when they don't get gravestones in the first place ? Nevermind.
ObsessiveFingerLicker Jun 10, 2025 9:20PM
@Perlen297 Marin is the best for sure. Anyways, the thing is: would the author really invest that much in characters meant just to die instantly as a running gag? Maybe the whole after life thing is the author's plan... But I think that the ressurection might have an important role in the story at some point. That's just my guess.
@FluffyCow This series is kinda like the Happy Tree Friends of yuri, so I totally understand your perspective. I don't think it's hilarious either, I'm watching for the yuri, but I can't deny that I don't care that much about the cruel side of the story. Which is what the show exposes in ourselves through irony.
Perlen297 Jun 10, 2025 10:28PM
@Bielna But the thing is: Most of the yuri in this show doesn't involve characters who just die. It's concentrated within the main non-dying very gay cast.
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Perlen297 Jun 10, 2025 10:40PM
@ObsessiveFingerLicker Apparently, most of that episode was written by the author themselves. They seem to be pretty involved with the anime production from what I've seen.
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eromancer Jun 11, 2025 4:03AM
Honestly, this whole thing reminds me of back in the 90's when "Seinfeld" (showing may age a bit here) started to get a bit too cynical for many people's tastes in the final couple seasons, treating a convenient death like a gag and having the characters engage in some morally dubious behavior. Back then, sitcoms just didn't do that sort of thing. They were supposed to have heart, and you were supposed to care about the characters. There were supposed to be those "awwww ..." moments. It felt wrong to have everything played for laughs. I felt the same way at the time.
Yet a decade or so later I found it very easy to appreciate "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". The characters are all horrible people, and nobody is ever tempted to feel the slightest bit sorry for any of them when bad things happen. You can just laugh your ass off at them making constant idiots of themselves and each other--it's pure, unapologetically unsentimental comedy.
Point being, people's tastes change as their expectations of a medium change. Maybe for me, the intervening years of laughing at political humor or the surrealist stylings of animated comedies like "Space Ghost Coast to Coast", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", and "Robot Chicken" altered my expectations of what a funny show was supposed to provide. It looks like there's a genre of anime that's exploring that path, and maybe one day people like @FluffyCow will laugh along with it because they've come in with different expectations, despite right now having a 20th-century sitcom-viewer's taste in anime.
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FluffyCow Jun 11, 2025 5:27AM
I wouldn't say I have a "20th-century sitcom-viewer's taste in anime". You simply have a different sense of humor than I do, and that's perfectly okay. It's just something I won't find funny and I know myself well enough to say that. Everyone has their preferences with comedy, and with that said I can still acknowledge that Studio Shaft did a good job with the production.
Mugino Jun 12, 2025 2:39PM
They almost, segs in front of Satoko