#190: Ninja Scroll

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Way back when, anime made its way to western audiences primarily via three important films: Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and today's topic, Ninja Scroll. Released in Japan in the summer of 1993, Ninja Scroll quickly meandered west, where it garnered a substantial hardcore audience during the VHS era and into the DVD era. That's especially strange, since -- back in its native country -- Ninja Scroll wasn't much of a hit at all. That wasn't true outside of Japan's borders, however, where nearly 30 years later, it's still considered an all-time great and a seminal piece of Japanese culture. So let's jump into Feudal Japan and sort through a very video game-like plot about a couple of samurai slicing and dicing through eight foes with special powers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
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0:13.9	Greetings and salutations welcome back to the knockback.
0:16.1	My name is Colin Moriardium joined us always by my brother Dagen the gold mine and Moriardy Dagen.
0:22.0	Thank you so much for being here today. How are you?
0:24.1	You always go in a direction I'm not expecting.
0:27.3	I've really always throw curveball I never know.
0:30.5	Yeah, I never know I never know what to say sometimes it's going to be a character sometimes it's going to be some sort of
0:35.3	referential you know gold mining
0:38.7	somewhat of a reference to an indiscrol yeah go in directions that I often don't expect as well.
0:44.4	It's good to uh it's good to be be here with you so what's going on in your life?
0:48.5	What's uh catch me up a little bit how's everything going how do you feel?
0:52.7	Eddie etc etc. Oh this is a perfect time to do my um my my only impression the only impression I could do
1:11.2	Literally the only impression I could do not well I didn't say I did pretty good it's pretty good
1:16.8	not bad it's no it is well that's a no that's an older one I mean that's one you've broken out
1:20.5	That's been a while since I've broken out Bob
1:24.9	But uh you know I'm thinking about food man
1:28.0	I was thinking about you too because I haven't talked to you about this in a little while
1:31.5	But you and I historically were on the same wavelength with this as far as eating habits during the day like
1:38.2	It occurred to me I don't eat I really don't eat anything at all until like 2 2 30 in the afternoon
1:44.2	I'm just not hungry
1:46.2	And it's sort of a domino effect because
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