TV series

Kamen no Ninja Akakage

1987–1988 · 1 season

A colourful, gadget-filled romp through feudal Japan, breezy and playful with masked heroes battling monsters and warlords each week.

Overview: Red Shadow, created by Yokoyama Mitsuteru, is a ninja who wears a red-and-black costume and a stylized red mask. His adventures take place in Feudal Japan, and he and his ninja sidekicks Aokage and Shirokage fight evil warlords, wizards and daikaiju using modern high-tech gadgetry (a blatant oddity in a period setting).
How it feels: Light, whimsical, campy and earnest. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Survival, friendship, loyalty, power
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Full breakdown

Tone: lightstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
friendship
loyalty
power
violence
Places: fantasy world
countryside
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: serialised
animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none