>>5828759The movie goes well, but something was clearly wrong with Masami the whole time. She had probably never been to a movie with a friend before so it was making her nervous. You had never been in a theater before, period, so the protocol of what you were supposed to act like is mostly lost on you. You decide to just quietly watch the movie in a respectful and subdued manner and try not to let her weird attitude about it get to you.
It was alright. Honestly, the only reason you liked the movie the first time was because Masami’s mannerisms while watching it were cute and amusing to you. This time you’re the one who keeps checking her face to see if she’s enjoying it, but that just winds up with the two of you making a lot of weird eye contact while she fidgets. She was kind of… distracting. You resolve to just focus on the dogs.
The plot was about the ninja dogs going through Chunin exams in the dog village of Koengakure (The Village Hidden in the Park.), a ninja village full of dogs and puppies. Cat ninja also take part in the exams and use devious methods to sabotage the whole thing, culminating with the cats trying to assassinate the Inukage and the core group of ninja dogs needing to band together to fight off various threats that were built up and foreshadowed during the Chunin exams arc. All in all the plot was dumb and didn’t really make any sense. Why did the cats try to assassinate the Inukage, again? Apparently they were just dicks and did it out of spite. A bit illogical, why would someone go through all of that trouble just to be spiteful? There weren’t any people who were actually just like that. You thought the movie was kind of stupid and for kids, but… It occurs to you that most of the people in the theater were young, but only slightly younger than yourself. It was more of an age 6-12 kind of experience.
You suppose you were enjoying it, but from the perspective of some kind of art critic trying to appreciate the cinematography and artistry of it. You weren’t really invested in the plot and were having trouble getting genuinely immersed. Maybe ‘ninja’ was just a more mature demographic? Ironic, considering the theme of the movie. It also occurs to you that despite Konoha being a ninja village the vast majority of people living here and in the theater in particular were just normal villagers, some of whom were looking at you like a superhero because you’re just dressed in your normal gear, headband included. It made you a little uncomfortable realizing how impossible it was for you to even relate to them. You realize you saw non-ninja as a different species, these bizarre people with bizarre lives that you had a hard time grasping for fundamental empathy with.
