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09-11-2010, 11:50 AM

In all honesty, I don't have much of an interest in seeing "Ninja Warrior". I'd rather watch Sasuke. At least if watching Sasuke, you can see all of the competitors, which may sometimes include other Americans outside of whoever G4 sends over, who will more than likely be conveniently left out for Ninja Warrior's showing. I also notice that sometimes, the competitors end up running the course out of order...for example, maybe competitor..um...50 might end up running after competitor 65 or something. I always found that strange.

"Ninja Warrior" cuts too much stuff out for my liking. Like for Sasuke 23 (24?), I found out that Oomori still runs the course after all these years. Earlier showings of Ninja Warrior have him, but after a while, they just stopped showing him and can't help but wonder if he's been running it the whole time. They even cut out what's his face...um...Yamada (Mr. Sasuke/Mr. Ninja Warrior) in the last showing I saw for Ninja Warrior. How in the world could they cut him out? I mean, he's one of the All Stars who's participated in pretty much every competition (almost) since he first tried it. That would be like cutting out Yamamoto Shingo, who is also another Sasuke/Ninja Warrior, legend, as he, to date, has participated in every single one.

So yeah....Sasuke > Ninja Warrior. I want to see everything, not what they pick for us to see and that includes other participants who might just happen to be American that aren't associated with G4, like that guy who participated in one of the 2008 ones, iirc. I do thank G4 for introducing me to the series, though, as if it hadn't been for G4, I'd have never known of the existence of Sasuke and wouldn't have started watching it. But looking at Sasuke, I can't bring myself to even consider going back to Ninja Warrior (not that I could since I'm in Japan anyway).

Edit: Just noticed a pattern. For the last competition, Sasuke came on at 7:00 pm on TBS on March 28 (last Sunday in March). The comp before it came on September 27 at 7:00 pm on TBS (also the last Sunday of the month). If this is truly a pattern, then maybe the upcoming competition will air on September 26 at 7:00.

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