Shuriken School (2006–2007) User Reviews

American Cartoon with elements borrowed from anime

[zekryn · 7/10 · 13 January 2007]

I stumbled onto this the other day on the nicktoons network while browsing the TV guide. Seeing the word "Shuriken" in a nickelodeon cartoon, I was expecting to see some cheap rip off from an anime, which is seemingly to appear more and more, but I was pleasantly surprised.

The art style is more American, but they use anime expressions and themes. (Ninjas, girls in sailor school uniforms, etc) The voice acting is very nice, which is something rare to find in any English cartoon/English dubbed anime. While it does remind me of other titles, the story line and episode writing is pretty good.

If you're a big Anime fan that doesn't give anything Japanese themed that wasn't made in japan a chance, you won't like it. If that doesn't bother you, it's a real cute children's show that kids and adults alike can enjoy.

Also, the theme song is very, very catchy.

Mucha Lucha on Drugs

[tommypezmaster · 5/10 · 14 September 2007]

OK,really it's not that great a show,really all it tries to do is copy Mucha Lucha which was already better & funnier.There are sometimes when it's funny,but the rest nope,sorry can't feel it.It's too off the wall for it to make much sense for me.Now that it's airing on Nicktoons Netowrk and replacing classics like Rocko's Modern Life and Catscratch or even Invader ZIM,with CatDog,Yakkity Yak and Tak & The Power of Juju which all three sucked,it's another nail in the coffin for Nick's downfall.And to think we had those three before mentioned shows before shows like this began to take over the network.

Haha, This show is such a big rip off that I can't believed they haven't been sued yet.

Mucha Lucha- If you have ever seen this show then you know what I'm talking about. The 3 main stars goes to a school to teach them what they are. Same with the 3 stars from this show.

Ed, Edd, & Eddy: The name says it all nuff said.

Charlie Brown: Ezilan= Charlie Brown. Wow the first time UFS (comics.com) gets ripped off.

Also the animation is horrible. I hate how everything is so Baby looney Tunes looking. Nicktoons need this show is canceled because all the plots are nothing more then these kids doing all these typical Mucha Lucha stuff. Well good riddins!

I'm shocked of the overall rating of this cartoon

[geromeblingaillard · 9/10 · 30 May 2023]

This series is beautifully animated, very charmful, surprisingly good for everyone to watch (doesn't take the viewer for an idiot like Dora 4 exemple), has a lot of funny and creative visual gags, and most importantly has insanely loveable characters (including the main three, the literal entirety of the first year class, most of the teachers, and even the heroes rivals are very entertaining when onscreen). I watched it as a kid, re-watched it recently (available for free on YouTube) and I love it even more than in the past. It's a shame that it only got one season and that I can't find the movie, I would have watched 10 more seasons of this stuff. One of Xilam's best work in my humble opinion. Give it a watch, it's great.