Women of Ninja Warrior

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Attractive women are always a plus but I am the only heterosexual male I know who actually watches Kunoichi primarily for the competition and the obstacles. I enjoy comparing and contrasting it to Sasuke, and not in the oversimplified tone of "it's easier" that is used by so many. Obviously it will look easier juxtaposed against Sasuke because the obstacles are less rigorous but in my opinion Kunoichi is still very challenging in it's own right. Just because it looks "easier" than Sasuke doesn't mean it's easy in general. Besides, isn't that the whole point of having a competition for the women? You know, so the women actually have a chance of advancing further than they normally would? I have one question for anyone who has ever complained that Kunoichi is too easy. How would have you constructed the course differently? Which obstacles would you have used? Obstacles more similar to the ones on Sasuke, right? Again, that defeats the whole purpose of having a strictly female tournament! We've already seen what happens when most women take on Sasuke.

I think the course designers did a pretty apt job on the layout of Kunoichi. Throw in some modified versions of Sasuke obstacles and add some challenging original ones that are specifically designed to test one's balance. Kunoichi is a satellite show, or perhaps "sister" is a more appropiate term, of Sasuke anyway so it's not exactly supposed to be harder, easier, or the same in terms of level of difficulty. It's just different. It's customized for women. That's not hard to understand.

Besides, Kunoichi has evolved very similarly to Sasuke anyway. Sasuke generally sees anywhere from 5-15 people pass the first stage. In the more recent tournaments it's far less. Kunoichi's numbers were roughly the same in the past and in the 2007 tournament only four women advanced past stage one. Those numbers are comparable. If thirty women beat the first stage every tournament than I might buy that it's too easy.

And I suppose someone may use the argument that it must be easy because it was conquered three times by the same woman? True, but Ayako Miyake is a gymnastics and acrobatics spealist. She performed with Muscle Musical and you have to have an elite skill set to join their ranks. Given her small stature she was born to conquer Kunoichi. However, no one won the first three tournaments or the lastest one. Aside from Ayako the only women who came close were Yuko Mizuno and a couple others in Kunoichi 3. If Kunoichi were as easy as some people claimed don't you think it would have been beaten by multiple women on several different occasions rather than just one? Sasuke has already been beaten twice and was very nearly conquered in several other instances (Nagano comes within a split second of winning in 12, Yamada comes just a few feet away in 3, Kane Kosugi nearly wins 8).

Ultimately I'm saying that people who whine about Kunoichi being too easy are not only wrong but missing the entire point.