Complete! Ninja Gum!

Complete! Ninja Gum! is the first episode of Ninjala (anime). It follows Burton, Berecca, and Ron, as they complete the Ninja Gum. It was released on January 8th, 2022 in Japan on TV Tokyo.
==Overview==
When chewed by the descendants of ninja, "Ninja Gum" can bring out their latent abilities in a powerful way. Burton, Berreca, and Ron are three researchers who are secretly working on the development of the gum. They have been experimenting with it for three whole years, and have been recording failures. Then one day, the experiment seemed to be a failure as usual, but...
==Synopsis==
Legends say that long ago a meteor crashed upon a country and before long, people with supernatural powers emerged from there called Ninja. They served the local lords on reconnaissance missions until their work was no longer needed. The ninjas were then scattered all across the world wherein the present time, the ninja descendants now live.
Burton is prepared for his day by his intricate alarm clock and when led outside, he's awoken by Ms. Peggy who reprimands him for the noise he made that night. Playing coy, Burton manages to lose Ms. Peggy and head to the lab where fellow scientists Berecca and Ron are at to perfect the Ninja-Gum. Despite their failure record of 2502 failed attempts to perfect the gum, Burton is optimistic and says a famous Thomas Edison quote. Berecca is still cynical about trying 10,000 times just to succeed, but Burton makes some adjustments based on the prior day's trial. It, however, is another failure due to its bad taste and Ron compiles the error data for Burton. Ron then leaves following his 11 am schedule leaving Burton and Berecca to take a break until he returns. Outside, Ron is tailed by an elusive man while Burton and Berecca go to a coffee shop for breakfast. There they review over the three years' worth of data comprised of their failures and reminisce on how they first met Ron. When their food is served, Burton the pattern on his coffee reminds him of the Fibonacci Sequence making him elucidate its pattern to Berecca. Unbeknownst to the two, a man was attentively watching them.
Afterward, once Ron returned to the lab, the 2503rd gum trial began with Burton unknowingly adding Goro the cat as an ingredient. This is only realized when the machine fails to work and after Goro is rescued, his bell is seen to be missing which causes the machine to overload and explode. In the aftermath of the explosion, the gum is proven to be a complete success as shown when Burton and Berecca try it. Outside two men that followed the group confront one another and immediately after Ron copies the data from his findings and to test the gum's effects on people, he attacks Burton. The two then fight, but Burton wins and Ron escapes using a bomb. Landing in a nearby park, Burton explains to Berecca the gum's abilities. Amid his explanation, the two of them transform into kids again and a man watching this reports it to his master. Later Burton and Berecca purchase clothes that fit their size and elsewhere the other spy reports the news to his master, who seems pleased by it. Back to Burton and Berecca, they break into their old lab via a vent to find out that it was cleaned of everything in it.
==Characters in order of appearance==
*Burton
*Ms. Peggy
*Goro
*Berecca
*Ron
*Kappei
*Gen'unsai
*Emma
*Van
*John
*Lucy
Category:Season 1 episodes