Ninjago

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu was a Danish-Canadian computer animated TV show produced by the LEGO Group, which used to air on Cartoon Network in the U.S. before moving to the streaming service Netflix. After the alternate continuity movie aired in 2017, the designs of the characters were drastically changed to resemble their appearance in said movie "to help new fans transition". What new fans? I'm (mostly) kidding, but I've never seen the movie, and I never plan to. Lloyd's voice actress for six years, seven seasons, and one special, Jillian Michaels, was also replaced by Sam Vincent, a well known Canadian voice actor, as well as a guy. I love Sam, but I've seen him in so many voice roles that it's now become difficult to see his characters as people when I know it's just him in a recording booth. Plus he sounds exactly like Eli Shane from *Slugterra*. The reason this was done is because Lloyd supposedly gains a love interest in season 8, which apparently required less of a prepubescent voice from the character. I take it that the writers and creators of this show have never heard of or seen Code Lyoko, where two tween love interests are both voiced by the same woman in the English dub. I've watched and loved this show since I was a kid, when its pilot first premiered all the way back on January 14, 2011. All fifteen seasons are currently available on Netflix. However, seasons 1 through 10 are packaged together as one show, and seasons 11 through 15 are packaged together and treated as a different one, even though it's all the same show, just different eras of it. It could be a rights thing because a different company animated the later seasons. Netflix doesn't even have all of the episode titles or individual synopses up. And even if they did, something tells me that they would be inaccurate, because Netflix. They're also available in English on YouTube as season compilations, as long as you're okay with subtitles. They're normally pretty hard to find, but I've managed to find the links to nearly all of them. The official LEGO YouTube channel also put every individual episode of *The Island* and *Seabound* up on their channel as well, as WildBrain's "season 3", which I downloaded, as well as "season 4", also known as *Ninjago Crystalized*. It's a good thing too, since after only three days, they were all deleted from LEGO's YouTube Channel, or at the very least changed to private or unlisted, including the season compilations. According to the links, they're unavailable in my country, and the playlist no longer exists. It's times like this where I wish I had a VPN. They were made public again on June 1st, 2022, the same day the first twelve episodes of season 15 were released on Netflix. Seriously though, sometimes it feels like even LEGO itself doesn't care about their longest running and arguably most successful show and original IP. Just look at the official costs of some of the sets! Not to mention the complete lack of promotion. After 11 years, 8 months, 3 weeks, and 6 days, the show came to an end on October 10, 2022 in the U.S., after airing four pilot episodes, two specials, fifteen seasons, and 210 episodes of content in between two different story crews (Hageman brothers and Bragi Schut, among many others involved with both), two different animation studios (WILFilm ApS and WildBrain), and two very different distribution services (Cartoon Network/traditional cable television vs. Netflix/streaming). Special: Day of the Departed (Takes place after season 6 and before 7) Special: The Island (Takes place after season 13 and before 14). All of that being said, there is a sequel/soft reboot series called *Ninjago Dragons Rising* on Netflix that came out in 2023, but I don't know if I'm going to review it or not.

## Pilot Episodes

Episode 1: "Way of the Ninja" Episode 2: "The Golden Weapon" Episode 3: "King of Shadows" Episode 4: "Weapons of Destiny"

## Season 1: Rise of the Snakes

Episode 1: "Rise of the Snakes" Episode 2: "Home" Episode 3: "Snakebit" Episode 4: "Never Trust a Snake" Episode 5: "Can of Worms" Episode 6: "The Snake King" Episode 7: "Tick Tock" Episode 8: "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" Episode 9: "The Royal Blacksmiths" Episode 10: "The Green Ninja" Episode 11: "All or Nothing" Episode 12: "The Rise of the Great Devourer" Episode 13: "Day of the Great Devourer"

## Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja

Episode 1: "Darkness Shall Rise" Episode 2: "Pirates vs. Ninja" Episode 3: "Double Trouble" Episode 4: "Ninjaball Run" Episode 5: "Child's Play" Episode 6: "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" Episode 7: "The Stone Army" Episode 8: "The Day Ninjago Stood Still" Episode 9: "The Last Voyage" Episode 10: "Island of Darkness" Episode 11: "The Last Hope" Episode 12: "Return of the Overlord" Episode 13: "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master"

## Season 3: Rebooted

Episode 1: "The Surge" Episode 2: "The Art of the Silent Fist" Episode 3: "Blackout" Episode 4: "The Curse of the Golden Master" Episode 5: "Enter the Digiverse" Episode 6: "Codename: Arcturus" Episode 7: "The Void" Episode 8: "The Titanium Ninja"

## Season 4: Tournament of Elements

Episode 1: "The Invitation" Episode 2: "Only One Can Remain" Episode 3: "Versus" Episode 4: "Ninja Roll" Episode 5: "Spy for a Spy" Episode 6: "Spellbound" Episode 7: "The Forgotten Element" Episode 8: "The Day of the Dragon" Episode 9: "The Greatest Fear of All" Episode 10: "The Corridor of Elders"

## Season 5: Possession

Episode 1: "Winds of Change" Episode 2: "Ghost Story" Episode 3: "Stiix and Stones" Episode 4: "The Temple on Haunted Hill" Episode 5: "Peak-a-Boo" Episode 6: "Kingdom Come" Episode 7: "The Crooked Path" Episode 8: "Grave Danger" Episode 9: "Curseworld, Part I" Episode 10: "Curseworld, Part II"

## Season 6: Skybound

Episode 1: "Infamous" Episode 2: "Public Enemy Number One" Episode 3: "Enkrypted" Episode 4: "Misfortune Rising" Episode 5: "On a Wish and a Prayer" Episode 6: "My Dinner with Nadakhan" Episode 7: "Wishmasters" Episode 8: "The Last Resort" Episode 9: "Operation Land Ho!" Episode 10: "The Way Back"

## Season 7: Hands of Time

Episode 1: "The Hands of Time" Episode 2: "The Hatching" Episode 3: "A Time of Traitors" Episode 4: "Scavengers" Episode 5: "A Line in the Sand" Episode 6: "The Attack" Episode 7: "Secrets Discovered" Episode 8: "Pause and Effect" Episode 9: "Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea" Episode 10: "Lost in Time"

## Season 8: Sons of Garmadon

Episode 1: "The Mask of Deception" Episode 2: "The Jade Princess" Episode 3: "The Oni and the Dragon" Episode 4: "Snake Jaguar" Episode 5: "Dead Man's Squall" Episode 6: "The Quiet One" Episode 7: "Game of Masks" Episode 8: "Dread On Arrival" Episode 9: "True Potential" Episode 10: "Big Trouble, Little Ninjago"

## Season 9: Hunted

Episode 1: "Firstbourne" Episode 2: "Iron & Stone" Episode 3: "Radio Free Ninjago" Episode 4: "How to Build a Dragon" Episode 5: "The Gilded Path" Episode 6: "Two Lies, One Truth" Episode 7: "The Weakest Link" Episode 8: "Saving Faith" Episode 9: "Lessons for a Master" Episode 10: "Green Destiny"

## Season 10: March of the Oni

Episode 95: "The Darkness Comes" Episode 96: "Into the Breach" Episode 97: "The Fall" Episode 98: "Endings"

## Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu

Episode 1: "Wasted True Potential" Episode 2: "Questing for Quests" Episode 3: "A Rocky Start" Episode 4: "The Belly of the Beast" Episode 5: "Boobytraps and How to Survive Them" Episode 6: "The News Never Sleeps!" Episode 7: "Ninja vs Lava" Episode 8: "Snaketastrophy" Episode 9: "Powerless" Episode 10: "Ancient History" Episode 11: "Never Trust a Human" Episode 12: "Under Siege" Episode 13: "The Explorers Club" Episode 14: "Vengeance is Mine!" Episode 15: "A Cold Goodbye" Episode 16: "The Never-Realm" Episode 17: "Fire Maker" Episode 18: "An Unlikely Ally" Episode 19: "The Absolute Worst" Episode 20: "The Message" Episode 21: "The Traveler's Tree" Episode 22: "Krag's Lament" Episode 23: "Secret of the Wolf" Episode 24: "The Last of the Formlings" Episode 25: "My Enemy, My Friend" Episode 26: "The Kaiju Protocol" Episode 27: "Corruption" Episode 28: "A Fragile Hope" Episode 29: "Once and for All" Episode 30: "Awakenings"

## Season 12: Prime Empire

Episode 1: "Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?" Episode 2: "Dyer Island" Episode 3: "Level Thirteen" Episode 4: "Superstar Rockin' Jay" Episode 5: "I am Okino" Episode 6: "The Glitch" Episode 7: "The Cliffs of Hysteria" Episode 8: "The Maze of the Red Dragon" Episode 9: "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" Episode 10: "Racer Seven" Episode 11: "The Speedway Five-Billion" Episode 12: "Stop, Drop and Side Scroll" Episode 13: "Ninjago Confidential" Episode 14: "The Prodigal Father" Episode 15: "The Temple of Madness" Episode 16: "Game Over"

## Season 13: Master of the Mountain

Episode 1: "Shintaro" Episode 2: "Into the Dark" Episode 3: "The Worst Rescue Ever" Episode 4: "The Two Blades" Episode 5: "Queen of the Munce" Episode 6: "Trial By Mino" Episode 7: "The Skull Sorcerer" Episode 8: "The Real Fall" Episode 9: "Dungeon Party!" Episode 10: "Dungeon Crawl!" Episode 11: "Grief-Bringer" Episode 12: "Masters Never Quit" Episode 13: "The Darkest Hour" Episode 14: "The Ascent" Episode 15: "The Upply Strike Back!" Episode 16: "The Son of Lilly"

## Season 14: Seabound

Episode 1: "A Big Splash" Episode 2: "The Call of the Deep" Episode 3: "Unsinkable" Episode 4: "Five Thousand Fathoms Down" Episode 5: "The Wrath of Kalmaar" Episode 6: "Long Live the King" Episode 7: "Escape from Merlopia" Episode 8: "The Tale of Benthomaar" Episode 9: "The Storm Amulet" Episode 10: "Riddle of the Sphinx" Episode 11: "Papergirl" Episode 12: "Master of the Sea" Episode 13: "The Calm Before the Storm" Episode 14: "Assault on Ninjago City" Episode 15: "Nyad" Episode 16: "The Turn of the Tide"

## Season 15: Crystalized

Episode 1: "Farewell the Sea" Episode 2: "The Call of Home" Episode 3: "The Shape of Nya" Episode 4: "A Mayor Problem" Episode 5: "Public Enemies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5!" Episode 6: "A Painful Promise" Episode 7: "Ninjago City vs. Ninja" Episode 8: "Kryptarium Prison Blues" Episode 9: "Hounddog McBrag" Episode 10: "The Benefit of Grief" Episode 11: "The Fifth Villain" Episode 12: "The Council of the Crystal King" Episode 13: "A Sinister Shadow" Episode 14: "The Spider's Design" Episode 15: "The Fall of the Monastery" Episode 16: "Darkness Within" Episode 17: "The Coming of the King" Episode 18: "Return to Primeval's Eye" Episode 19: "Crystastrophe" Episode 20: "Christofern" Episode 21: "A Lesson in Anger" Episode 22: "Brave But Foolish" Episode 23: "Quittin' Time!" Episode 24: "Return of the Ice Emperor" Episode 25: "Safe Haven" Episode 26: "Compatible" Episode 27: "Distress Calls" Episode 28: "An Issue of Trust" Episode 29: "Dragon Form" Episode 30: "Roots"