How Dragons Rising SAVED Ninjago 

Sometimes i imagine a timeline where crusty was so dissapointed by crystallied he never actually watched DR

They really just handed Kai a child and it WORKED.

Hands of time, then SOG Crystalized, then dragons rising. It happened twice.

The season was an absolute BANGER. From Lloyd's vision, the Ninja separated and slowly reuniting, the KAI AND ZANE FOCUS, and amazing new characters perfectly balanced with the legacies, Dragon's Rising has it all!

I'm really happy that you're happy about Jay's absence. The moment I've seen him appear for only a few seconds, I knew the writers DO REAAAAALLY have big plans for the future of ninjago, just like they promised.

What I especially love about DR is that it picks up story lines that had been put on hold for several years by now. Especially for Lloyd. His Master arc has been fridged since 2017. Kai becoming a mentor for Wyldfire was great. I am really looking forward to what they'll do with Zane and especially Jay.

I love how Dragons Rising instead of having 1 villain it had 5 different ones under 1 faction. Each of them played a diff role, Beatrix: Leader, LaRow: Smart, Dorama: Magic, Rapton: Fighting, and Ras: Idk a mix of strength and smarts. It really makes Imperium like a whole community of villains rather than just a space for one like Merlopia with Kalmaar or Shintaro with Vangelis.

Seeing you so optimistic and happy about Ninjago again fills me with joy, you cant believe it! After the last year it is such a breave of fresh air comparing what came before. Look man, I love Crystalized. But it really did an...rather divided inpact on the show. Dragons Rising Season 1 completey redeems this division and is a step up in almost every way and tops many previous Seasons its unbeliveble! Im so happy with the current direction of Ninjago, I REALLY hope it stays this great 🤞 Your review was great, really worth the wait. 🎉

As someone who hasn’t watched the show since Season 5, I am SO happy Lloyd is finally making good on becoming a teacher. It’s a plot thread that’s been left dangling for far too long.

Giving Kai a character like Wyldfire to pair with and watch over and teach was one of the best things ever. Seeing Kai teach someone with his exact traits cranked to 500 the same stuff Wu taught him is such a refresher

One minor thing i love about dragons rising is that zane's head design finally looks good again. His head looked like shit for me since season 10

Imagine if in season 2, Lloyd and the others talk and somehow they get to the topic of harumi, and he just says "I dont wanna talk about that" with this "😒" tone in his voice. Just imagine.

My favorite Lloyd moment was I think the 2nd or 3rd episode, where he starts being upset that Arin and Sora left in the big hug for a festival before realizing that he and the others did stuff like that as well and couldn’t be that upset

I'm happy that I haven't seen anyone in the comments say that you need elemental powers to use spinjitzu.

I love how they split the old characters allowing us to get acquainted with Arin and Sora without distractions and the way they introduced Wildfire. Perfect move. Also the mystery about where Wu and Garmadon are is very suspenseful which is good considering that in just the span of a very few episodes they messed up the old mistery of Wu in Sons of Garmadon. Also the fact that Arin taught himself spinzitzu and doesnt have elemental powers, showing that anyone can be a ninja, even a kid is beautiful. Glad to have a very good balance.

Funny, I actually remember seeing this video pop up in my recommended feed before I started watching season 1 of Dragons Rising a couple months ago! I thought to myself that I must be in for a treat given how much everyone seemed to enjoy it. Flash-forward to now (I just finished watching it yesterday) and I must say: Dragons Rising season 1 is easily one of the best gifts I’ve seen out of Ninjago altogether! - It has a well-written and engaging story with good continuity (back to the 22 minute episodes thankfully). - I loved the newly introduced ninja (Sora, Arin and Wildfyre), many of the new villains (especially Rapton and LaRow) and other characters as well. - I enjoyed the pacing with each returning ninja and the essential character development for them (especially Kai and Zane - but seeing Lloyd finally embrace being a teacher was also good to see). - The visuals, animation and soundtrack also really improved and was lovely to see and hear throughout the season! There may be a few things I’m missing but overall I really enjoyed it! One of my favorite things out of Ninjago since the Oni trilogy personally. EDIT: I did write this before watching the video, so there may be certain other ideas you mention in here that I’ll also heavily agree with! Either way, such a breath of fresh air for the franchise!

After looking at just how meh the 11-minute era was to me (apart from MotM and definitely Seabound, Seabound is an example of a perfect season) Dragons Rising really just went back to basics but didn't forget what Ninjago was in its core and I salute it.

Good god they were COOKING this season My only nit pick with the season is that the spinjitzu movement doesn't look right. And Euphrasia's wind having a more cartoonish look than the realistic look we got in Possession

This is probably a hot take but: Dragons Rising season 1 is the BEST piece of Ninjago media so far. It was sooooo fresh and amazing. Once I finished all the episodes I genuinely wanted more! Can't wait for season 2! I hope my expectations will be exceeded once again.

Dragons Rising was the perfect mix of nostalgia and rebooting. Like you said, Dragon Rising didn't depend on "oh look its fan favourite character ___!" but instead used the pacing of OG Ninjago as their nostalgia jump off start. The 22 minute long episode, and the introduction of the new characters were all very pumped with nostalgia so that any old fan could watch the show as if it were their first time again without feeling disillusioned by all the new areas and lore pieces or bored by the constant need to point out stuff from old seasons. Its the perfect amount of subtle nostalgia that reminded me why I have sticked with this show for so long.

Absolutely love Lord Ras on all aspects. Also this would absolutely be a catalyst to revive another old Lego theme; Chima. Considering Chima is a canon realm to Ninjago, and seeing how Lord Ras is designed and animated, they could bring back that theme with a whole new design. Also theoretically, Ras might be from the realm of the Wyldness, which is theorized to he the whole of Chima.

Great review! This season was some good shit. For an IP so rooted in selling product and being around for over 10 years, it’s *very* easy to fall into a cycle of mediocrity and routine. Tired tropes, redundant plot lines and flanderizations of the cast are all issues with long running television that have to be overcome - this goes double for shows who, at their heart, exist only if they can sell enough product. Dragon’s Rising is the perfect balance. I think its biggest feat was the changes in the lore - expanding it and adding in the concept of the Merge. The Merge is probably the single best storytelling decision this theme has ever done, allowing the creatives to play around fully with the Ninjago world, use its realm concept to its fullest and bring about a new freshness. The visuals, the vibrant diverse species and merged elements are so good. Places like the Administration being a kind of corporate bureaucracy hell and the juxtaposition of such an ordered place having a meaningless purpose, resembling pure madness in the process is such a fun use of the show’s premise. DR just feels so *new* despite being damn near the 20th season or something lmao, which has to be commended. This wasn’t initiated off of a total reboot like the Oni Trilogy either, instead having a large mountain to scale following Crystalized. My favorite aspect of DR is easily the maturation of the main ninja. This has been my gripe with the show since even the classic era, with myself growing up with this theme but having the ninja stay as perpetual teenagers despite nearly a decade of adventures. The decision to age them all up and have them train a new generation of ninja is the proper - and imo necessary narrative next step for the IP. Characters like Wyldfyre or Sora can *only* work with these more mature versions of the ninja, and does the job of not only making the newer characters feel more unpolished and new, but also makes the ninja finally feel their experience. Characters like Kai who’ve been on the cusp of being a total shell of his former self is out there scribbling dozens of letters and mapmaking, charting routes and applying his knowledge of the various lands to help out the new ninja students, it makes him feel way more learned. The ejection of Wu from the story was bold as well, leaving Lloyd to fill that gap and have to balance that mantle from his uncle. This adds yet another dimension to him, and of course helps him mature. For the first time in years we are starting to see these countless adventures have an effect on the ninja, but this change feels so organic and natural that it feels like something that should just be expected. The new students are all great characters, with Sora being the highlight of the first season imo. Wyldfyre and Kai have gotta be my favorite pairing it’s just so FUN. Like I mentioned before that dynamic only functions with an older Kai, so it really feels like he’s raising a daughter or something that reflects his Season 1/pilot self. I’m expecting great stuff from that. Overall, it’s gotta be my favorite Ninjago season of all time. The mix of narrative boldness, actually executing its premise well, the new fun characters and perfecting the herculanean feat of finally letting the ninja *grow up* is stuff that makes me respect it more as a season than even Hunted or Sons. It’s just doing too much right for me and it’s currently delivering everything I want out of a modern Ninjago. If the rest of Dragons Rising maintains this level of planning and quality, I would easily say we’re entering another golden age in terms of the program itself.

Jay has a lot of potential for dragon rising, not only does he have memory loss. but Nadakhan has never really been defeated and because of that one character in season 1 part 2 he might come back someday

*After Crystalized* Fans: Did you die? Ninjago: Unfortunatly yes Fans: 😰😰😰😰 *After Dragons Rising S1* Ninjago: But I lived

This season is really refreshing but I really hope we get some returning characters in the next season like Misako and Pixel. Also all of the last 5 seasons have teased Nadakhans return. I’m really glad he didn’t return in this season because there was already a lot going on in the entirety of Crystallized was just old stuff but I do hope he returns eventually because there is a lot of potential with his return (assuming the writers don’t ruin his character like they did with Harumi). Also if he doesn’t return despite five seasons in a row teasing him returning, I’m going to throw someone out my window

As someone who enjoyed Crystalized when it came out, it’s definitely hard to think of what could’ve been. I was really unsure about Ninjago as whole going into 2023 and with other things going on it was just a really awkward time, so when I watched the first 10 episodes of Dragons Rising, I was absolutely blown away. Dragons Rising made me realize what we were missing from Ninjago, well paced episodes, amazing character arcs, and incredible world building. And can I just say that even though Jay is my favorite ninja, I’m gonna be real, I didn’t miss him that much 😂 even without him, characters like Cole, Kai, Sora, and Geo just make up for it in every way possible. Master piece…

Dragons Rising solved the problem of Ninjago not having too many original villains, and allowing more world building, power scaling and character development. The only problem I have with it is that unless there's some magical spell that brings all the 16, no sorry, 14 and a half realms back to their original states, the producers might forget significant events that happened because of the insane amount of stuff that happens when the realms merged together. Coalescence really went out for blood.

Crystallized and Harumi really did just give everyone PTSD

some people only hate this season because some certain main characters didn't show up, like were those people actually expecting everything to fit into only 1 season? not even crystalized (controversialized) could do that.

After Controversialized (Crystalized), DR was a nice change of pace

dragons risng is the best peace of ninjago media since the oni trilogy

I have yet to watch the whole season, but the concept of Dragon Rising really made me appreciate the show, as a reboot, or a continuation, done right. During the Secrets of Forbidden Spinjitzu - Crystalized, the sole reason that kept me in touch with Ninjago was LEGO delivering good looking sets, not the story itself. That's sad, especially to a fan since the very beginning (the Pilot season) like me. I started Dragon Rising thinking it was an another attempt to milk the franchise, but then it was truly refreshing & did not solely rely on old plot threads & nostalgia to impress me. I hope the show can keep this quality later down the line.

The Ratatouille gag was an accurate representation. Also, that "but" joke, was just so good 😂

I wanna know what happened with the dark island. People in ninjago have been avoiding it for years because of the dark matter and stuff. But the other realms don’t know about that! What if its infested by gloomy people who accidentally made contact with anti matter

I like how they now have wildfire arin sora and ryu on their team now I love it

I think personally the only problem i have with dragons risings Is the fact jay is in the show for about 2 minutes and other then the occasional of comment of him being gone hes completely forgotten.

Fantastic video! You summarised my thoughts on this season fantastically. I really can't express how exciting it is as a long-time Ninjago fan who's been here from the start to see just how FUN, colourful and imaginative Dragons Rising is. It's a breath of fresh air that the series needed to survive long term. I doubt we've seen the end of the best of what this show has to offer. Arin might not have had a major development yet, but if they continue to push his best traits forwards, and hammer home that powers aren't needed to make a ninja, he could end up being one of my absolute favourite characters in the show. Sora was the dark horse here, I never expected to like her as much as I did. She was so charming and I adore her arc and how she solved the conflict with her parents. It was such a knife twist realising they still believed in Beatrix after everything the team did to expose her cruelty. I'm glad you brought up what the show should keep doing in order to maintain this quality. If I have the time I want to make a short video about it, just so I can have my thoughts on how the show can improve out in the wild. Awesome work Crusty!

i just started watching dragons rising with my sisters yesterday. We started ep 1 not expecting much. 4 hours later and we had binged 9 episodes and were literally on our feet screaming after the cliffhanger for Zane's appearance. I was genuinely shocked to find how much I got invested in this series, and don't think it's too far of a stretch to say it might be peak Ninjago.

You're actually my age! Glad to see a peer enjoying Dragons rising as me, plus, I can gladly say that the source dragon scene made me feel like when I was little playing in the yard with wooden swords pretending I was Kai XD, I respect the work you do on the channel too bro, keep doing it!

Season 3 of dragons rising is set up so well, we have the problem of evil jay, Arin leaving with Ras, and the forbidden five being loose, along with the mystery of Ras’ master and how Wu caused the merge. They have sooooo much stuff they can do and really make a great story for this season.

The part I think makes DR great is how they wrote the og cast. They near perfectly balanced the childish nature of the characters with all the development they technically got throughout the show, but would forget to display (sometimes for numerous seasons). Kai still feels like he’s the hot head ninja we know, but does his best at trying to be mature when needed. Lloyd is similar, but I also like how impatient he is with training the new cast. Lloyd mentally is around their age and while has had more experience (more mentally mature), he is still technically a kid. And it shows. He initially lacked not just the patience, but also effort and commitment required to actually train people (especially those that don’t want to).

Biggest flex is that season 2 comes out on my birthday🙏🙏

Words can never describe how peak this feedback of dragons rising is. Shit is the most informative review ever and goes into every detail of flaws which dragons rising fixed with ninjago. I agree with many, if not every, point you made about the season.

Cole and lloyd wear amazing in dragons rising season 1

We're back indeed Ninjagos back and also new people are also coming in like since ds started almost 8 of my friends got back into Ninjago

I was 7 when the oni trilogy came out and I remember watching the episode where Lloyd discovers harumi is the quiet one on holiday at my aunts house and I remember thinking: "wow, this is fire" and then when I left I never saw it again. fast forward another 4 years and I saw ninjago on netflix and binged the whole thing, it was amazing and the oni trilogy was my favourite. now I'm 13 witnessing the amazing continuation that is ninjago dragons rising

They made an amazing character, Ras. I love this guy.

That’s what I love about Ninjago. It’s been going on for so long, there are periods where it isn’t really good. But you can always trust the show to bounce back somehow

Coming from someone who enjoyed Crystalized a lot, I think this is one of the best seasons of Ninjago. Definitely better than the Oni trilogy, which I consider overated anyway. And I view the season as better than the whole wildbrain era by far. I think the 22 minute runtime really does wonders for Ninjago episodes, and I'm also excited because the current showrunner said that Dragons Rising will do what Ninjago hasn't done ever, and have the whole series be more serialized throughout. Yes, Ninjago will never have the same charm as it did before s8 (which I think did more bad than good for the story, even though it was decent by itself). However, it has a new kind of charm, something different from the feeling of the past seasons. And I think Dragons Rising is closer to what i grew up with for Ninjago than the entire Oni trilogy and the wildbrain era. And for that, I am grateful that Dragons Rising put rhe show to a place it hasn't been since season 6.

Honestly, I had lost the love I had for Ninjago years ago. Well, not really lost, more so buried it, I think I stopped watching after some of the oni triology(Mainly because I didn't know there were more seasons lol). And I had originally planned to watch Dragons Rising when I saw it advertised, but seeing the new characters alone, I thought they were completely replacing the old ninja and didn't give it a watch. It wasn't until I saw it on a twitter post I decided to check it out. I kinda hate myself for watching it because now Im obsessed with the show again. My tiktok is filled with Ninjago and I LOVE IT. Im so glad they came out with this season. Because I watched Crystalized, and as much as I liked it(I didn't love it, but I did like it), I'm so glad we got this so I wasn't left with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Since all the 16 realms are merged now, I wonder if we'll see some old Chima characters later on down the line.

Yes! I have just felt like the show went boring after the oni trilogy, which was the peak in my opinion, but dragons rising really fit my expectations!

I have a theory that Arin is the reincarnation of the first spinjitsu master seeing as how he knows how to do a form of spinjitsu without training and that he can project it onto objects. Also his suit has oni horns that are golden which could symbolize the fsm having oni and dragon blood. (golden color of horns)

I just love the post-apocalyptic wasteland aesthetic that the merge brought about.

Hello Crusty, since this is a video about Dragons Rising even though this a positive video obviously, can I add something? Am I the only one who thought Lloyd was dumb in episode 15 trying to save Rapton? He’s lucky that somehow only his duo protected their dragon core while nya and Sora, and Kai and wyldfire failed. I guess it worked out in the end since Rapton actually helped give access to the station in the end. Also I do like how life finally made it easy for Lloyd a little bit in how getting the actual dragon core when they arrived by just asking, unlike nya where they had to try find a replacement for it and Kai dealing with annoying rock creatures.

I really like that everything lasts longer now. Villains are villains in following seasons, rather than being either gone after just one season, or coming back years later. Arin is still looking for his parents. Jay still can't remember the past. Jordana is still the best character. They don't start with a new thing and stop as soon as the season is over. It just makes everything seem more impactful.

Who else here is hoping that the Merge had reached all the way to the Never-Realm

I already watched all the first few episodes of it and now I’m waiting for more

The last season of ninjago is when zyane fell in love with pixle. That was cute! I couldn't get into the next so many seasons.

Ninjago Dragons Rising Season 1 Was Super Awesome, Amazing and Fantastic I Loved It So Much The Ninja Were Awesome The Villains were Amazing and The Next Generation Of Elemental Ninja Master were Awesome and Epic I Give Season 1 of Ninjago Dragons Rising Sequel Series A 10/10 I’m Very Excited For Season 2 of Ninjago Dragons Rising Coming Out Next Year 2024🔥😎 “We Are All Dragons”

i started watching since the beggining. i feel for him

you sound happy I'm happy

Really good review and dragon rising for me me was very fun to watch and is really good

Honestly, while I do enjoy the season, I can’t really give it anything above an 8/10 for one simple reason; The characterization. Yes, Kai is done well, Lloyd is finally getting a good arc, Sora and Arin are good too, but one thing that has been notably lacking in this season (and also every wildbrain season, honestly) is defined personalities. Every single character feels like they’re in a competition for who can make the most quirky and/or meta jokes per scene, and it lowers the enjoyment quality quite a decent amount for me. Back in S1-S10, the serious moments were allowed to be mostly serious, and the jokes made were made by characters who were fit to make them at the right time. Now, take DR, you got serious moments that should be only serious, but aren’t, and jokes being thrown around by literally everyone in the main cast at any time. Take for example, the Kai scene where he is discussing to Wyldfire how Wu taught him some excercizes to cope with the death of his sister (who may I remind you, is the person he spent his childhood and early teenage years protecting because his parents were kidnapped by a guy with a sword). It should be quite serious, but he just says this stuff so casually, and it feels so out of place. Don’t get me wrong, the scene is good in some ways, but I just can’t really appreciate it as much as I could’ve with its tone. Then, on top of that, in general, instead of the Ninja acting like a found family who all have distinct personalities like mentioned above, they now feel like a wacky group of childish friends, and that just does not work Kai is an ex-hothead Lloyd is …Lloyd I guess Zane is the smart one who also happens to be a robot Jay is also a smart one who is also the comedy relief Cole is the one who has the perfect leader mentality Nya is a female who made a name for herself within the group, who has a distinct personality of being semi-hotheaded at times but also carries traits from the other ninja Arin is …underdeveloped so I can’t say much on him Sora is a girl who is empathic towards other living things and doesn’t want to harm anyone Wyldifre is the annoying person of the group These people are not able to be clumped into the stereotypical basic wacky group of children trope, the personalities literally aren’t compatible for that, yet the writers try to make it fit. This is the thing I want fixed the most out of anything in the series right now (can you tell? I wrote a TED talk basically lmao), so hopefully in Season 2 it’s done better.

For me, Dragons Rising S1 is the second-best season. Amazing character focus, arcs, development. Intriguing concept and atmosphere. Complex plots, entertaining dynamics and cool villains. Only surpassed by Crystalized.

i love rapton character bro finally somebody that agrees with me love your content bro❤❤

If Crystalized was gonna be the last season all together, then more of the original plans would’ve been put into place. Let me just say, we’ve had 11 minute episodes for the past 4 years and we completely forgot what 22 minutes was like. Especially because they made 20 22 minute episodes for this season, which is incredible. The oni trilogy had amazing visuals and such. Wild brain brought the fights to a whole new level. Wild brain for DR is like, combining both. Which is insane.. The merge was a great concept and I’m glad they’re sticking with it. Sora & Arin are fantastic new characters, Lloyd is actually… Wow, the complete opposite of Crystalized. I know source dragons exist, but I wonder if the merge has to do with the destruction of the oni temple. If we look at everything with the balance, you start to wonder. Plus, every other realm merged with the realm of Ninjago.. The show is, extremely well written for targeting younger audience. I will say tho, a certain audience gets forgotten about when you have writing, visuals etc, this good

I love how impactful they make Wu feel in it

That's great news regarding Lloyd! He's always been my fav ninja and I was worried what they'd do to him in Dragons Rising

I'm glad you like Dragons rising Crusty :3

I love the new seasons as well, but i'm still waiting for a Zane upgrade!!!!!! Like Zane has been dumbed down to acting "just like a robot" ( he doesnt even really try to search for pixal anymore ), and every single fight with Zane in it ends with him either dying (long or short term) or being deactivated :/ They fixed Kai; now justice for Zane !!

to be honest its hard to mess up a new start

Before i watched DR season two, i was upset we didn't get a five second clip of jay looking at a map, revealing he was secretly looking for nya whilst at the organization.

I loved the season too! But from what I am seeing, people are a little divisive on it, not as much as some other seasons but still. I would like to know the reason someday.

Dragons Rising animation is so good!! I love it so much

The one thing that the Merge did to the story was finding a way for the Ninja to travel to different realms without the use of the Realm crystal OR traveler's tea, which gives them a huge amount of future storylines to explore.

14:55 THE WAY HE TALKS ABOUT WILDFIRE HAS ME DYING

Ok doubt youll see this. But id really like for them to return zane to his original form. You know the version of him that could be mistaken for a human

Jay being evil is like so entertaining every time I see him on screen I get so happy! Also making it harder to get the band back together is making me so f- happy. Its kinda funny that Jor- jor jor dia jordia! Tries so hard to be Sora that her hair looks alot like Soras pink.

I think if they added harmi it would be a hit and a big twist

Me: *Sees the title of the video* Also me: Are you sure about that?

New ninja go I hope Lloyd will use more of his oni form that would be sick

Hearing you being happy makes me happy lol

Weird question: do you think I could jump into Dragons Rising or would it be worth it to catch up first? Context: I used to be the biggest Ninjago fan in late elementary/middle school (must’ve watched the penultimate episode of S2 dozens of times in the week leading up to the finale, pivotal moment of my childhood), but fell off halfway into Skybound. I’m a recent college graduate now but I’ve been thinking of checking it out again. Do you think it would be worth it to watch from Skybound up to DR, or is DR somewhat of a reboot you could start at? I’ve heard good things about the Oni Trilogy, so I might check that out too.

Wait, do you like Crystalized a bit more now that you feel Dragons Rising fixed a lot of things?

Man, I really miss the old Lego Ninjago. It’s just amazing.

Hope s2 as Jillian Michael young Lloyd

Rapton is so funny in DR

I agree with a ton of the points in this vid, but I still love crystalized. Great video!

A decision I like about this Dragon Rising is how they callback previous seasons, like Sky Kingdom episode and Djinjago. Previous seasons from 11 min era often move forward without looking back, as if previous seasons never exist. Thus, lessen the impact. They also refering and fixing some of on-going complaint in the fandom, like Destiny writer plot hole.

I think DR was a solid start, my only problem is that I cant enjoy it because of how bad and unsatisfying Crystalized was as an end to the old show. I feel like we are just missing something. The other thing found annoying is how Tech seems to stay a girl thing in ninjago. First Nya, then Pixal, now Sora, her rival, Dr Laroe,… its so repetitive. Beatrix was a pretty forgettable and annoying at times, but Ras, Rapton and Dorama were fun. Ninja were really good, excited to see more of Jay and Cole. Good first season overall, but from the recent years MotM and Seabound are still better.

I wonder if Akita will be in dragon rising

I love the concept of a new world and all but I absolutely hate the execution and how they say the merge was inevitable. The ninja fought and fought to keep Ninjago safe, but in the end they lost due to no fault of their own. It’s essentially invalidates everything they had done because the merge would have happened even if they had lost to the overlord, even if the oni took over all of Ninjago, if the ninja stayed disbanded, if Nya never came back, if Garmadon didn’t change. Nothing of it mattered because the merge was inevitable. I just wish they had an actual enemy to have tried to stop, a rouge oni that returned to do something with what’s left of the realm crystal and cause the merge or something. It just doesn’t feel right for them to have lost without ever putting up a fight, it goes against the lessons they have taught throughout the entire series. And don’t even get me started on the implications that Wu died to this of all things after surviving so much…

Wildfire is such an excellent character and describes me well..

I seriously love LOVE rising dragon❤❤❤❤ the master sense lloyd, sora and arina. And the source dragonss❤❤❤ I am sooo excited for season 2❤❤❤

I'm so glad about the villain situation in Dragons Rising. It feels so nice to have something totally new for the conflict in Ninjago. I was just really sick of how they used some of the same villains over and over again in past seasons, like Garmadon and the Overlord. The one thing that also made me dislike Crystallized is that I finally thought we could get a new, cool themed villain, but it HAD to be the Overlord the entire time 😒 I also hated how Harumi wasn't actually dead, since that was a pretty good way for her to go back then. And we didn't really need her in Crystallized tbh. Overall I really like that everything has a new touch to it; the protagonists, antagonists, and literally their world itself!

I haven’t caught up with Ninjago in a long time. What do I need to watch to catch up?

3:53 I like insanly good light quality. I would take Wilfilms animations.

YESSIR DR IS AMAZING. SO ENTERTAINING. IT JUST FELT SO FRESH AND NEW. THE SCENERY AND CHARACTERS AND EVERYTHING ARE SO GOOD. AND SORA IS THE GOAT CHARACTER HER STORY WITH HER PARENTS ALMOST MADE ME CRY. AND IT HAD ME IN IT THE BEST CHARACTER IN NINJAGO🔥🔥🔥

I only clicked to watch crusty burst into tears because crystalised wasnt good enough in his opinion