Controller player here. It's quite easy to fumble the controller when playing Ninja for example and end up moving the manual target circle instead of doing what you were trying to do in the moment. Then have to go about trying to get it back where it was, and you need to be in a flat-ground area to avoid it being off to the left or right. Unless there is a lock option already that stops you from moving the manual target circle...

(With controller, the circle appears in the same spot as last time from when you used it for anything, and you tilt the camera stick to get the circle where you want it).