List of ninja anime and manga

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The following is a list of anime and manga titles where at least one ninja character appears as a significant plot element.

Contents 1 Major roles 2 Minor roles 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Major roles

• Afro Samurai
• Ai Kora: The main character Kirino Ootori and the support characters Ai Hagidzuka and Kunoichi Awayuki.
• Akame - The Red Eyes^[1]
• Angel Blade: A hentai (adult) OAV series.
• Azumi
• Band of Ninja (Ninja Bugeicho): An early manga series later adapted into a movie.
• Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls (Basilisk Kōga Ninpō Chō): Manga and anime series based on The Kouga Ninja Scrolls; all of the many main characters are ninja from two rival clans during the rule of Tokugawa shogunate.
• Bastard‼
• Black Lion (Kuro no Shishi)
• Bleach: Popular manga and anime series featuring the characters of Yoruichi Shihouin and Soifon, both commanders of the special forces.
• Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (Yoma): Short drama/mythology OAV series set in the feudal Japan.
• Brave10
• Chōdenji Machine Voltes V: The character of Megumi Oka is the only female member of the Voltes V Team.
• The Dagger of Kamui (Kamui no Ken)
• Dear School Gang Leader: Hirayama Hayaka, the gang leader for her school, gains a ninja bodyguard after a trip to the mountains.
• Dirty Pair: The main characters Kei and Yuri are ninja girls in the off-shot radio show "Daatipea91: Kunoichi".
• Dobutsuki Seton
• Erotic Torture Chamber
• Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle: Two anime movies based on the series of video games.
• Flame of Recca (Rekka no Honō): The series about Recca Hanabishi and his rival half-brother Kurei, who came from the Hokage ninja clan which perished during the time of Oda Nobunaga. Also features several other ninja characters.
• Fūma no Kojirō
• Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger
• Gin Tama
• Gundam (primarily Musha Gundam universe): Many characters in the different Gundam series, including several Super Deformed Gundam series, are ninja. Among them is Kyoji Kasshu (Mobile Fighter G Gundam).
• Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami
• Haō Taikei Ryū Knight
• Himawari!: A comedy TV series about a ninja school.
• Hininden Gausu: A H-anime set in medieval Japan and featuring several ninja women.
• Hyakka Ryōran Samurai Girls
• I Am Sarutobi! (Ore wa Sarutobi da!)
• Igano Kabamaru
• Inuyasha: Featuring several ninja characters.
• Jubei-chan: The Ninja Girl (Jūbei-chan): A mostly comedic manga and two TV series in the modern setting.
• Kage Kara Mamoru!
• Kagetora
• Kamen no Maid Guy: The ninja maids Shizuku & Tsurara.
• Kamui the Ninja (Ninpu Kamui Gaiden)
• Karakuri Ninja Girl
• Karasu Tengu Kabuto: A manga series later adapted into the anime series and an OVA film.
• Kaze ga Gotoku
• Kaze no Ishimaru
• Kozou Ookami
• Ken'ichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Ken'ichi): Kunoichi Shigure Kousaka.
• Kōtarō Makaritōru!
• Kunoichi Mahouden
• La Blue Girl (Injû Gakuen): Several ninja-themed hentai manga and OAV series.
• Labyrinth of Flames (Honoo no Labyrinth)
• Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Anime Ganbare Goemon)
• Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Ōkami): A samurai saga in the Edo period of Japan.
• Lupin III: Animated TV and movie series that features several ninja characters in the modern setting, including Goemon Ishikawa XIII (the 13th descendant of the historical Goemon).
• Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto
• Masked Ninja Red Shadow (Kamen no Ninja Aka-Kage)
• Millenium Actress
• Mirmo! (Wagamama Fearī Mirumo de Pon!)
• Musashi Gundoh
• Nabari no Ou
• Nagasarete Airantō
• Naruto: A hit manga and anime series that takes place in a fictional world, but draws upon ninja and other elements of ancient Japan. It achieved enormous international popularity in the 2000s and also spawned many video games.
• Ninja Cadets (Ninja Mono): Short comedy-action OAV series.
• Ninja Girls (Rappai Ranga)
• Ninja Hattori-kun
• Ninja Nonsense (Ninin Ga Shinobuden): Comedy manga and anime TV series.
• Ninja Resurrection (Makai Tenshō: Jigoku-hen): Short OAV series.
• Ninja Senpuu
• Ninja Robot Tobikage (Ninja Senshi Tobikage)
• Ninja Ryukenden, an OVA film based on the original Ninja Gaiden video game series.
• Ninja Scroll (Jūbei Ninpūchō): A movie and a TV series loosely based on the works of Futaro Yamada.
• Ninpou Hiwa
• Ninja, the Wonder Boy (Manga Sarutobi Sasuke): Also the movie version, Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke.
• Rantaro the Ninja Boy (Nintama Rantarō): An anime series for young children about the adventures of Rantarou and his friends and teachers at a ninja school.
• Path of the Assassin (Hanzo no Mon): Story of the life of Hattori Hanzo, the famous historical ninja in the service of the shogunate.
• Rakudai Ninja Rantarō
• Rurouni Kenshin: The manga and TV series features the Oniwabanshu group (including Shinomori Aoshi and Makimachi Misao) and others. There are also several episodical ninja characters in the OAV series.
• Sailor Victory: A comedy OAV series about a team of policewomen using ninja mecha (giant robots).
• Samurai Deeper Kyo
• Samurai Legend (Kaze no Sho)
• Samurai Pizza Cats (Kyattou Ninden Teyandē): The title characters were originally in fact not samurai but ninja (in the Japanese release), and they often face off against ninja enemies.
• Samurai Spirits
• Samurai XXX (Yoka no Ken)
• Sarutobi Sasuke
• Sasuke
• Sasuga no Sarutobi: A comedy manga by Fujihiko Hosono and a 69-episodes TV series about a modern high school for ninja.
• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman): Five young International Science Organization operators, dressed in bird-like suits, are trained in the ninja arts.
• Shadow (Hyper Shinobi Animation: Shadow)
• Shinobu Kokoro: Hidden Heart
• Short-Tempered Melancholic (Kanshakudama no Yuutsu)
• Soar High! Isami
• Shadow Hunters (Kage Gari)
• Shinobi Life
• Shōnen Jiraiya
• Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru
• Soul Eater: Black Star and Tsubaki.
• Sgt. Frog (Sergeant Keroro): Two of the main characters, Dororo and Koyuki, are both skilled in various forms of ninjutsu (also in Keroro Land).
• Sword for Truth (Shuranosuke Zanmaken: Shikamamon no Otoko)
• Tail of the Moon (Tsuki no Shippo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend of the Supermutants
• The King of Braves GaoGaiGar (Yūsha Ō GaoGaiGā): The ninja stealth robot Volfogg.
• The King of Fighters: Another Day: Short original net animation series bases on the video game series.
• The Last Kunoichi (Kunoichi Bakumatsu Kitan): An action H-anime. Several kunoichi are caught by the struggles of the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• The Legend of Kamui: Largely realistic and historically accurate manga series based on Kamui novels.
• The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls (Y+M)
• Tower of Etruria
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle: The character of Kurogane.
• Watari
• Yoshimune
• Yōtōden: Three members of otherwise destroyed ninja clans confront the demonic ruler Oda Nobunaga and his minions. While fantasy in nature, the series is based around the historical events.
• Zanpei Kumotori^[2]

Minor roles

• A-N: Axis Powers Hetalia, Blade of the Immortal (featuring several ninja-like characters; ninja tactics are also repeatedly referenced by Rin), Blade of the Phantom Master, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Bottle Fairy, Code Geass (Sayoko Shinozaki), Cutey Honey, Dinosaur King, Dragon Ball (several minor characters are ninjas), F-Zero: GP Legend, Getter Robo, Gin Tama, Ginga Legend Weed, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, Hero Tales, Hyper Police (Kasumi,^[3] the original love of Sakunoshin^[4]), King Arthur, Kinnikuman (features the character called The Ninja), Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (several guest characters in the episode "Visiting Ninja, Benikage!", better known in the USA as "Ninja Binge"), Kurozuka, Machine Robo: Battle Hackers, Magical Princess Minky Momo, , Mega Man Star Force, Metal Fighter Miku (the episode "Pretty Four vs The Lady Ninja"), Miami Guns, Midori Days, My-HiME and My-Otome (the character of Akira Okuzaki), Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (schoolgirl Kaede Nagase).

• O-Z: Oh My Goddess! (a mini-arc of both the main manga series and the spin-off anime The Adventures of Mini-Goddess), Outlaw Star, Planetes, Pokémon, PQ Angels, Ranma 1/2, Saber Marionette, Sailor Moon (the villain of the week Ninjana - Oniwabandana in the Japanese version^[5] - in the episode 38/43), Sakura Wars, Samurai Champloo (the episodes "Bogus Booty" and "Baseball Blues" both deal with characters who are ninja or former ninja), Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School, Skull Man, Sonic X (featuring the robot ninja E-91 Lady Ninja^[6] from E-Series; the ninja Espio the Chameleon^[7] is also a minor character), Sorcerer Hunters, Those Who Hunt Elves, Transformers: The Headmasters (the Transformers Sixshot), Ultraman (features the space alien ninjas called Alien Baltan), Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito, Yakitate! Japan, YuYu Hakusho (the Shadow Channelers - Team Masho in the anime - are referred to as the shinobi of the demon world).

See also

• List of ninja films
• List of ninja video games
• Ninja in popular culture

References

External links

• Ninja Anime | Anime-Planet