![]() Ayame Sarutobi from Gintama wears a purple scarf and a predominantly white outfit.Right in front of the Big Bad's fortress (on purpose, because they figured the enemy knew they were coming and wanted to make a statement). They are also as Hot-Blooded as someone can be, and start the final battle by throwing fireworks. Flame of Recca's main characters are supposed to be ninjas.Natsu proves he hasnt learned anything when he does this again at one point in the final arc. Natsu and Happy tell Lucy they will become ninjas, but their idea of ninjas is to simply wrap scarves around their faces and make stereotypical ninja poses, making no attempts to be quiet or stay out of sight. In an early arc of Fairy Tail, the group needs to infiltrate Duke Everlue's mansion.who's enormous and coloured bright yellow. Similarly, there's Tuwarmon, a combat-oriented ninja Digimon. The Monitamon are recon experts, but with heads consisting of enormous CRT televisions you have to wonder how. Digimon Fusion seems to have a thing for ninja characters, all of whom are highly visible.She says an SP - a Japanese VIP bodyguard. When her Ninja-ness is brought up, she specifically denies it. Sayoko in Code Geass, whose ninja outfit is pink, white and has a flowing scarf.She also has no shortage of tools for hampering her foes' sight anyways, such as flashlights or hot sauce. According to her, she does it because her preferred tactic is getting her enemies' attention, which means they're less likely to notice her allies sneaking up behind them. Lampshaded and justified in A Certain Magical Index with the side-character Shuri Oumi, who wears a lot of pink in her outfit.Poor Ana has the worst of it as it has to be tough to be a blonde, blue-eyed Russian-born infiltrator in 16th century Japan. In Brave10, the background characters all look, act and dress period appropriately, but the main cast are loud, eccentric, misbehaving, badly and anachronistically dressed ninjas, simply because they are the protagonists.As a giant stinger missile that heavily disrupts her speed and is too enormous to be hidden, she can't engage in covert fighting at all with it. Her status as an example of this trope is accentuated when her bankai is revealed. Unsurprising, Aizen isn't bothered by her attack and it fails. She then proceeds to engage in one of the flashiest speed-clone attacks we've ever seen her produce. Lampshaded by Aizen who calls her mad for confronting him face-to-face instead of adhering to her training and striking covertly. However, she likes to have her abilities acknowledged and this leads her to take on face-to-face confrontations even when she should strike from the shadows. ![]() Bleach: Sui Feng has the skills to be a good ninja.He also has a knack for making long, drawn out speeches before a fight (so drawn out his allies don't even wait for him to finish and attack their opponent before he's done) and later in the story he gains a bunch of overpowered light based abilities. Not only is he a 7'7, 320lbs man, but he also throws shurikens the size of an aircraft tire and wields Murasame, a legendary 2-metre-long katana. Ninja Master Gara from Bastard!! (1988). ![]() ![]() Ninja Ninja in Afro Samurai is loud-mouthed and ridiculously visible (although he's somewhat stealthy in the second episode, hiding in the rafters of a house), especially considering that he's hanging out with a samurai who kills everyone he meets.Heroic (and technicolor) ninja are smart enough to avert this, while villainous ones are still needed to entertain the viewers. Not only is this not honorable, it's not as exciting as a full fledged fight. Assassins traditionally killed people through underhanded methods - stabbing In the Back, poisoning, etc. There's also this funny paradox: ninja are assassins. ![]() The real reason is the works need to make sure the audience sees the ninja. While suffering from the law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, Ninja mooks not only forget how to fight properly and how to take advantage of their superior numbers, they also forget what a ninja truly is.īack at the dojo, didn't their sensei explain that the whole point is to be stealthy, secretive, even invisible? Why do they suddenly feel the need to appear in broad daylight, dressed in stereotyped kabuki-theater stagehand costumes, yell " Kiai!" as loudly as possible, and perform gymnastics and twirl their weapons like they're putting on a show? Even worse, they feel the need to do these things from a distance of about fifty meters, even when they know the enemy have guns ( though this isn't always a problem). The result of Mook Chivalry when applied to Ninja. ![]()
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