Under Ninja live-action film announced

Weekly Young Magazine revealed in its latest issue that a live-action film adaptation of the manga is in production Under Ninjawritten and illustrated by Kengo Hanazawa.

An anime series adaptation premiered in October 2023. The animation is the responsibility of Tezuka Productions (Adachi to Shimamura, Kanojo mo Kanojo), the direction is Satoshi Kuwabara (Black Jack), the script is by Keiichiro Ochi (The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten) and the character design is by Noboteru Yuki (The Vision of Escaflowne, Kids on the Slope).

Under Ninja began to be published in Weekly Young Magazine in July 2018.

Synopsis of Under Ninja

Even today, ninjas walk among us, hiding in plain sight and still awaiting orders for their missions. However, some find it much more difficult to take orders than others! Meet Kumogakure Kuroh, a NEET and a Ninja, a strange mix, don’t you think? After not working for a long time, he finally receives orders from his superiors! Could I finally keep all those years of training working properly?

Kengo Hanazawa is perhaps best known for works such as Boys on the Run, Resentment, Takaga Tasogare It is Tokkaten. However, his most popular work is I Am a Herowhich was nominated for the third, fourth and fifth editions of Taisho Awards (2010, 2011 and 2012), also being the winner of the fifty-eighth edition of the Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2013, in the “General Manga” category.