A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof (忍者と殺し屋のふたりぐらし) is a 12 episode comedy series based on the manga of the same name by HundredBurger. The series originally aired during the Spring of 2025.
Satoko is a failure of a ninja. When she becomes entangled in a plot by her superior to run away from the authority of their ninja village, she finds herself starving, alone and being hunted in a city shes not familiar with. Her fate changes when a ninja sent to kill her is killed by a serious girl who she quickly learns is an assassin. The professional killer, Konoha, decides not to kill the helpless ninja when she learns her only ability is instantly converting inanimate matter into leaves. She see's this as a sure fire way for her to improve her ranking in the assassin world. She is a highly skilled killer but gets bad reviews from her customers based on the messiness of the aftermath. If this ninja can be convinced to clean up all of her messes the bad reviews should go away. With that, Satoko, who knows nothing of the world outside of her closed off village, moves into the small apartment of a cold blooded paid killer.
The ninja village continues to send their own assassins after Satoko and her superior, Kuro. Satoko is less than useless when it comes to combat let alone survival and Konoha has to intervene during each attack. Kuro, who has thrown away her ninja ways, is trying to live a normal wife with a woman she started dating and living with. Unfortunately she has become addicted to pachinko and is more of a freeloader than Satoko is. Kuro, feeling responsible, does try to help her underling become more self sufficient but in the end remaining in contact with her only brings more trouble. In their time together a strange relationship blossoms between the lost ninja and the calculating assassin. Neither of them are certain if its love or not. Konoha's cold, dismissive and largely abusive attitude towards her freeloader acts as a road block to any break through.
This is a really weird and hectic comedy..that turns into a yuri pretty quickly. But its a mundane almost not yuri yuri. If I recall correctly...there are essentially no male characters in the entire run of the anime, everyone is female. Most of them, if there is any notion of anything romantic, is gay. A strong point of the story is how nonchalant the fight scenes are handled. This isn't a battle anime and theres very little of anything shown. Usually Konoha one shot kills and the next thing we know theres a pile of leaves in existence. So if your looking for people sparing for episodes on end, shouting out special moves...this will be sorely disappointing. If your looking for a quirky comedy that runs the line of a yuri romance, this might just trip your trigger.
A strong point with the anime is the artwork and the sequencing of events. The characters are bold, simply drawn but very expressive. A lot of the comedy comes from their reactions and the timing of scene jumps. But...there's a lot of innocent fan service making one wonder, who exactly is the audience for this show? Its for otaku, otaku who love cute girls doing weird things. I suspect its a cross over between those who drool over girls with guns stories and iyashikei featuring girls doing normal fun things. In the end I enjoyed the comedy and the main characters were a lot of fun. The personality and design traits of some of the side characters were not to my liking and in the end...the story really doesn't do anything. But, who said something has to happen to be enjoyable. I wouldn't mind a second season but I don't think I can be bothered to read the manga.
The series is available on Crunchyroll.
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