The manga also takes inspiration from the 2023 anime
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This year's 18th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine revealed on Monday that Kengo Hanazawa's Under Ninja manga will be adapted into a live-action film. The announcement introduces the cast and staff of the upcoming film as “ninja's top secret”.
Manga publisher Denpa is releasing the manga in English and describes the series:
A lonely high school student is given the role of a modern-day ninja tasked with carrying out international assassinations.
After World War II, the Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence in the Pacific region. This agency has ninjas and they are initially tasked with handling internal affairs. Eventually, that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninjas on a variety of domestic and international assignments. One of those ninjas is Kuro. The loser seventeen-year-old high school student is now ready to become the next line of defense against a potential surge of foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
Hanazawa (I am a Hero) launched the ongoing manga in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in July 2018.
The manga was adapted into a television anime, which premiered on October 5. The anime stars Taito Ban as Kurō Kumogakure and Tarusuke Shingaki as Katō.
Source: Weekly Young magazine issue 18
