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“Ordinary cook Shuuji inherits a legendary ninja sword, gaining Botan—a clumsy ninja girl—as his protector against rival assassins.”
Ninkoi: Kakurenbo Hichou
にんこい～隠恋慕秘帖～
6.52
17,616 rank · 4,123 readers · 8 favorites
Seinen
Harem
School
Comedy
Romance
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Ordinary cook Shuuji inherits a legendary ninja sword, gaining Botan—a clumsy ninja girl—as his protector against rival assassins.
Mikado Shuuji is just an ordinary guy, but he has a very unusual knife that he uses for cooking. It's actually a famous short sword that marks its owner as the head of the ninjas, and now there are hot ninja girls coming after him to take it back. Hinamori Botan is one of those hot ninja girls, but her efforts to attack Shuuji mostly end up inadvertently stripping her. After she concludes that she does not want to steal the sword and kill Shuuji, she ends up deciding to serve him as a ninja instead. Now she must protect him from the other ninja that come to claim his sword and his life! (Source: MangaHelpers)
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7.5
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100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “It's a decent, short Harem Manga. The MC finds a Knife that makes him leader of all ninjas and random Girls come for him to retrive it. They all get naked for one reason or the other, hilarity...”
- 8 “tl;dr: A manga that has less depth than a sheet of paper but still manages to be reasonably enjoyable. To be clear from the outset, the plot of this manga is incredibly weak and also very clearly...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 18 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 24m approx
- Published Feb 2014 – Jun 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M30492 catalog