“Salaryman becomes possessed ninja assassin, hunting resurrected evil ninjas in cyberpunk Neo-Saitama for vengeance.”
Ninja Slayer Kills
ニンジャスレイヤー殺〈キルズ〉
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Synopsis
Salaryman becomes possessed ninja assassin, hunting resurrected evil ninjas in cyberpunk Neo-Saitama for vengeance.
Ninja... Ninja were... merciless demi-gods, ruling Japan with their karate in the age of ninja tranquility. But, "some" committed a forbidden form of hara-kiri storing their souls at Kinkaku Temple for future resurrection. Their lost history was falsified and concealed and the truth about these ninja was long forgotten. Now, in the future where the universalization of cybernetic technology and electronic networks are God, suddenly, sinister ninja souls, resurrected from thousands of years past are unleashed on the dark shadows of Neo-Saitama. Fujikido Kenji, is a salaryman whose wife and child were killed in a ninja turf war. In a brush with his own death, Fujikido is possessed by an enigmatic ninja soul. Fujikido cheats death and becomes Ninja Slayer. A Grim Reaper destined to kill evil ninja, committed to a personal war of vengeance. Set in the dystopian underworld of Neo-Saitama, Ninja Slayer takes on Soukai Syndicate ninjas in mortal combat. (Source: Tokyo Otaku Mode)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
2.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 6.0
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Dec 2018 → Mar 2025
- 7 “I haven't read the novel or the other manga. I bought this in my bookstore, because it looked cool and a had nothing else to read. The manga looked like it was there for sometime and the minute I...”
- 9 “Ninja Slayer has the most insane real world backstory of all time! In the 90s, two American OG weebs, inspired by bad dubs of 80s and 90s cheesy Japanese media like Gundam, Japanese B movies and...”
- 6 “tl;dr: A messy and generic cyberpunk ninja manga. This is the manga adaptation of a novel series about a ninja’s fight against a criminal organization in a cyberpunk version of Japan. The manga...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 29 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 52m approx
- Published Jan 2014 – Dec 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M33773 catalog