A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
忍者と殺し屋のふたりぐらし (Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi)
- Comedy
- CGDCT
- Mecha
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Apr 10, 2025 to Jun 26, 2025
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Konoha Koga looks like an ordinary high schooler living on her own—until you learn she secretly takes on assassin work after class. Her quiet routine shifts when she crosses paths with Satoko Kusagukare, a runaway ninja being pursued by former comrades after leaving her village behind.
After Konoha eliminates one of Satoko’s pursuers, Satoko reveals an unusual talent for disposing of bodies and erasing evidence. Recognizing how useful that skill could be, Konoha proposes a straightforward arrangement: Satoko gets a place to stay, and in return she handles the cleanup from Konoha’s jobs. Sharing a home—and a surprisingly compatible partnership—the two settle into an offbeat daily life shaped by domestic moments and neatly coordinated “work” together.
Otaku Consensus
Shaft’s A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof lands as a sharp, oddball return to non-sequel TV output: Yukihiro Miyamoto’s direction, deadpan gag pacing, and animation that strengthens across the run make its cute-girl black comedy feel more curated than its modest popularity suggests. The strongest notices singled out an early episode as a season-highlight-level showcase, while the most consistent criticism is that the series’ nastier comic edge gradually softens into broader wacky antics. It is respected as a flavorful dark-comedy curio rather than embraced as a new Shaft phenomenon.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want cute-girl roommate comedy with punchlines that keep stepping over the chalk outline, not another low-stakes clubroom hangout. Shaft’s 2025 production packages the series like a bright urban gag anime, then lets the humor come from deadpan procedure, sudden slapstick, and the mismatch between cozy rhythms and lethal subject matter. It scratches the Nichijou itch for absurd escalation and the Hidamari Sketch itch for character-centric Shaft timing, but with black-comedy teeth and a faint yuri charge. The best fit is a viewer who likes tonal friction: robots and AI gags sitting beside ninja and assassin bits, cute designs carrying morally grim jokes, and a 12-episode run that moves quickly without franchise homework. If you need the darkness to stay razor-sharp every week, the back half’s goofier drift may frustrate you.
Key Characters
- KKonoha Koga(VA: Kana Hanazawa)
Konoha’s appeal is in her clinical deadpan, giving Kana Hanazawa room to play the comedy as businesslike understatement rather than exaggerated chaos.
- SSatoko Kusagakure(VA: Haruna Mikawa)
Satoko brings the series its strangest tonal balance, turning grim practical skills and fugitive anxiety into a cute-girl comedy rhythm without sanding off the absurdity.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
This is a Shaft production directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto, with the studio’s gag timing applied to black comedy rather than a conventional school-club format.
- 2
AniList’s tag profile is unusually specific for a comedy: Female Protagonist at 100%, Primarily Female Cast at 97%, Assassins and Ninja at 96%, Slapstick at 96%, and Surreal Comedy at 86%.
- 3
The show carries a strange genre signature beyond its domestic-comedy surface, with the research data listing CGDCT and Mecha as themes and AniList tagging Robots at 64% and Artificial Intelligence at 60%.
- 4
Review discussion repeatedly noted the visual trajectory: the animation starts as merely decent, then becomes stronger as the series advances, with the art receiving praise for solid construction and cool-looking set pieces.
- 5
One early episode was singled out by a reviewer as the best episode they had seen among their current seasonal anime, compared in impact to the To a Kinder World and Acro Silky episode-7 benchmark.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The original creator is credited as Hamburger, with series composition by Fuyashi Tou and character designs by Kazuya Shiotsuki.
- Fun fact 2
- Web discussion framed the anime as Shaft’s first non-sequel anime in many years, noting surprise that the studio name did not boost attention the way City did.
- Fun fact 3
- The series completed a clean 12-episode Spring 2025 broadcast run, airing from April 10, 2025 to June 26, 2025.
- Fun fact 4
- At the research snapshot, it held a 7.58/10 MAL score from 24,500 votes, ranking #1857 with a popularity placement of #3243; AniList listed it at 75/100 with 651 favourites.
- Fun fact 5
- Its main production credits include Hisaharu Iijima as art director, Yasuko Watanabe as color designer, Kazui Fujita as director of photography, Rie Matsubara as editor, Toshiki Kameyama as sound director, and Ryuunosuke Kasai on music.
Studios
- Shaft
