Nobunaga no Shinobi


Nobunaga no Shinobi is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Naoki Shigeno, serialized in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal since 2008. The series is about a fictional shinobi named Chidori who aids the real Japanese general Oda Nobunaga on his journey to the unification of Japan, so that he may bring peace to the land. It has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes. A spin-off manga titled Nobunaga no Shinobi: Owari Tōitsu-ki began serialization in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal Arashi in 2012, and has been collected in a single tankōbon volume. Other spin-off manga series include Gunshi Kuroda Kanbee Den, Masamune sama to Kagetsuna kun and Sanada Tamashii.
An anime television series adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi and animated at TMS Entertainment aired between October 4, 2016 and March 28, 2017. A second season aired from April 8 to September 29, 2017. It was simulcast by Crunchyroll under the title Ninja Girl & Samurai Master. An "Episode 0" was screened at the AnimeJapan 2016 event between March 25 and 27. A third season aired between April 6 and September 28, 2018.

Characters

;Chidori
;Oda Nobunaga
;Sukezou
;Nōhime
;Toyotomi Hideyoshi
;Nene
;Oichi
;Mori Yoshinari
;Honganji Kennyo
; Nyoshunni
;Mochizuki Chiyome
;Ashikaga Yoshiaki
;Hachisuka Masakatsu
;Akechi Mitsuhide
;Tokugawa Ieyasu
;Matsunaga Hisahide