Ninja history from old Japan
The real ninja were stranger than the movies.
Step into the time machine. Hanzo will show you a famous ninja trick, probably get caught, and then tell you what really happened in history.
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The confident student
Hanzo
Young, fast and very sure of himself. Hanzo demonstrates the ninja tricks you know from anime and films. It rarely goes to plan.
“Yeah… I meant to do that.”
The quiet master
Danzo
Hanzo’s teacher. He says little, sighs a lot, and then shows how shinobi really did it, according to the historical record.
“…”
