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Ninja Slayer Gets Smartphone 'Ninja Battle RPG' in Japan

posted on by Egan Loo
"Translation" team supervises free-to-play app for iOS/Android

AltPlus announced that it signed a licensing contract with the Google Play store with in-game item purchases.

franchise's story:

Kenji Fujikido 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 known as Naraku Ninja. 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 ninja in mortal combat.
Narrator: Ninja. A ninja is a demigod entity that controlled society during the Heian period with karate. That truth was forgotten. However, transcending a few thousand years of time, an evil ninja soul was released in the darkness of Neo Saitama! Now, a mysterious ninja soul binds itself to a salaryman who lost his wife and child in a ninja battle! This was the birth of Ninja Slayer, the grim reaper of Neo Saitama!
Text: Dōmo (Hello), I am the Ninja Slayer.
Text: A ninja must kill!
Text on programs: Completion, ancient, data
Text: Sushi, sushi, the target is eating sushi
Text: Ninja Slayer (written as Ninsatsu)

The story was originally posted piecemeal on Toshiyuki Morikawa as the title character.

The anime will Niconico on April 16 at 11:00 p.m. JST.

Thanks to Kagayaki for the embedded video

Source: Inside Games via Hachima Kikō


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