Nobunaga no Shinobi

Country: Japan

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A female ninja named Chidori helps the warlord Oda Nobunaga unify Japan. The show mixes historical events with comedy and cartoonish chibi-style characters.

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What happens

Ninja Girl & Samurai Master, known in Japan as Nobunaga no Shinobi (信長の忍び; lit. 'Nobunaga's Ninja'), is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Shigeno. It was serialized in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal from June 2008 to July 2025, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes. 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. The series has spawned various spin-off manga series. An anime television series adaptation directed by Akitaro Daichi and animated by TMS Entertainment was broadcast for three seasons between October 2016 and September 2018, totalling 78 episodes. The series was licensed by Crunchyroll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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