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Nintama Rantarō

type	Film
title	Eiga Nintama Rantarō
director	Tsuneo Kobayashi Tsutomu Shibayama (chief director)
producer	Masahiro Okamura
writer	Yoshio Urasawa
music	Kouji Makaino
studio	Ajiado
released	June 29, 1996
runtime	45 minutes

Nintama Rantarō (忍たま乱太郎) is a Japanese anime series produced by Ajia-do Animation Works and Japanese broadcast on NHK since April 10, 1993. It is an adaptation of the manga series Rakudai Ninja Rantarō, written and illustrated by Sōbe Amako. Nintama Rantarō centers on the title character and his friends as they attend a school for budding ninjas. Like the manga on which it is based, there is a considerable amount of anachronisms for comedic purposes; for example, the titular character Rantarō is bespectacled. The anime also references other Japanese media personalities such as Ken Shimura. The series is currently the longest-running anime on NHK. The official English title is Ninjaboy Rantaro.[6]

In July 2011, a live action film version directed by Takashi Miike titled Ninja Kids!!! was released.[7] A sequel was released on July 6, 2013, called Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible! (忍たま乱太郎夏休み宿題大作戦! の段).

Characters

First Year Ha Class

Fifth Year

Heisuke Kukuchi (久々知兵助)
Long eyelashes and black hair are his defining characteristics. Though his grades are superb and he is earnest and cool, his spontaneous nature was somewhat revealed when he'd failed to realize that the costs of amazake were included in the Explosives Committee's appropriation. Since he had to carry tofu in the Sport's Day relay, he is known as the 'Tofu Kid'. Truthfully he hates this nickname, and in the manga at times he denies liking tofu, but in actuality he is abundant in tofu knowledge and he seems to like tofu cooking. In the anime, he will openly declare his love for tofu and treat others to tofu he has prepared himself. He carries freeze-dried tofu around for a mid-afternoon snack. He is the stand-in committee president for the Explosives Committee and rounds up the underclassmen. Although he is Takamaru's senpai he adds "san" to his name since he is older. In the musical his weapon of choice is the suntetsu. In the survival orienteering he was paired in a group with Isuke. His surname comes from Kukuchi in Amagasaki.

Kanemon Ohama (尾浜勘右衛門)
Though his first appearance was injuring the napping Rantarou, Kirimaru, and Shinbei while practicing his jinba technique, his existence was forgotten for a period of 16 years, until he reappeared in the mixed double survival orienteering in a pair with Torawaka, where his name was finally revealed. On the second occasion when he appeared he did not belong to any committee and was encouraged in vol. 47 by the Headmaster to decide which committee to join while each one ran their food stand at their culture festival. It was later revealed that he was actually a class president and he ended up joining the class president committee. His specialty weapon is the manrikigusari. He is the airhead type who tends to get wrapped up in things. In the original work he has black hair, but in the anime his hair is a deep reddish brown. In first person he uses "ore"; to his superiors he uses "boku" or "watashi". His surname comes from Ohama-cho in Amagasaki, and his name comes from the Kouga ninja Ukai Kanemon.

Raizō Fuwa (不破雷蔵)
Gentle and full of kindness, he is a senpai that lovingly takes care of his underclassmen. Though his grades are excellent, his bad habit is that he is always meandering and hesitating with a broad indecisiveness. After thinking too much, he tires and falls asleep right then and there. Of the "three illness of the ninja", he is the "type who lacks thought". Also, if he goes near a dry river bed, the moisture will expand his hair. Hachiya Saburou from the same class is often seen borrowing his face, lending them the relation of "fifth-year rogumi's specialty combination". Yamada-sensei often says "his honesty is his weakness", but in the 18th volume he passed the survival orienteering while retaining his playfulness. In that survival orienteering he was paired in a group with Ayakashimaru. In the original work Raizou's hair is black, but in the anime it is a bright brown. His namesake is from a proverb meaning 'to follow others blindly' (付和雷同). He shares a room with Saburou.

Saburō Hachiya (鉢屋三郎)
A student with a thousand face, to the point that no one, including the school staff, knows his true face, Saburo is a mischievous, calm and cool student who enjoys wearing disguises of just about anyone, and sometimes alternates faces in-between scenes. Saburo most of the time disguises as Raizo considering the two are quite close friends. He shares a room with Raizou.

Hachizaemon Takeya (竹谷八左ヱ門)
A student with cheerful, optimistic, energetic and also serious attitude, Hachizaemon features long unkempt dull grey-brown hair. As the head of Biological Committee, he holds responsibility in protecting wildlife from being harmed or hunted, which gains respect from his fellow junior committee members (which is dominated with first years). Attempts of hunting wildlife with his presence will only enrage him. He lives in a room by himself, a result of Raizou and Saburou's suggestion to make it easier for first years to come visit him.

Sixth Year

Monjirō Shioe (潮江文次郎)
Often portrayed as a leader among the 6th year seniors, Monjiro is a strict, serious senior that focuses on training mentally as much as physically, and his committee members often gets forced into his bizarre trainings such as using 10 kg abacus, sleeping in cold lake at midnight, making weapons out of food, etc. Despite his serious commitments into trainings, he is easily approached outside of training and has good relationship as a caring senior towards his juniors. He has a favourite word - gin gin - that who only used when he gets excited, angry, or emotional. On occasional episodes, he together with Choji and Koheta tagged along with Kirimaru in his part-time job.

Senzō Tachibana (立花仙蔵)
A pale-skinned and often regarded as a handsome senior with long straight and silky hair, he leads the Saho committee along with Heidayu as his favorite junior. He has natural talents for explosive, bombs, grenades, often carrying dozens of them with him for convenient purpose. Being as normally a calm, rationally thinking senior, he is often described as an excellent student among the seniors. When carrying out solo missions, he often gets tagged along with Kisanta and Shinbei, who both look up to him, but instead of giving a good help, burdens him instead and gets him caught, bomb explodes in his face, trees fall down on him, etc. He has shorter temper for Kisanta and Shinbei harassing him in his missions.

Chōji Nakazaike (中在家長次)
A student who spoke with few words and with few facial expressions, Choji, who speaks slowly, that made his words hard to be conveyed at times, is also the head of librarian. Usually, someone who stands besides him (such as Raizo or Kirimaru who are also librarians) had to be the 'translator' especially to those who don't meet Choji quite often. His expressions can get eerie with one big creepy smile, though his true emotions often contrast his face (such as he will smile creepily when he is hurt, and vice versa). Ironically, Shinbei's little sister Kameko found his smile to be attractive, and even had a crush on him at times.

Koheita Nanamatsu (七松小平太)
Koheita is a sixth-year student with much energy and happy-go-lucky, cheerful, exciting and reckless personality. He made a hobby of digging trenches on soil, sometimes using only a pair of kunai, and sometimes with his bare hands. Apart from that, he also has the tendency to spike just about anything that flies towards him to the ground, like a volleyball spike (which occasionally causes problems to others, and even broke his arm). He is easily approachable by others and treats his juniors that come forward for his help with respect, though sometimes, with reckless running. His favorite word is "Ike Ike Don Don".

Tomesaburō Kema (食満留三郎)
A student Hagumi that has strong fighting spirit, aggressive and hot tempered, but still cares for his juniors with good tolerant. Tomesaburo and Monjiro however tend to argue which then leads them to brawl and fight each other over 'who is better' or 'who is right' matters. His appearance resembles another character in the series, Yoshiro Suzugoya, which was pointed out by Kihachiro. Tomesaburo and Isaku are classmates, and also roommates, and appears to be close.

Isaku Zenpōji (善法寺伊作)
A nice, friendly and caring student of 6th year Hagumi that has a personality akin to a gentle big brother to his juniors, though he is cursed with bad luck to himself, and anyone that gets tagged along with him. He is also dubbed by others and his own members - 'bad luck chairman' - and his own committee as 'bad luck committee'. As a Health Committee chairman, he takes on his job giving aid to injured or sick person responsibly and unbiased, that he also treated a Tasogaredoki ninja Zatto Konnamon, who was supposing to be an intruder. He and his committee members often gets greeted by Konnamon uninformed, sometimes with presence of other Tasogaredoki ninjas.

Staff

Denzō Yamada (山田伝蔵)
Another teacher of Rantaro, he serves to teach the actual techniques and trains the lazy first graders. Denzo tends to lose his patience faster than Doi. He also shows unnatural fondness in disguising himself as a woman, usually with disastrous results. When he is dressed as a woman, his personality transforms completely too, and he refuses to answer to anything besides "Denko". He is Yamada Rikichi's father.

Hansuke Doi (土井半助)
Rantarō's main classroom teacher, he often loses patience with Rantaro and his classmates due to their inability to pay attention. As a runaway ninja, he was rescued by Denzo's family, and stayed with them for a while. He was then recommended by Denzo's wife to teach at the ninja school. His first students were the current sixth years. Hansuke is not his real name. Denzo helped him come up with it when he started teaching, fearing that revealing his real name will invite trouble for the school from the ninjas who are after him. His personality appears to have been the inspiration for Iruka Umino, another ninja teacher who is voiced by the same voice actor.

Headmaster (学園長)
Ookawa Heiji Uzumasa (大川平次渦正) who is the headmaster of the ninja school.

Hemu-Hemu (ヘムヘム)
A dog skilled in ninjutsu, he is the longtime companion of the headmaster and is also in charge of ringing the school bell.

Shina Yamamoto (山本シナ)
The teacher of the female nintamas, she alternates between the form of a young woman and an old lady. No one is sure which is her true form.

Mess Hall Lady (食堂のおばちゃん)

Shinzaemon Tobe (戸部新左エ門)
Shinzaemon Tobe is another teacher at the school, who occasionally appears from time to time. He's a sword instructor who is skilled, but if he doesn't have his daily meals, he loses the strength to even pick up the sword.

Natsunojō Andō (安藤夏之丞)
Andou is the first grade teacher for another class. He often calls Rantaro's class lazy and unproductive, comparing them to his class which seem to do nothing but study all day, thus getting good marks on their tests.

Shuusaku Komatsuda (小松田秀作)
A 16-year-old working at Ninjutsu Gakuen's administration, he is longing to become a ninja, but his clumsiness prevents his from being one. He originally belongs to a fan shop family in the same town as Saitō family.

Music

Opening Themes
1) "Yūki 100%" by Hikaru Genji (eps. 1-47)
2) "Yūki 100%" by Hikaru Genji Super 5 (eps. 48-807)
3) "Yūki 100% (2002)" by Ya-Ya-Yah (eps. 808–1303)
4) "Yūki 100% (2009)" by Hey! Say! JUMP (eps. 1304–1393)
5) "Yūki 100% (2010)" by NYC (eps. 1394–1573)
6) "Yūki 100% (2012)" by Sexy Zone (eps. 1574–1883)
7) "Yūki 100% (2016)" by Junior Boys (eps. 1884–2322)
8) "Yūki 100% (2022)" by Johnny's Jr. (eps. 2323–present)
Ending Themes
1) "Dancing Junk (ダンシングジャンク)" by Super Monkey's (eps. 1-47)
2) "Don't Mind Namida (DON'T MIND 涙 Don't Mind the Tears)" by Hikaru Genji Super 5 (eps. 48–60)
3) "Shaking Night" by Hikaru Genji Super 5 (eps. 61–167)
4) "Shihou Happou Hijideppou" (First Generation) (四方八方肘鉄砲（初代）(eps. 168–198)
5) "0-Ten Champion (0点チャンピオン 0 Grade Champion)" by Junich&JJr (eps. 200–264)
6) "Owara Nai School Days (終わらない SCHOOL DAYS The School Days Never End)" by Junich&JJr (eps. 265–288)
7) "Kō Shichai Rare Nai (こうしちゃいられない)" by Junich&JJr (eps. 289–368)
8) "Nin-Nin Nintama Ondo (にんにん忍たま音頭)" by SAY S (eps. 369–409)
9) "Itsu Datte (いつだってYELL Always Yell)" by Emiri Nakayama (eps. 410–499, 501–504, 506–509, 512–517, 519–522, 524–527, 529–530)
10) "Hemu-Hemu Waltz (ヘムヘムのワルツ)" by Hemu-Hemu (episode 500, 505)
11) "Tamae Kaki Uta Shinbe We no dan (たまえかきうたしんべヱの段)" by Yuko Bracken (episodes 510, 518, 523, and 528)
12) "Memory and Melody" by SPLASH (eps. 531–566)
13) "Ai ga Ichiban (愛がいちばん Love's Best)" by Sayuri Ishikawa (eps. 567–647)
14) "Shihou Happou Hijideppou (Second Generation) (四方八方肘鉄砲（2代目）)" by Mayumi Hunaki (eps. 648–807)
15) "Sekai ga Hitotsu ni Naru Made (世界がひとつになるまで Until the World is One)" by Ya-Ya-Yah (eps. 808–967)
16) "Kaze (風 The Wind)" by Aya Ueto (eps. 968–1047)
17) "Oh!ENKA (桜援歌 (OH!ENKA)" by Kanjani8 (eps. 1048–1153)
18) "Ai ni Mukatte (愛に向かって)" by Kanjani8 (eps. 1154–1303)
19) "Yume Iro (夢色 Dream Color)" by Hey! Say! JUMP (eps. 1304–1393)
20) "Yume no Tane (ゆめのタネ)" by NYC (eps. 1394–1573)
21) "Kaze wo Kitte (風をきって)" by Sexy Zone (eps. 1574–1738)
22) "Matta Nante na Shi! (待ったなんてなしっ!)" by Sexy Zone (eps. 1,739–1,883)
23) "3-byou Waratte (3秒笑って)" by Junior Boys (eps. 1884–2017)
24) "Yancha na Hero (やんちゃなヒーロー)" by Hey! Say! 7 (eps. 2018–2169)
25) "Imada!! (いまだ!!)" by WEST. (eps. 2170–2322)
26) "Kono Aozora wa Wasurenai (この青空は忘れない)" by Johnny's Jr. (eps. 2323–present)

Nintama Rantarō

Characters

First Year Ha Class

First Year I Class

First Year Ro Class

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Fifth Year

Sixth Year

Kunoichi Class

Staff

Tasogaredoki Castle

Dokutake Castle

Other characters

Music

Episodes

Films

Video games

Broadcast

See also

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