> Ms Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show as a child.
I would find it absolutely hilarious if that "animated TV show" was Naruto.
I would find it absolutely hilarious if that "animated TV show" was Naruto.
To his luck, the exam was a psychological torture test, and he passes when the time is up by sheer virtue of still being in the room.
The empty sheet is not found by the proctor until after the students left, with the proctor being amused by the fact that such an idiot could pass his exam.
Whether it is the black pyjama variety or the historic one, Naruto does something very different.
There are Ninjutsu in the serie but more often than not they create large explosions or summon a 30 meters tall creature. The whole has very little (if anything, but I don't know all the arcs) to do with espionnage.
Which is 100% fine, but explains why it would be funny to have it as an inspiration.
If you've seen it, you'll know I don't mean to say it's realistic.
But it's a pretty good show!
I wonder how much of the over the topness was planned from the start and how much is just the result of the scaling phenomenon that many shonens suffer from and semi improvised "head above the water" weekly publications.