A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

Shaft
Crime / Martial Arts / Superpower12 EP/10 Apr 2025

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Synopsis

Konoha Koga seems like a regular high school girl living alone, except she moonlights as a professional assassin. Her tidy little routine gets disrupted when she crosses paths with Satoko Kusagakure, a sheltered ninja on the run from her own village after accidentally breaking their secrecy code. When Konoha takes out one of Satoko's pursuers, the ninja girl calmly cleans up the evidence with terrifying efficiency. So naturally, Konoha offers her a roommate deal — free housing in exchange for body disposal services. Just normal roommate stuff. This 12-episode TV series leans hard into the comedy of two people with wildly dangerous skill sets trying to navigate domestic life together. Satoko is naive about the modern world, Konoha is emotionally detached in that professional killer way, and their dynamic is the kind of odd-couple energy that carries an entire show. Studio SHAFT brings their signature visual flair to it, so expect the compositions and comedic timing to hit different from your average shounen comedy. If you liked the found-family warmth hiding behind the espionage in Spy x Family, or the way Assassination Classroom made you care about characters in absurd life-or-death setups, this scratches a similar itch. There's also a thread of something like The Executioner and Her Way of Life in how it pairs two girls whose professions should make them enemies rather than housemates. It's light, it's funny, and the contrast between casual cohabitation and casual violence never stops being entertaining.

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Konoha Koga

Portrayed by Hanazawa Kana

Satoko Kusagakure

Satoko Kusagakure: A mysterious ninja, her past and skills remain largely unknown.

Portrayed by Mikawa Haruna

MANGA BRIDGE

This season covers Chapters 1-25 of the manga. Continue reading from Chapter 26.

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