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Anime Like A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

Satoko Kusagakura is a female ninja who ran away from her ninja village with her comrades for no especially good reason. Having split up to avoid detection, Satoko finds herself alone in the city until she meets Konoha, an assassin who was caught on the job.

Konoha initially hopes to use Satoko’s ninja skills to her advantage. However, the only useful thing Satoko can do is turn bodies into leaves. Deeming that good enough, Konoha invites Satoko to live in her house in exchange for cooking and doing clean up after assassin jobs.

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Anime Like A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

For Fans of Cute Girls, Comedic Violence

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Kill Me Baby

Yasuna is a normal high school girl whose best friend, Sonya, just happens to be an assassin.

While they enjoy their usually normal high school days, Sonya can’t quite learn to turn off her honed instincts as an assassin. This means a hug can quickly turn into a snapped neck if Yasuna is too careless.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Kill Me Baby

  • A girl and an assassin are friends
  • Frequent graphic violence, used lackadaisically and comically
  • Many eccentric girls that are sometimes re-occurring
  • Often plotless comedy slice of life

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Kill Me Baby

  • Kill Me Baby is about a normal girl constantly being comically hurt by the instincts of her friend who is an assassin
  • Kill Me Baby enjoys its comic violence, but not as much comedic death like Ninja and an Assassin.
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The Demon Girl Next Door

After a strange dream, Yuuko wakes up to discover that she has grown demon horns. Her mother informs her that they are descendants of a demon that was banished to live powerless by the magical girls of the Light Clan.

Apparently, the only way to break the curse is to find a magical girl and murder her. While she happens upon a magical girl, her power is vastly superior to hers. The magical girl in question, Momo, takes pity on her and decides to train her in order to unlock her latent powers.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and The Demon Girl Next Door

  • Two special people meet each other (demon/magical girl, ninja/assassin)
  • One girl is so pathetic that the other takes pity on her and starts helping her out.
  • Stoic girl, genki girl relationship with a bit of yuri bait
  • Cute Girls Doing Comically Violent Things
  • Re-occurring cast of eccentric girls
  • Plotless slice of life

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and The Demon Girl Next Door

  • The Demon Girl Next Door is about magical girls and demons
  • One character in The Demon Girl Next Door is supposed to be trying to kill the other, but that’s used for comedy.
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Drop Kick on My Devil

The demon Jashin was summoned to Earth by an occult dabbler named Yurine. However, although Yurine successfully summoned her, she doesn’t know how to send her back.

Now, Jashin ends up living with Yurine as her familiar. She knows the only way to go back now is to kill Yurine, but Jashin, incompetent as she is, can’t seem have any schemes go right.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Drop Kick on My Devil

  • Two girls suddenly start living together
  • Stoic girl, spastic girl dynamic where the stoic girl isn’t actually all that nice
  • Re-occurring cast of eccentric characters
  • Cute Girls Doing Comically Violent Things
  • Plotless slice of life

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Drop Kick on My Devil

  • Ninja and an Assassin treats death like a joke but isn’t very graphic. Dropkick on My Devil, as the devil can revive, gets VERY graphic with its violence that it uses for comedy.
  • The devil is trying to kill the girl that summoned her, and the girl that summoned her violently retaliates in Dropkick on My Devil, so they aren’t always so peaceful with each other.
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The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!

Feared and respected by her subjects, Jahy was second-in-command of the demon realm. However, one day, a magical girl attacks and destroys the mystic gem, and with it, the demon realm.

Flung into the human world, Jahy finds her powers greatly diminished, forcing her into a child’s form. While she can briefly return to her old form with a shard of the mystic gem, she now has to deal with real problems like paying rent and affording food all while trying to find the rest of the pieces of the shattered gem.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated

  • A cute girl gets dunked on by the world and people around her
  • Violence and suffering for comedy
  • Plotless slice of life

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated

  • The Great Jahy is about one girl who is a demon forced to live in the human world without much of her power
  • Think of the main character in Jahy like both the ninja and the assassin, she is cold and vaguely evil like Konoha, but also a completely lovable spaz who get dunked on by everyone around her like Satoko.
  • The Great Jahy isn’t as causal with its violence. The jokes are more about her personal suffering.

For Fans of The Secret Daily Life of Assassins

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Lycoris Recoil

In order to cut down on crime and terrorism, an organization called Direct Attack was formed. They take orphaned girls and turn them into agents that protect the country in the Lycoris program.

Takina is one gifted agent, but after a hostage situation leads to insubordination, she is transferred out of the main unit to a lower key branch of Lycoris ran out of a cafe.

Despite being paired with a famed, but more easy-going Lycoris prodigy Chisato while there, Takina is determined to get back into DA, but her new partner is determined to prove that there is more to life than just taking lives.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Lycoris Recoil

  • A stoic girl and a genki girl team up for a job
  • Both girls are in what you would call an “action girl” profession
  • Serious stories undercut by comedy and cuteness in their daily life
  • Yuri bait

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Lycoris Recoil

  • Lycoris Recoil is more a “buddy cop” situation in which two girls working for a secret anti-terrorism task force (of teen girls) get teamed up and have to overcome their contrasting personalities.
  • Lycoris Recoil does have a plot, and it treats it quite seriously.
  • Lycoris Recoil has comedy, but it isn’t structured as a flippant regard for death or disconnected random weird events like it is in Ninja and an Assassin
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Spy X Family

There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.

He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.

Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.

However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Spy X Family

  • Two people in two different professions that involve killing people move in together
  • Any serious action is undercut by how cute, comical, and/or fluffy the slice of life moments are
  • Minimal linear plot and often just progressing slice of life
  • Intensely ridiculous comedy

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Spy X Family

  • Spy X Family follows a false family built by a master spy who, unknowingly, recruits a master assassin as a wife and a psychic orphan as a daughter.
  • Spy X Family does treat its action more seriously, but only in that the action lasts for longer.
  • Spy X Family also has a lot of wholesome family life moments.
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Sakamoto Days

Tarou Sakamoto was a legendary assassin with unmatched prowess. However, five years ago, Tarou Sakamoto disappeared from the criminal underworld.

It turns out that he decided to retire after he fell in love and got married. Now with a wife and young daughter, Sakamoto put on a little weight, works with his wife at a convenience store, and has given up killing under their family rule—absolutely no killing.

However, his peaceful life is threatened when Sakamoto’s old partner, Shin Asakura, comes after him. While he is able to peacefully work things out with Shin, the large bounty that was placed on Sakamoto’s head means that Shin won’t be the only one coming to upend Sakamoto’s peaceful life.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Sakamoto Days

  • Two misfits and/or runaways from a violent profession end up living and/or working together.
  • Wildly silly comedy that somewhat undercuts any serious action and violence

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Sakamoto Days

  • Sakamoto Days is about two ex-assassins working in a convenience store together as their past peers come and try to take them out.
  • Sakamoto Days does actually treat its action quite seriously since it also has a lightly progressing shounen action-type of plot.

For Fans of Genki Girl, Stoic Girl

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Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.

Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

  • A woman ends up living with a runaway
  • Stoic girl, genki girl dynamic
  • Slice of life plot full of absurd jokes
  • Side character in the same situation (ninjas living with humans, dragons living with humans)
  • Yuri bait

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

  • Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is more of a wholesome found family type of affair rather than an absurd comedy like Ninja and an Assassin.
  • Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is about an adult office lady living with a dragon who is also her maid.
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Dungeon People

In a dangerous dungeon that had never been explored fully, Clay searches for her lost father who made it to the lower levels and never returned. However, while she delves deeper than any known adventurer has ever gone, she accidentally destroys a wall while fighting a monster and reveals a bedroom.

It turns out, the unbeknownst to anyone, a dungeon administrator and a whole organization are responsible for maintaining the dungeon and doing necessary tasks like dispatching monster to fight adventurers and refilling treasure chests.

Discovering the what they do, Clay is offered a job helping Belle, the cheerful dungeon administrator.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Dungeon People

  • Two people in two similar, but different professions end up working together
  • Stoic girl, genki girl dynamic
  • Plotless slice of life comedy that occasional treats serious matters flippantly.

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Dungeon People

  • Dungeon People is about a girl who manages a dungeon teaming up with an overpowered adventurer
  • The genki girl isn’t the idiot in Dungeon People
  • There is kind of a plot unfolding in Dungeon People, it just takes some time to get moving
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Gabriel Dropout

After graduating high school in Heaven, angels are sent down to Earth to guide humans down a righteous path. Heaven had high hopes for Gabriel, the top of her class. However, when she descended, she ended up skipping her duties and getting addicted to online games.

Similarities Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Gabriel Dropout

  • A girl flees from her organization and hides out in the modern world
  • A girl either is useless in our world, or becomes useless to society.
  • Cute Girls Doing Comically Degenerate Things
  • Stoic girl, genki girl dynamic

Differences Between A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof and Gabriel Dropout

  • Gabriel Dropout is about an angel forsaking her mission and becoming a shut-in after getting addicted to MMO gaming.
  • Gabriel Dropout doesn’t have the same “roommate” dynamic. It is more about her classmates dragging the main character out of the house.
  • The stoic girl, genki girl dynamic is less of a focus.

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