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As a comedic manga and anime designed for “adult” audiences and intended to be aired late at night, Ninja Nonsense is filled with innuendo, much of which satirizes other anime and manga. Onsokumaru, a satire on mascot characters, joins a long and “distinguished” line of anime perverts whose interest in anything sex-related is carried to incredible lengths. Sasuke (and his identical fellow students) has a habit of breaking the fourth wall and commenting on things such as the fan service that seems to follow Shinobu wherever she goes.

Shinobu’s fondness for Kaede, which frequently crosses the border into obsession, has led Onsokumaru to suspect a lesbian attraction. The subplot, such as it is, is played for laughs — particularly Onsokomaru’s softcore-pornographic fantasies on the subject, one of which is shown on-screen briefly. The anime lacks any space-time continuity, characters can appear anytime, anywhere, even simultaneously in two distinct places. The anime includes references to Japan’s television programming content laws, particularly in reference to nudity.