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2	''Shinobi no Kuni'' (忍びの国; ''Land of Ninja'') is a HistoricalFiction novel written by Ryou Wada, which was published in 2008. It has a {{manga}} adaptation illustrated by Matsumi Banno, which was serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Monthly Shonen Sunday]]'' from 2009 to 2011.
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4	Set in the 4th year of Tenshou Era during the [[JidaiGeki Warring States Period]] (around 1567) of Japan, it tells a dramatized version of the Battle of Murayama, between the [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga Oda clan]] and the {{ninja}} of Iga province.
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6	The story features an ensemble cast of questionable sanity and morality drawn together in a conflict of politics and ideologies: a young ninja disillusioned by his people's way of living, his lazy nemesis secretly struggling to maintain his love-life, and a bunch of sly politicians with hidden agendas.
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8	!!Tropes used in ''Shinobi no Kuni'':
9	* AntiHero: '''Everyone''', with the women as possible exceptions.
10	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Heibe seems like a meek, kind-hearted young man until he put his CoolMask on. Carnage will follow.
11	* BlackAndGrayMorality: No character is depicted as morally correct. Even the most noble samurais are not able to follow their conscience because of their UndyingLoyalty.
12	* BrilliantButLazy: Mumon.
13	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Apparently Iga ninja develop their ability to move at wind's speed and leap to twenty feet above ground because they used to be workers of castle and temple constructions on mountainous forests, which despite obvious difficulty still demand them to move as fast as possible.
14	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: ''Nearly everyone''. However, [[TreacherousAdvisor Saburouzaemon]] takes the cake.
15	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Bungo.
16	* EvilOldFolks: Iga's council of twelve families.
17	* GoesMadFromTheRevelation: Both Heibe and Saburou slowly goes mad and vengeful once they realized how screwed their society's morals and norms are.
18	* GoldDigger: Lady Okuni.
19	* HenpeckedHusband: Not yet married actually, but [[TheAce Mumon]] is really afraid of his lover's wrath.
20	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Saburouzaemon pays the Iga ninja to help him rebuild Maruyama Castle which he secretly intends to use to invade the region. [[spoiler:The Igas later burn the finished castle, demolishing Oda army with it.]]
21	* HonorBeforeReason: Daizen reveals Saburouzaemon's scheme to Iga's council of twelve families because he doesn't want to wage war against an enemy stupid enough to fall under such simple tactic.
22	* LargeHam: UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga.
23	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sandayuu and co. look like a money-crazed individuals with brains of chimps. But no. They will pretend to fall into your money-filled to trap to turn it against you and extort more money from it.
24	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: A ninja's most common motive for anything he does.
25	* WellDoneSonGuy: Oda Nobukatsu.
26	* WorldOfBadass
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