-->''The ninja world is at war... whatever.''

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Temporary summary courtesy of Anime News Network:

Rokujou Miharu, the Master of Apathy, was just a normal boy living a normal life planning to own a normal restaurant. After being pestered by his classmate Aizawa Kouichi and his English teacher Kumohira to join the ninja club time and again, Miharu is attacked by a group of ninjas and learns of the Book of Knowledge a.k.a. hijutsu dwelling within him and that Kouichi and Kumohira are actually ninjas. With the strongest power of Nabari(ninja world) inside him and dangerous ninjas out to kidnap him, can Miharu's life of indifference remain, or will he be forced out of his days of apathy...

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!!Provides Examples Of:

*AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil (Present at Alya Academy [[spoiler:although it turns out they're all being manipulated, first by an adult, [[TheManBehindTheMan then]] by one of their own]].)
*ActionGirl (Raimei, various ninja girls and women.)
*AfraidOfNeedles (Kumohira's irrational fear of... vehicles of all sorts. Apparently he used to be an award-winning choirboy in Ireland, but being forcibly brought over to Japan in an airplane traumatized him so much he became tonedeaf.)
*AmbiguousGender (Subverted. [[spoiler:the reader (and even some characters, apparently) start out believing that Yoite is a boy. Later it turns out that he's actually... intersexual. It doesn't really matter in the long run, though, and isn't gone into in much detail, only the readers now know another reason for his angst and identity issues.]])
*AngstDissonance (mostly Yoite.)
*ArtEvolution (The art in the manga became more sophisticated and pretty with time, though recently the characters' bodies look more and more like stick figures.)
*BadassBookworm (Aizawa Kouichi seems like a mild-mannered and well-spoken young man often taken aback by his friends' quirks and isn't the best at ninja techniques...except when push comes to shove, he becomes a cool, level-headed, and actually ''professional'' ninja who doesn't hesitate to kill, brainwash, and do whatever it takes to [[spoiler:free himself from the curse of immortality, even if it means siding with the enemy village.]])
*BadassLongcoat (Yoite is almost never seen without some sort of thick, black coat. He won't take it off, even if it's the middle of summer or if he's soaking wet.)
*BigEater (Yoite can be seen eating huge amounts of food in the background of various scenes. He'll eat just about anything since [[spoiler:his Kira skill is robbing him of all his senses, and has already taken his sense of taste.]])
*BlueBishonenGhetto (Every major and minor male character under 30 is attractive. No exceptions.)
*BladeReflection (Raikou in the anime opening.)
*BlandNameProduct (According to the anime, Yukimi uses software like Odobe Photograph, Mouton AntiVirus 2015, Saikrosoft Sentence/EXL/Autolock/Postman, and Ninja Seiden.)
**In the manga, Kotarou is seen playing with a Somy handheld game resembling a PSP.
*CharacterFocus (Yoite and Miharu's relationship is very much the focus of the series for a rather long time - [[YourMileageMayVary possibly]] to the extent of Yoite being considered a one-ninja SpotlightStealingSquad.)
*CrossDressingVoices (both Miharu and Yoite are voiced by female voice actresses.)
*CuteShotaroBoy (Miharu, who is very much aware of his own cuteness and is not above using it to his own advantage, or just to torment people.)
*DangerousForbiddenTechnique (Yoite's Kira, Miharu's Shinrabanshou, a number of others)
*DeusAngstMachina (arguably, Yoite)
*DysfunctionJunction (Most main characters have either a horrible traumatic past, or a horrible traumatic present. Or both.)
*ElaborateUniversityHigh (the Alya Academy)
*EnigmaticMinion (Yoite)
*FaceHeelTurn ([[spoiler:Miharu joining the Kairoushuu, and his friends' willingness to help him even after he's apparently betrayed Banten village.]])
*FacialMarkings (Miharu, whenever the Shinrabanshou is "activated")
*FashionVictimVillain (Raikou for sure, except for the outright "villain" part. His work clothes include something like a denim vest, a hakama over jeans, and sandals. His casual clothes are canonly recognized as really, really, ''really'' terrible. He has seriously considered buying a coat of gold sequins. And one with giant stars across it. And has worn a shirt with huge feathers hanging off the back.)
*FoeYay (Miharu and Yoite start out like this, but are ''really, really'' bad at acting like foes, and it quickly blossoms into full-fledged HoYay, [[spoiler:especially after Miharu's FaceHeelTurn]]. There's some minor FoeYay between Kumohira and Yukimi too. Not to mention the rather creepy scene where [[spoiler:Hattori]] is practically hitting on Yoite - [[spoiler:''"You really are diligent and smart... as well as beautiful."'']])
*GenkiGirl (Raimei, though she has her angsty moments)
*HandsomeLech (Fuuma Kotarou)
*HighlyVisibleNinja (Averted: ninja actually sneak around and kill people in very good disguises.)
*HoYay (Oh boy... Yoite and Miharu, Raikou and Gau, Yoite and Yukimi, Kumohira and Miharu...)
*IncurableCoughOfDeath (one symptom of Yoite's condition)
*KiAttacks (Yoite inflicts damage by forcing some of his life force into the opponent, and can do anything from slice a person in half to [[spoiler:bring people out of comas.]])
*LaserGuidedAmnesia (Seems to occur a lot whenever [[spoiler:the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique shinrabanshou]] is used]] - see [[spoiler:"ten years ago"]]. And [[spoiler:after Miharu used the shinrabanshou in chapter 51, everyone apparently has this regarding everything pertaining to Yoite]].)
*LetThemDieHappy ([[spoiler:The last thing Miharu says to Yoite is "I'll make okonomiyaki for you again sometime," implying that they'll have a long and peaceful future together, before Yoite dissolves into dust and Miharu erases his existence (which isn't technically death, I suppose, but it serves the same function - Yoite went out with a smile on his face).]])
** [[spoiler:Yoite wasn't erased]] in the anime. [[spoiler:Use of Kira turns the body to dust on expiry.]]
*NiceHat (Yoite's giant cap. Some fans have called this series "The Hat Anime." He loses it surprisingly often for something so iconic, though.)
*{{Ninja}} (Almost everybody.)
*NoodlePeople (Especially with the ArtEvolution.)
*OvertookTheManga ([[YourMileageMayVary According to some]], led to a bad case of Adaptation Decay.)
*PaperThinDisguise (In a small extra in one of the volumes, Raikou pretends to be Yoite by putting on his coat and hat. Gau comments that Raikou's pretty pink hair makes the disguise totally ineffective. Yoite then enters the room and freaks out, thinking that there's a {{Doppelganger}} before him. Perhaps Yoite's just dumb, or it's RuleOfFunny at work.)
*PhenotypeStereotype (Averted: Kumohira is partly Irish, and he does have blue eyes, but with dark hair instead of blond.)
*PickyEater (Miharu lives on a diet of mostly sweets, which would explain why he weighs all of 77 pounds.)
*ThePromise (Miharu to Yoite, Kumohira to Miharu)
*{{Samurai}} (Raimei, Raikou)
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ([[spoiler:Kouichi and Shijima.]])
*RedEyesTakeWarning (Kouichi - while he apparently isn't evil, he's certainly more ruthless than he appears in the beginning, and he's definitely planning something behind his team's back. Plus, he's [[spoiler:immortal, and not exactly human.]])
*RedStringOfFate (Possible variant - it's never stated to be red, and it's drawn as being tied to the index finger, but [[spoiler:after erasing Yoite, for some time Miharu feels as though there's a thread connecting him to something - or someone - elsewhere. He seems to get over it after a while.]])
*ReluctantHero (When [[HoYay Yoite]] comes into the picture, though...)
*SealedEvilInACan
*SecretIdentity (Many ninja/samurai in Nabari have various jobs/occupations in the "surface world".)
*ShipTease (mostly with Miharu and Yoite. Just watch the second ending sequence of the anime.)
*SleepCute (Miharu and Yoite in the aforementioned anime ending.)
*TearJerker ([[spoiler:[[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: Chapter 50]], combined with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. And [[AdaptationDecay arguably]] [[spoiler:the final scene of the anime]].)
** The immediate aftermath of [[spoiler:Chapter 50]] might count too. The pain [[spoiler:Yukimi]] is obviously going through can be rather wrenching to read - the same goes for [[spoiler:Miharu]]'s reaction, especially his NotSoStoic breakdown. [[spoiler:''"I didn't want to erase that person's existence... because I wanted us to live together... so why did I choose this..."'' ''"If that person's memories or remembrance were left, I would surely... not be able to live..."'' And then he ''claws at his throat''. And bursts into tears.]])
** Chapter 61 is both this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
*ThemeNaming (The names of the Shimizu siblings, Raikou and Raimei, mean "lightning" and "thunder," respectively. Though unrelated to the Shimizu family, Gau's name means "rain shower.")
**Most of the characters are named after some sort of weather. Yoite means "evening breeze", Kumohira means "calm cloud", and Fuuma means "wind demon". Yukimi has the character for "snow", and Kouichi has the character for "rainbow". Also, while not technically weather, Miharu's name contains the character for "spring".
*TheStoic (Miharu)
*TheWoobie (Yoite)
*WallGlower (Yoite does this in volume 6 of the manga.)
*WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (Kouichi)
*WhiteHairedPrettyGirl (Shijima)
*YamatoNadeshiko (Ichiki... ''or is she?'')
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair (While most characters seem to have plausible hair colors, Raimei's brother Raikou has hot pink hair, though it used to be blond (not to mention that Raimei calls his pinkness "stupid"). Minami Juuji's is a green-blue. Shijima has white hair which is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since she's [[spoiler: actually a white cat]], and Kouichi is a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy. Again [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since he's [[spoiler: actually a snowy owl.]])
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