Ninja Nonsence: The Legend of Shinobu, aka Ninin Ga Shinobuden or 2x2 = Shinobuden, is a bit more comedic than how it sounds. I managed to scope this out when surfing through the Funimation Channel, the company who licensed it. Thankfully, though it deals with ninjas, this is NOTHING like the over-popularized Naruto series.
The series mainly deals with a ninja-in-training (well, technically, a kunoichi-in-training), Shinobu, and her path to complete her ninja exams. In spite of her enthusiasm, she hardly has the abilities of a ninja, and such is made clear when she tries to sneak in the room of Kaede Shiranui. Taking pity upon her, she becomes friends with Shinobu, though it's hard for her to deal with her perverted master Onsokumaru and the seemingly endless male ninjas, one of which is named Sasuke, though they all are generally the same in appearance.
As it does show her struggle with her training, the anime also deals with Shinobu's personal life, and the comedic troubles she and Kaede have to put up with. The series is short, however, only lasting 12 episodes, though they are primarily 2-in-one epiosdes, much like that of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. The sieyuu for Shinobu, as well as the singer for the insert song Shinobu Ondo is Nana Mizuki, who was the main seiyuu for Nana Suzuki of Seven of Seven. English-wise, her voice is done by Emily Bauer, or Emily Blau (who voiced Megumi Morisato of Ah! My Goddess TV). Kaede is voiced by Zoe Martin, Shinobu's sister, the magical prodigy Miyabi, is voiced by Veronica Taylor (Ash, Delia Ketchum, and May of Pokemon, and Amelia of Slayers), and Onsokumaru is voiced by Sean Schemmel, known largely as the Funimation voice of Drgaon Ball's titular character, Goku, in his adult form. There is only one instance of one role being voiced by two people in this anime, and that is Sasuke. David Willis (voice of roles like Captain Falcon of F-Zero: GP Legend, and voices Devil and Kaede's Dad in this anime) voiced Sasuke for the first 3 episodes, while Jason Linder took over from episode 4 to the end.
Ninja Nonsense is comical, maybe even ecchi at times, but still pretty decent. I grade it a 7.1 of 10.
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