Shuriken School

- Season 2

(2006)

Great Master Otomo is visiting Shuriken School, and holds a conference about the ancient art of eating rice balls. The class is bored silly and the Principal watches Otomo gulp down one rice ball after the other with suspicion. When Otomo sees that neither class nor teachers are interested, he announces that a Great Philosopher living up in the mountain above the town handed on this precious knowledge, which has enabled the hermit-philosopher to live over 300 years! The students, impressed, clamour to meet him. The Principal suggests an all day hike in the mountain ...

The Principal tells the students that an election for class leader will soon take place... no ordinary event, this happening is known as a Ninjalection. In this case, the most ingenious candidate gets the most votes... Thus begins a battle for votes between two candidates - on one side Ami (with Tetsuo and Yota in league as campaign managers), and on the other, Okuni, (supported by Eizan and Jimmy). The Principal keeps an eye on their adventures as the two girls vie with each other for vote. And the winner is... ?

Eizan rescues an adorable little chick from prowling tomcats while out walking with Jimmy and Okuni. Although pets are against Shuriken rules, Eizan decides to keep this one until he's fully recovered. Jimmy isn't happy about this, especially when the chick chooses his brand new shoes for a nest! Soon the entire class is in on the secret, but they all promise not to reveal anything... he's such a cute little bird! But the Cleaning Lady has her doubts and starts snooping, especially after a mysterious wild animal starts attacking the teachers ...

Zumichito tells our three heroes the story of one of his epic adventures. At the time he was a young ninja and a Katana student stole the Jade Dragon from him, a priceless treasure that he was guarding. Just as he'd managed to get the treasure back off the thief - who had taken refuge on a boat on Lake Akayama - a huge monster of a fish attacked them. Zumi had no choice but to abandon the Dragon so as to save his adversary from drowning. Since that day, the treasure has lain at the bottom of the lake. The three friends have heard enough for their enthusiasm to be ...

Kubo is in seventh heaven - Kabuki is getting closer, and for several years now, he has been the director. This year, he's decided to pull the roles out of a hat, and the main role ends up going to Eizan...to his great despair! When it comes to getting up on stage, Eizan falls to pieces, especially knowing half the town will come and watch the show! Rehearsals begin but the play is sabotaged by a mysterious ghost who turns the stage upside down! Nothing's going right and Kubo is on the verge of giving up...

This time the school is really falling to ruins. Old worn out material, broken floor boards...everyone is complaining to the Principal who finds himself having to search the internet for the cheapest solution to put things right - a kind of home automated computer called Alice...

As Eizan, Jimmy and Okuni are wandering through the shopping mall, a woman has her bag snatched. Our heroes chase after the thief, and, with Ami's help - who was in the middle of doing her shopping - they stop him in his tracks in a most spectacular way. When they take the bag back to the owner, Ami recognizes that it's the famous TV presenter from "Whiz Kids". The presenter is so impressed with their skills that she wants to film them at Shuriken to elect her "young genius" of martial arts for her next show! The Principal accepts, on one condition - no one must ...

Zumichito has invented a revolutionary smoke machine - the Holosmoke. The Principal sees it as a new source of revenue for the school. When night falls, the Principal and Zumichito discover two undercover ninjas in the school and chase after them. The next morning the Holosmoke test run turns into a fiasco. The hologram image of a terrifying monster appears in Zumichito's place, creating wide spread panic amongst the students. Who could have sabotaged the Holosmoke? And who could have placed a love poem on Okuni's chair? Mystery... mystery...

To increase the school's income, the Principal has accepted to house three young stars from the music industry in need of calm and tranquillity. The atmosphere at Shuriken is morose. The stars snub their hosts, their manager is unbearable, and the gym is out of bounds for the budding ninjas. Outside, fans, photographers and TV production vans have flocked in, as if by miracle. Shuriken resembles a besieged fort. The Principal announces to Eizan, Okuni and Jimmy that they are about to carry out their first true ninja mission...

Winter has covered Shuriken with its coat of snow and fog. Visibility is down to a bare minimum and the fog lends a scary appearance to the smallest of bushes. How will the students be able to take their important end of term practical exams in weather like this? The Principal moans, but Kita, as she's flipping through one of Eizan's books, has an idea... The next day, without knowing how they got there, the students wake up to find themselves aboard the "Black Dragon", a vessel on course for... the domain of the Master of Terrible Darkness!

Laura and Sam, two private detectives who seem to have come straight out of a detective novel, want to follow a training course at Shuriken with the aim of improving their skills. They need to be able to arrest a gang of audacious thieves. The Principal lets them convince him with a thick bunch of bank notes that Laura offers him. However, it is out of the question that they be taught any secret ninja techniques, that must, as their name suggests, remain secret! Vlad immediately falls under the charm of the young detective. As for the students, they're captivated by ...

When all the kids start acting crazy in their sleep, it threatens to get everyone expelled from Shuriken School. It's as if all the inner demons of each student are being released in their sleep. Eizan, Okuni and Jimmy must get to the bottom of this mystery ... all they have to do is not fall asleep ... stay away ... stay ... awake ... snoring. Too late!

Something's gone terribly wrong with Eizan's father's rice ball business. All the costumers are complaining about the rice balls. They taste like dirt. It's awful. Business is falling off in landslide proportion. And Eizan soon discovers that the only thing worse than all those rice balls is no rice balls! With the rice ball business going bankrupt, Eizan's family is going to have to move and go back to the family farm on a distant island ... which means Eizan will have to move with them! Which means no more Shuriken School for Eizan!!! Eizan and his friends have to ...