Shuriken School
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| Shuriken School | |
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 The main characters of Shuriken School are: Eizan Kaburagi, Jimmy B. & Okuni Dohan. |
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| Genre | Animated series |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
| Starring | Charlie Adler Kimberly Brooks Nathan Chess Jessica Di Cicco Maurice LaMarche |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original channel |  Nickelodeon CITV, Jetix |
| Original run | February 11, 2006 (UK) August 20, 2006 (USA)–present |
Shuriken School is an animated series which first aired on August 20th, 2006 on Nickelodeon and then on YTV a few weeks later. It has also been airing on Jetix in the UK since February of 2006, as well as on CITV.
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[edit] Shuriken School Characters
Eizan Kaburagi
Eizan Kaburagi is an only child, raised in an oriental working-class family from Tokirohama. Eizan is intelligent, hardworking, and eager to learn. His sole aim since childhood has been to become a ninja (and apart from that, anything to avoid selling rice balls). His signature weapon appears to be a green, plastic ruler. He is chosen to go to the cheerleader's school in California next semester.
Jimmy B.
Jimmy comes from a comfortable New York family, but pretends to be much more streetwise than his true origins. He spent all his time with his rap gang, developing a real talent for break dance. His parents, perplexed and fed up with their neighbors' comments, sent him to Tokirohama to stay with his aunt and uncle. Before coming to Shuriken, he went to Katana school, Shuriken's competitor, but was kicked out after a week. He is chosen to go to the cheerleader's school in California next semester.
Okuni Dohan
Okuni is the sole female member of the main group, and the most well-studied of them. She frequently cites examples from important lessons, and possesses great deductive skills. She is chosen to go to the cheerleader's school in California next semester.
Tetsuo
A bitter second-year student who looks on all freshman with disdain. He is a powerful and skilled ninja, but his anger keeps him from advancing further. This, combined with his great height, may mean that he has been held back for an unspecified amount of time. Constantly following him is his mindless henchman, Yota. He may or may not have been named after Tetsuo Shima from Akira.
Yota
Yota is Tetsuo's ever-present henchman, following him about like a remora follows a shark. He has little personality of his own, often inheriting the personality of the person he is with. He is extremely clumsy, but (somewhat paradoxically) is good at sneaking. He's also very short.
Ami
Ami is a blonde girl who wears a sailor fuku-type uniform. She is very vain, constantly obsessing over her appearance. However, her pampered looks conceal a great aptitude for disguise and deception. She might have a crush on Jimmy B. which is implied in the episode, "Flip Flops of Fury". Daisuke seems to like her quite a lot, however, she does not return it. She was supposed to go to the cheerleader's school, but instead she gave her ticket to Okuni.
Nobunaga
Nobunaga comes from a long line of skilled sumo wrestlers, and dresses as such. He is fairly well-respected among his peers, and his size and strength make him a formidable opponent. However he is somewhat slow.
Jacques
A rather confused young Frenchman who believes Shuriken School is a diving school, due to the similarities between the uniforms. He dresses in a black scuba suit, reminiscent of Jacques Custeau, whom he may have been named after. His specialty is underwater combat. For some reason, one of his eyes is always closed, making look as if he has one eye.
Marcos
A Latin student who came to Shuriken School to hide from a vicious group called the 3 Saints Gang. It turned out that he ran to Shuriken because he saw them with their masks off. Thinking they were after him, he hid in Shuriken. It was proven in the episode "An XXL Lie" that they abandoned their masks to become Midwestern singers, making his whole escape pointless. He is very sly and mysterious, and he wears sunglasses constantly, in order to hide his face. He excels in covert strikes, and possesses all-around good skills in other fields, too.
Choki
Choki is a Tibetan monk who possesses the powers of telepathy and psychokinesis. He spends most of his time asleep or meditating, and has a very easy-going personality. Most of the time, he prefers floating over walking.
Daisuke
An arrogant student who cares more about his hair than his studies. He is a known coward, and is quick to run from a fight. He likes fellow student Ami, constantly hitting on her and trying to randomly kiss her in almost every episode he appears in. In the episode "An XXL Lie" it is proven that he truly likes Ami. It's unlikely that he is completely useless, though.
Pig
Pig is, perhaps, the most mysterious of all the Shuriken School students. He appears to be a humanoid pig, complete with pink skin, a snout, and ears, and is apparently mute. He communicates via musical instruments, which he is proficient in using. As for his ninja skills or powers, they remain completely unknown... for now, at least.
Principal of Shuriken
He is always worried about the school's funding and is also money obssessed. He is so obssessed with money that he actually asked Kazumi's parents to put the withdrawn check on the phone so he could talk to it in the episode "Eizan's Shadow". However, he does have exceeded ninjitsu skills that made him the principal.
Vladimir Keitawa
One of the three teachers at Shuriken School. He has a really long middle name. He comes from Russia and has great physical stregth. Vlad once pretended to be a foreign exchanged student named Ed so that he could be a certified teacher.
Kubo Utamaro
One of the three teachers at Shuriken School. Kubo teaches boring theory lessons and is madly in love with Kita. He also dreams of being principal one day. He was also very suspicious of Vlad when he was pretending to be Ed.
Kita Shunai
One of the three teachers at Shuriken School. She has master skills with ninja weapons and she used to be a teacher at Katana School. She has a pretty bad temper.
Zumichito
Zumichito is Shuriken School's groundskeeper. He used to be a student there so he knows all of the secrets of the school and lots of stories about it too.
Mrs. Clean
She is the Shuriken School's cleaning lady. She has spent her whole life around Shuriken School and knows some ninja moves as well. She takes great pride in her work and is actually a demon.
[edit] Katana School Characters
Naginata
A ninja who is a student of Shuriken's rivaling school, Katana. He is very selfish and very good at trickery, only using his ninjitsu for the cause of other's misfortune. He seems to suck up to Katana's principal and usually cheats in battles where he is losing. He dislikes Eizan and had lost against him in the episode, "The Winning Ninja".
Bruce Chang
One of Naginata's loyal followers. He likes getting into fights and confrontations. He has a bad temper and also a loud mouth, which coincidentially, gets the group into trouble. He has a rivalry with Jimmy B. He is a brave fighter but is very reckless and senseless. He will just usually jump into a battle. He also sleeps with a teddy bear.
The Kimura Twins
Followers of Naginata. They are sneaky and they will usually gather information for Naginata. They act tough when they are together but when apart, they weaken. They are also dependent on each other. They are sexists, which makes them hate Okuni the most.
Doku
Another one of Naginata's followers. He is big and easily outwitted. His mom still brings him lunch everyday.
Katana's Principal
Everyone seems to fear this man. He has a ridiculous ninja chick that he keeps around him and is always covered by an ominous shadow. Naginata and his group sucks up to him to earn his favor. But he clearly despises Shuriken and their students.
[edit] Miscellaneous Characters
Kazumi
A bratty little rich kid that appeared in the episode, "Eizan's Shadow". He followed Eizan around through most of the episode, annoying and embarrassing the other students. (Including the Katana school students.)
Cheerleading girls
Three cheerleaders from a different prep school in California who came to Shuriken School in a foreign exchange program. Jimmy B. has a crush on Torrance (the blonde haired girl) and Daisuke has a crush on Missy (red haired girl with two ponytails). There was also another red-haired girl seen with Missy (her twin sister, Casey). They also are pretty good ninjas because when they battled the Katana students, they kicked their butts. Eizan, Jimmy B, and Ami were chosen to visit their school, but Ami gave her ticket to Okuni.
Mr. No
The head of a sporting good store that Shuriken School was in debt to. He made a bet with Kita saying that if Eizan wins, he'll remove all of the debt but if he loses, he'll demand instant payment and she has to go on a date with him. He starts to cheat to help the principle of Katana School and he orders 10,000 rice balls. Eizan ends up winning and when Eizan's dad brings him the rice balls he says "I'm ruined."
[edit] Episodes of Shuriken School
- The Winning Ninja - 8/20/06
- Catnap Burglar - 8/27/06
- Eizan's Shadow - 9/3/06
- Vlad's Past - 9/10/06
- Flip Flop of Fury - 9/17/06
- Lousy Labyrinth - 9/24/06
- The Demon & Mrs. Clean - 10/30/06
- An XXL Lie - 11/1/06
- Cherry on the Cake - 11/2/06
- Super Ninja - 11/4/06
[edit] Broadcasting
- Nickelodeon (Autumn 2006 - Present)
- YTV (September 1st 2006 - Present)
- Nickelodeon (August 20th 2006 - Present)
- Nicktoons Network (September 8th 2006 - Present)
Asia
- Disney Channel (Autumn 2006 - Present)
- France 3 (April 2006 - Present)
- Mediaset (Autumn 2006 - Present)
- Disney Channel Asia (Autumn 2006 - Present)
- Jetix (September 4th 2006 - Present)
- Jetix (September 4th 2006 - Present)
- Jetix (September 2006 - Present)
- Jetix (September 4th 2006 - Present)
[edit] External links
SHOWING ON Nicktoons Network Everyday at 5:30pm Weekends at 7:30 Nickelodeon Sundays at 11:30am
