Manmaru the Ninja Penguin Groups & Factions at PopRot
Groups and factions
The show’s setting revolves around ninja clans living in the mountains. TV Asahi’s synopsis describes a 300-year battle among three clans, with Jiya bringing Manmaru in as a new recruit.
Jiya’s trainees
Manmaru, Tanutaro, and Tsunejiro function as the visible training group for PopRot readers: a penguin, raccoon, and fox whose personalities clash before their skills can synchronize.
The mountain ninja clans
The three-clan conflict gives the series stakes without changing its family-comedy identity. The clans are best understood as a backdrop for lessons, tests, and rivalry rather than a grim war structure.
Production/source faction
Behind the scenes, the anime connects Monthly Shonen Gangan manga roots, Shin-Ei Animation production, and TV Asahi broadcast/catalog handling.
Source note: PopRot researched this guide from TV Asahi’s program guide, Anime News Network encyclopedia data, and the English Wikipedia/Wikidata summary of Ninpen Manmaru. No anime-specific Fandom wiki was found for this property during this run, and AniList/Kitsu access was unavailable or incomplete, so episode-level scene recaps are intentionally source-limited rather than invented.
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