Ninjai
Flash cartoon
Ninjai: The Little Ninja is a Flash cartoon. The cartoon has not been available online since April 2015.
Overview
The cartoon is a creation of The Ninjai Gang. Ninjai is a web-based animation that centers around the life of Ninjai, a young samurai/ninja who is traveling the world looking for meaning and purpose. Along the way, his path is crossed by rogues or people who help him. Ninjai's best friend is 'Little Bird', a cute and brave sidekick with whom Ninjai often converses.
History
Ninjai first appeared on June 4, 2001 as a trailer created using Adobe Flash, and had a trademark filed for its title on June 14, 2001. The animation series drew a strong following with its unique style and storyline at the time, and ended up producing a total of 12 episodes thereafter, each a few minutes in length.
Despite being made by martial artists who did animation only as a hobby, the quality of the animation grew steadily as the episodes progressed, with more time between each episode as a result. After the release of episode 12, production came to a pause, with the promise of further episodes on the way.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5302479. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2001.
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