Steve
Mostly Harmless
Being serious for a moment, which is hard when talking about ninja, I always thought they were more like the Thuggee cult. Not trained in martial arts, but more like they would infiltrate groups, gain their trust, and then do whatever it is they needed to do.Oh dont get me wrong, Ninjutsu as a thing is highly dubious to have existed, and if it did it being codnfiied is highly dubious, and the main body that touts this has economic and political reasons to keep up apperances that it does/did.
I am by no means in the "ninjutsu is legit/existed" block. im in the, if a ninja or somone else is doing ninja things they are doing "nnnjutsu" block. And that would be the better meaning of it, as far as i know Ninja were ad hoc anyway, no real training for them, no real style etc, just ad hoc done when needed.