>>11894283
> but the idea of ninjas we liked were from Chinese and American movies, and Japan apparently liked it too since they ran with it and made shit like Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi that is purely, the ninja created by this fiction
citation needed
Most of the archetypes on ninja came from Kabuki especially during the Meiji restoration. Just because ninjas suddenly got popular to ignorant Americans in the 1980s doesn't mean they mean it is an American invention.