It specifically illustrates the comradery of ninja which is rarely explored but in a few anime like Naruto or highly fitionalized films such as Shinobi. Ninja are usually portrayed as lone assassins with little care for anyone besides themselves. And who can ever know which image is closer to the truth? I only know that the few pupils of the ninja arts who I've met were not at all loners.
It specifically illustrates the comradery of ninja which is rarely explored but in a few anime like Naruto or highly fitionalized films such as Shinobi. Ninja are usually portrayed as lone assassins with little care for anyone besides themselves. And who can ever know which image is closer to the truth? I only know that the few pupils of the ninja arts who I've met were not at all loners.