Unfortunately I don’t own any Ninja, my salary is too small to afford it…, but I’ve been watching the movement since the project got started.

Japanese NFT market is still very tiny, compare to overseas, so that I’d be grateful if you have an interest in Japanese NFT culture through “CryptoNinja”.

NotesIt’s not that someone like CryptoNinja’s owner asked me to write this article for promotion or something.I just wanted to share the cool Japanese NFT to the world as a Ninja’s fun.

What is “CryptoNinja“?

“CryptoNinja“ is one of the most valuable and influential collectibles in Japan.

As you can see the table below, which is made on Oct 2021 by miin who is sharing NFT trends on SNS, “CryptoNinja“ is transacted 63.8 within 7 days and the floor price is top ranking on OpenSea.Top1 to 4 projects are bigger in total volume but they started running way earlier than others.

“Onigiriman’s cute girl Collection“ and “CryptoNinja“ is catching up with incredible speed these days.

OK, some of you guys might wonder “who created all these Ninja?”

I’m going to tell you who brought these charming Ninja into existence.

Who is the founder of “CryptoNinja“?

Hayato Ikeda, ikehaya-nft.eth on his twitter, is the founder of “CryptoNinja” project. He is a big business influencer in Japan and professional marketer. He has 319.9K follower on Twitter and 234K subscriber on YouTube. Also he got so many fans in his e-mail newsletter and voice media too.

And he was ranked in “100 mast follwed .eth handles“ which was shared by “ultra sound money @ultrasoundmoney“ below. According to this tweet, he is the 7th followed .eth handles and he’s the only japanese on that ranking.

https://twitter.com/ultrasoundmoney/status/1447573886292353035

Yes, he’s very good in marketing and that’s one of the biggest reason why his Ninja project is growing successfully as of now.

By the way, all Ninja are drawn by Japanese NFT artist, ”Rii2@NFT Artist”, who is well known artist in Japan and he has own NFT collection on OpenSea.

Here’s his collection.

https://opensea.io/collection/themafiaanimals

“Funfic” spark up Ninja Boom

Another factor of the Ninja Boom is “Fun fiction” which is unique to Japanese Anime culture.

Ikehaya is encouraging CryptoNinja’s fan to make&sell their funfic as his marketing strategy. By this funfic movement, so many illustrator and creator joined “CryptoNinja“ so that the project is spreading and expanding.

The funfic NFT is sharing in the community in discord. You can check their cute NFTs there.

The community ?

The biggest reason why I love “CryptoNinja“ is the community. The members are talking how much they love “CryptoNinja“ and NFT itself.And I like their good vibe which is like all members are supporting each other to make “CryptoNinja“ more exciting.

https://discord.gg/zEfJh67p

https://opensea.io/collection/crypto-ninja-nft