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Supposedly Flashy Flash and Speed of Sound Sonic were trained in the same
ninja village. Are there other ninjas from there in the series?


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Are there other ninjas aside Flashy Flash and Speed of Sound Sonic from the same village in One Punch Man?


In the webcomic, there is currently (as of the time this answer was first
written) nothing that unambiguously associates Flashy Flash with Sonic in any
fashion. There are some things to suggest it, though:

> When Flashy Flash fights Garou he uses a technique called "Shadow Steps" to
> move even faster, and that kind of sounds like the name of a ninja-based
> move. He also uses "Wind Blade Kick", a technique we saw Sonic use against
> Saitama in Chapter 15.

On the other hand, in the manga there is [Gale
Wind](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Gale_Wind) and [Hellfire
Flame](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Hellfire_Flame), members of the
Monster Association. These two are explicitly said to be from the same village
as Sonic, and more recently it has been made explicit that Flashy Flash hails
from this village as well.

These characters do not exist in the webcomic in this form. They are evidently
based on the monsters [Gale](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Gale) and
[Hellfire](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Hellfire), who are also
brothers that team up to fight Flashy Flash. But these have radically
different character designs (they're robots, for one), and are quickly
dispatched by Flashy Flash without receiving any real backstory. These
monsters were originally designed by another mangaka, so they couldn't be used
in the manga adapation due to copyright issues.

* * *

The situation in the webcomic has since changed, and there are at least 23
living ninjas we have now seen, not including a mysterious "him". Flashy Flash
and Sonic are now explicitly revealed to be part of the 44th Ninja Class, same
as in the Manga, as well.

> The following is a list of all of the ninjas that showed up, taken from a
> scanlation, including their graduation class: [![a gaggle of
> ninjas](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xGxl1.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xGxl1.png)


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