Ninja Bodyguard

Ninja Bodyguard (忍者) is the 2nd Rhythm Game of Stage 5 (26th overall) in Rhythm Tengoku and the 1st of Star Land (63rd overall) in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

The arrange version, Ninja no Shison, appears in Technician in Rhythm Tengoku.

Gameplay
This game is about a Ninja who protects his Lord from the enemy onslaught. The player controls the ninja using Ⓐ and ✚ to swing the sword back and forth in time to destroy the arrows shot by the enemy.

Skill Star
The Skill Star appears when the enemy ninjas shoot four arrows in a row.

Challenge Land
appears in the following Challenge Train courses:
 * All or Nothing!
 * Game Gamble: Advanced

Ninja 2P
Ninja 2P (忍者 2P) is the 3rd Rhythm Game of Stage 3 (11th overall) in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade).

The arrange version, Ninja no Shison 2P, appears in Stage 5 of the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade)

It plays the same as the 1P version, except the two players take turns on each section. This effectively doubles the length of the game.

Trivia

 * This is the only Rhythm Game in the entire series to start with a skippable cutscene instead of a Practice.
 * The game did, however, get a Practice in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, which leads into the cutscene. In it, the arrows are shot by allied Ninjas at a wooden dummy with a face drawn on it, which replaces the Lord. The face itself is a Henohenomoheji, an arrangement of Hiragana characters used to represent a generic human face.
 * This game and Ninja no Shison are the only games to have their controls changed in the arcade version.
 * A lot of the visual design of this game was reused in Dog Ninja in Rhythm Heaven, such as similar looking towers to the ones in the cutscene, and a similar prologue: A big yellow moon with grass in foreground, in a dark blue sky.