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An omniscient narrator notes that mosquitoes bite everyone but ninjas, who are simply quicker and sneakier. A kid in ninja attire is on hand to demonstrate the ninja's athletic and mental superiority. But there's some seriously (and hilariously) non-ninja-like behavior exhibited in the cartoony digitally colored ink drawings when the ninja vanquishes a mosquito via sandwich: Who says ninjas can't bite mosquitoes?