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Toad Sage (蝦蟇仙人, Gama Sennin),[1]The Village’s Madness (里の狂気, Sato no Kyōki),[2]Perverted Hermit (エロ仙人, Ero-sennin, English TV: Pervy Sage)[3]Jiraiya of the Toads (蝦蟇の自来也, Gama no Jiraiya)
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Jiraiya (自来也) was one of Konohagakure’s Sannin. Famed as a hermit and pervert of stupendous ninja skill, Jiraiya traveled the world in search of knowledge that would help his friends, the various novels he wrote, and, posthumously, the world in its entirety – knowledge that would be passed on to his godson and final student, Naruto Uzumaki.
Jiraiya was a tall and well-built man in adulthood with fair skin. He had waist-length, spiky white hair that he usually tied back into a ponytail, with two shoulder-length bangs framing his face. There were red lines under his eyes which extended further down his face as he got older, going all the way to the bottom by the time he was an adult. By the time he was middle-aged, he developed wrinkles around the corners of his mouth and a wart (possibly a piercing in the manga[23][24]) on the left side of his nose. Following an encounter with Naruto’s Version 2 form, he received a large scar on his chest.[25] His usual attire consisted of a green short shirt kimono, and matching pants, under which he wore mesh armor that is visible at his wrists and ankles. He also wore hand guards, a black belt, traditional Japanese wooden sandals, and a red haori with two yellow circles on each side. He often carried a large scroll on his back and had a tattoo on his left palm, and he wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for “oil” (油, abura), which denoted his affiliation with Mount Myōboku.
Abilities[]
Jiraiya attacks Pain with one of his strongest techniques.
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Kazekage Rescue MissionJiraiya returns Naruto to Konoha after two-and-a-half years. Kakashi greets them when they arrive and Naruto gives him a copy of Icha Icha Tactics, which Jiraiya wrote during their time together. He entrusts Naruto to Kakashi’s are, warning that Akatsuki will likely be making a move soon; he sends the same warning to Sunagakure, whose Kazekage is a jinchūriki like Naruto. Jiraiya leaves Konoha to investigate Akatsuki but returns shortly afterward to inform Tsunade that the Kazekage has been captured. She already knows this and will send Naruto and his team to Suna for assistance. He warns Naruto to keep his temper and not to use “That Technique” He also tells Kakashi to keep an eye on Naruto, giving him a seal that can be used to suppress the Nine-Tails if Naruto starts losing control of it.
Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance MissionWhen the Kazekage is successfully rescued, Jiraiya and Tsunade meet with Kakashi to discuss Naruto’s display of the Nine-Tails’ power during the mission, a sign of his worsening control. Jiraiya explains his own experience with Naruto’s Version 2 form and his observations about how Naruto’s transformations work. Because Naruto can be as much a risk to himself as he is to others in these states, they task Yamato with keeping him in check.
Itachi Uchiha Pursuit Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Itachi Uchiha Pursuit MissionJiraiya visits Tsunade and reports rumors of that Orochimaru has been killed by Sasuke. They share these rumors with Naruto and Sakura Haruno, who suspect that Sasuke is making moves against his brother, Itachi Uchiha of Akatsuki.
Deciphering Jiraiya's dying message becomes Konoha’s top priority, though Jiraiya’s code is unrecognizable to the Konoha Cryptanalysis Team. Only Naruto, one of the people closest to Jiraiya, can identify the code’s key: Icha Icha Tactics. By taking the first word on each page Jiraiya specifies, they produce the message, “The real one isn’t among them.” It is not until the examination of the Animal Path and the interrogation of the Ame ninja are completed that Jiraiya’s message makes sense: the Six Paths of Pain are controlled remotely by a main intelligence, Nagato. Pain’s Assault on Konoha is already underway by the time this is figured out. Still, Naruto, after defeating all six Pains, can use the information to find and meet with Nagato. It is also only by using Jiraiya’s legacy and teachings that Naruto makes Nagato see his impact on their former teacher.
Naruto is very depressed when he first learns of Jiraiya’s death and tries blaming it on Tsunade since she let him fight Pain alone. It eventually occurs to Naruto that Jiraiya, by fighting Pain, has bought him time for his fight with Pain; he uses this time to learn senjutsu which, in combination with what Fukasaku can report about Pain’s abilities, allows him to defeat the Six Paths of Pain. When he meets Nagato, Naruto wants to take vengeance for Jiraiya’s death, but he decides instead to forgive Nagato, thereby ending the cycle of hatred that the main character of Jiraiya’s book, The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, spoke against. Nagato realizes that this same idea that Naruto got from Jiraiya, Jiraiya, in turn, got from him and that his actions in Akatsuki, therefore, contradict himself and Jiraiya. He gives his life to revive those killed during his attack on Konoha, the only atonement he can offer. Nagato later observes that if Jiraiya’s was the first story in a trilogy and Naruto’s will be the last, his own is the better-forgotten middle volume. Upon his final sealing in the war, Nagato tells Naruto that he will return to Jiraiya’s side, and they will watch together as Naruto brings the story to a close, referring to Jiraiya’s life as a true masterpiece.
Naruto’s memorial to Jiraiya.
After observing Naruto’s confrontation with Nagato, the Great Toad Sage discovers that his prophecy was somewhat incorrect: Jiraiya would not train the Child of the Prophecy, he would train the Children of the Prophecy, Nagato and Naruto, both of whose actions steer the world towards peace because of Jiraiya’s influence. When bidding farewell to his father who saved him from Kurama, Naruto mentioned that of all the shinobi he met, Jiraiya was the one he respected the most, making his father happy. Obito Uchiha, after plunging the world into the Fourth Shinobi World War, blames the actions of Naruto and Nagato for the failure of his Eye of the Moon Plan; because Jiraiya was their teacher, Obito decides that, in a sense, it was Jiraiya who defeated him in the end.[26] For Jiraiya’s influence, Naruto creates a memorial to him in the woods near Konoha after Pain’s Assault ends. The memorial itself is a rock with the kanji for “teacher” (師, shi) carved into it; Naruto also leaves a copy of Gutsy Shinobi and “never-dying flowers of hope” given to him by Konan. In later years, Tsunade would visit the memorial to toast her childhood comrade, doing so on the day Naruto became Hokage.
Tsunade is just as sad as Naruto when she finds out about Jiraiya’s death, and it provides her with yet another reason to keep Konoha safe from Pain so that his sacrifice is not wasted. She is rendered comatose in her effort to protect the villagers which most of the Konoha Council voiced regret that Jiraiya, being dead, cannot succeed Tsunade in becoming the Sixth Hokage. When the Fourth Shinobi World War starts, Orochimaru expressed disinterest in reincarnating Jiraiya to have him fight for Akatsuki for two reasons: one, he had no intention of disrespecting Jiraiya as a powerful shinobi he had the pleasure of working with; and two, the Akatsuki would use more powerful reanimations of previous shinobi to use in the war.
Trivia[]
Jiraiya and the other Sannin are named after the characters in the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari; Jiraiya references the story before his death. The Jiraiya of that story excels in toad magic.
“Jiraiya” (自来也), roughly translated can mean “I came”, whereas from the derived story the name holds the meaning “Young Thunder” or “Young Lightning”.
Jiraiya is given no rank in the manga or its databooks, but the anime classifies him as a jōnin.[27]
Studio Pierrot’s Settei sheets of Jiraiya show that he was 153 cm when he was part of Hiruzen’s genin team. They also show that as an adult his sandals add 7 cm to his height.
According to the databook(s):
Jiraiya's hobby was sneaking a peek into a Women’s Bathing House.
Jiraiya completed 1,839 official missions in total: 58 D-rank, 345 C-rank, 684 B-rank, 614 A-rank, 138 S-rank. With this rating of mission completion by Jiraiya, he has the most completed missions of all characters in the entire Naruto series.
Jiraiya’s favorite phrase was “Free and uninhibited” (自由奔放, Jiyū honpō).
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