Now Viewing: jiraiyaTag type: Character Jiraiya (児雷也 - literally "Young Thunder"), the title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語, "The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya"), is a ninja who uses shapeshifting magic to morph into a gigantic toad. The heir of a powerful clan in Kyūshū of the same name, Jiraiya fell in love with Tsunade, a beautiful young princess who masters snail magic. His arch-enemy was his one-time follower, Orochimaru, who mastered snake magic. Jiraiya (also known as Ikazuchi-Maru) is the protagonist in the tokusatsu movie Kairyū Daikessen (The Magic Serpent). He and his arch-nemesis Orochimaru transform into two daikaiju, a toad and dragon, respectively, and have a duel to the death. In Naruto, a popular manga and anime television series, Jiraiya appears in the series as a ninja with the ability to summon giant toads. Along with the series' versions of Tsunade and Orochimaru, he is part of a trio of legendary ninja known as the Densetsu no Sannin (Legendary Three Ninja). Furthermore, the anime episode depicting his demise is called "The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya." He was trained by Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage. His main characteristics is his frog-based attacks and his unparalleled perverseness, by spying on women's hot springs and visiting clubs with female entertainers (Claiming it to be research for his erotic novels). Aside from his perverted traits, he is in fact Uzumaki_Naruto's Godfather, and trains him to become a stronger ninja. He also trained Naruto's father, Minato (The fourth Hokage) and the Rain Orphans, Nagato, Konan and Yahiko. In the tokusatsu superhero series Sekai_Ninja_Sen_Jiraiya, the protagonists’s hero identity is named after Jiraiya. In the first game of the Tengai_Makyou series, T'engai Makyō: Ziria, Jiraiya's name is spelled Ziria. He's a ninja from the Fire Clan who fights with a kodachi sword and has a pet frog which grows several times its size when Ziria summons it in combat. Tsunade is a ninja girl from the Roots Clan (the arch-enemies of the Fire Clan) who uses snails and a huge axe in her attacks and is in love with Orochimaru, a wandering warrior and poet who wields a naginata and snake magic. These characters all returned in a spin-off fighting game Kabuki_Klash. In Final_Fantasy_XI, players can unlock a visual emote for their character(s) through a quest which requires the in-game job Ninja to be leveled to thirty. With it unlocked (and accessed by typing /jobemote nin), the player's character [regardless of current job] abruptly makes a gigantic toad appear (which clearly pays tribute to Jiraiya due to the Ninja requirement) below them as they stand on top of it, with each in-game race making a specific pose during the emote's duration. Jiraiya_the_Ninja_Boy is the title of a manga by Sugiura_Shigeru. One of the five characters in the Super_Sentai series Ninja_Sentai_Kakuranger is named Jiraiya. Fittingly, as each Kakuranger is associated with an animal, Jiraiya uses toad-based mecha. Akimitsu Takagi's detective novel The Tattoo Murder Case uses the character representations in tattoos worn by three of the main characters: Kinue Nomura (Orochimaru, the snake), her brother Tsunetaro (Jiraiya, the frog) and sister Tamae (Tsunade, the slug; translated as Tsunade-hime), all set within a series of murders that takes all three's lives. In the video_game Persona_4, Hanamura_Yousuke's Persona is a cartoony Jiraiya in a disco costume. Byakko_Jiraiya is a character in the manga and anime series Karasu_Tengu_Kabuto. Other Wiki Information Last updated: 04/12/11 9:18 PM by jedi1357 This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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