As long as there are those who believing that there is hope” … Jiraiya

Naruto cosplaying Jiraiya

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I just watched Jiraiya Gaiden. Jiraiya will be taking the limelight for some episodes this coming week. For now, they inserted Jiraiya Gaiden for giving him an exclusive good introduction that would make us understand the revelation of what he has to become on the next episodes.

We might all know him under the names pervy sage or ero-sennin. He always drops his jaw whenever he sees sexy and pretty women. Given the fact, that when he was a kid, his motivation to become a strong ninja was just to impress Tsunade and all the ladies in town!

So who would have thought that the soon-to-be-king-of-all-perverts would be the ‘chosen one’. He was given the prophecy “that he would someday have a student with the power to save or destroy the world”. That’s the reason for his wanderings (not in research for writing his Make Out Paradise series). He have been searching for the fated student to save the world.

Then he met these three kids — Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato. They were war orphans and Jiraiya took them assuming that he had met his destiny.  

One of my favorite scenes is when Jiraiya had a chat with a confused and guilt-stricken Nagato. His philosphy may be too deep for a child to understand, which he then simply said that he just have to ‘grow up’.

“But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others.
That what makes us human”.
…Chapter 373 The Student Teacher Era, page 09

But destiny seems to be cruel. Jiraiya got a news that the kids he had trained didn’t make it to see the end of the war. As much as he grieve for the loss, he hardens his faith with pure determination just like the hero named ‘Naruto’ on the novel he wrote “The Tale of the Gutsy Ninja”, which was very influential to Naruto’s father – Minato.

Minato daydreaming as Naruto, the gutsy ninja

Gutsy Ninja: Give up, on me giving up!

Jiraiya failed for few times, but he never loses hopes. Watch out for more of him as he takes the heroic path in fulfilling his destiny for world peace :-D

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