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What’s your opinion on jiraiya? Personally I detest him

Funny you should ask ‘cause I’m readying chapter 29 for publishing as we speak, and he just happens to make his first apparition here.

I dislike him and always have. In fact I think he’s the only “nice” character I disliked from the start - for most of the others it came when I was older and analyzing Naruto deeper than I had as a kid. But Jiraiya never worked on me. First of all, because the pervert trope is one of the things I dislike the most in manga and anime culture. This whole “old man perving after women, trying to see them naked and talking about boobs all the time” really isn’t what draws me to the media. Especially because it’s never criticized in any way - he gets called out on it and punched on occasion, but it’s not seen as a major character flaw, the way it should. I read back on his first meeting with Naruto for chapter 29 and damn. Naruto uses Sexy Meta to convince him to train him, and he tries to bargain for him to stay in that form the whole time… NOT cute and funny. This is just gross.

Generally speaking he is unlikeable to me. Irresponsible, immature, caring only about his immediate pleasure, kind of mean at times too… It’s been said before but the scene where he convinces Naruto to entrust him with his hard-worn money, only to spend it all in women and alcohol? Like, wow. That’s top-notch asshole move, there’s nothing excusable about it, and even as a kid it made me very uncomfortable, seeing that it was pretty much swept under the rug.

And well, getting into meta and over-analyzing Naruto really doesn’t paint him in a better light, because he’s the boy’s fucking godfather and he abandoned him just like the rest. Even if he was spying around, even if he had missions and whatnot, he should have checked on the kid, there’s really no excuse for it. And again the issue is that it’s not one. Just like the Sandaime, his actions are never put into question. It feeds into the general issue of no one ever fucking apologizing to Naruto for failing him and for the shit they put him though, and Naruto never resenting anyone either, something that’s I’m forever bitter about (and made me write 240k of fanfic lol). As it is, his death didn’t work for me as well as it’s supposed to in the narrative, because like… I really never felt like Naruto was that attached to him, and had any reason to? And I surely wasn’t attached either. I was sad Naruto lost him, but at the same time… Meh.

I enjoy his backstory with Tsunade and Orochimaru a lot more. I like their relationship and the tragedy behind it, how they failed utterly and completely to save each other. And I’m partial to the whole Ame Kids Debable I guess, even if how could the village let him stay in a warzone to teach foreign kids for what many years is beyond me. Don’t shinobi have like, things to do? Duties to uphold? Also I’m on the wikia and I just saw that when he parted with them he told Konan she’d grow to be beautiful, and to come see him when she turned eighteen… Why man, why.

And this whole prophecy child also does very little to me? But that has more to do with that plotline in general, that was pretty useless and unnecessary imo. So yeah, it’s safe to say I don’t like him.

BUT he’s still part of the story and still has a role to play in my fic, and I don’t bash character cause I don’t. So I’ll have to find a way to make him okay for me to write… We’ll see how I fare haha.

Sorry for the rant, seems like I had things to say on the matter. Thanks for asking though, I’m always ready to give a lengthy opinion on anything at any time :p

@enigmaris if i've gotten you mixed up with somebody else at tired-o'clock at night i apologize but

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