AnimeGirlMika
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 Awesome Naruto Factoid!
I just learned, by way of my Shinto mailing list, that a big part of Naruto was actually based on a kabuki play! There are many smaller things to be learned from this and they are listed below:
The play itself is called Jiraiya Goraketsu Monogatari. So firstly, we see where Jiraiya's name was derived!!
Here is a quote from the mailing list:
I went to Kabuki today featuring an evil man who transformed himself into a snake. The two heroes transformed themselves into a frog and a sea-slug!
Obviously, the snake, frog and sea-slug are in reference to at least Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura, respectively, as they are all three featured early on in the manga on chapter cover-pages interacting with those animals. On top of that, the three animals are also representative of Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade, also respectively, as well.
I read that this particular play is relatively unknown. I am assuming that this influence on Naruto was from the near-begining, judging from those cover-pages. But I also wonder, now, how many other things are hidden within Naruto's general being...
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3/12/2005, 12:29 am
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
oh ya thats so cool, i knew that jiraiya and orochimaru came from japanese mythology but i didn't know they came from a kabuki play. if you go to www.narutofever.com and look under all the stuff in the "scroll house" category they have a lot of info on all the references in naruto to japanese mythology its pretty interesting.
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3/12/2005, 1:25 pm
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AnimeGirlMika
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
Welll....that only really applies to the US 
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3/13/2005, 10:42 am
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
true, true
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3/13/2005, 12:57 pm
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
How so? DBZ and Naruto was/is VERY popluar in Japan.
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3/14/2005, 4:36 pm
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AnimeGirlMika
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
But they are/were the number one most popular animes in America. I'd say the two most known here...
In Japan there are tons of popular anime!
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3/14/2005, 8:47 pm
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Re: Awesome Naruto Factoid!
Lupin III, Gundam, One Piece, and many others that have way more popularity in Japan than here.
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