Why do you like Jiraiya?

[Chie]

Just a question. Please, no character bashing since that's immature. Answer if you like him (or don't I suppose).

 

[-immortal-]

Because he is most likely just a chill person and funny, cant realy hate em

 

[Vapid]

I liked him. Why? Because he gave us this:

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[Ornstein the DragonSlayer]

He was funny and just generally likable

 

[Tennis Robot]

He is like the middle ground between (early part 2) Naruto and Minato

That's a nice place to be lol.

 

[I'm stupid real stupid]

I like him caz he scared the living day lights out of Itachi and Kisame. And he is also funny

 

[Transcendence]

There's a lot to like about him. To me he wasn't just one of those happy go lucky easy to like characters who are always happy about everything and try to project it towards everyone. It seems typical of the ones on the Yang side of the parallel (Naruto/Sasuke, Obito/Kakashi, Hashirama/Madara) to be extremely outgoing and not being entirely realistic about things going on, but Jiraiya was... different. A by-product of his own power that he developed for the most part on his own besides inheriting his student's jutsu. Jiraiya was perverted, happy, calm and everything in between. But he was realistic. And when you combine his light hearted characteristics with his realistic approach to the serious things in the manga, he's extremely easy to like. At the time I'm writing this I think I'm convincing myself to put Jiraiya in my top 5 for favourites at this point.

 

[super yang]

@Vapid, I meant to ''like'' your post

OT: becuz hes jiraiya

 

[Demonic.]

He taught Naruto how to be a man, and made him strong.

 

[Venomous Cobra]

He shared the icecream with naruto

 

[Mellow]

I like him caz he scared the living day lights out of Itachi and Kisame. And he is also funny

itachi scared the world. U_U jman didn't scare shit

 

[Chie]

I like him caz he scared the living day lights out of Itachi and Kisame. And he is also funny

@bold-So for fanfic reasons? Sir, please don't attempt to rustle any jimmies in this thread.

Anything else, besides humor for you though?

itachi scared the world. U_U jman didn't scare shit

Let's not get this thread off-topic, now.

It's strictly about J-man. Thank you. U_U

 

[NineSNS]

Powerful, funny, and a healthy level of perversion.

Had possibly the best character death in the series.

 

[loj]

Couse he is awesome,funny and a calm guy. U just can't hate that guy.

I can see myself in him so...that's prob the main reason hehehe

 

[Seventh Sama]

There's a lot to like about him. To me he wasn't just one of those happy go lucky easy to like characters who are always happy about everything and try to project it towards everyone. It seems typical of the ones on the Yang side of the parallel (Naruto/Sasuke, Obito/Kakashi, Hashirama/Madara) to be extremely outgoing and not being entirely realistic about things going on, but Jiraiya was... different. A by-product of his own power that he developed for the most part on his own besides inheriting his student's jutsu. Jiraiya was perverted, happy, calm and everything in between. But he was realistic. And when you combine his light hearted characteristics with his realistic approach to the serious things in the manga, he's extremely easy to like. At the time I'm writing this I think I'm convincing myself to put Jiraiya in my top 5 for favourites at this point.

^This explains it nicely.

 

[Neji Hyūga2]

I thought he was hilarious! Was super strong too and I liked how he taught Naruto a fair share of techniques. On top of that he was a lot smarter than he looked. Also this video of him made me cry

[video=youtube;YpzSf91nC1k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzSf91nC1k[/video]​

 

[Parrish]

I don't, I dislike his character.

 

[Chie]

I don't, I dislike his character.

Well, he has haters just as any other character does. They just aren't as vocal and aggressive as ones other characters have. Which is how people get the impression that he doesn't have an "anti" fandom... when in reality he does and it's a sizeable amount of people actually.

 

[The8thGateBeast]

Because he's not Orochimaru.

 

[Kamui Sama]

There's a lot to like about him. To me he wasn't just one of those happy go lucky easy to like characters who are always happy about everything and try to project it towards everyone. It seems typical of the ones on the Yang side of the parallel (Naruto/Sasuke, Obito/Kakashi, Hashirama/Madara) to be extremely outgoing and not being entirely realistic about things going on, but Jiraiya was... different. A by-product of his own power that he developed for the most part on his own besides inheriting his student's jutsu. Jiraiya was perverted, happy, calm and everything in between. But he was realistic. And when you combine his light hearted characteristics with his realistic approach to the serious things in the manga, he's extremely easy to like. At the time I'm writing this I think I'm convincing myself to put Jiraiya in my top 5 for favourites at this point.

damn, you summed it up pretty well. He violated the three taboos of a shinobi which would make most people look like complete scumbags but everyone he encountered looked up to him with a certain respect.