Who had the saddest Death, Hiruzen, Jiraiya or Asuma?

[Infinite Yaoi Emperor]

My issue with Asuma's death is that he wasn't properly built up before hand, he was just the one off character that Kishi killed because he felt that a good guy needed to die. He wasn't really made relevant to the story until that arc itself. I felt more for Shikamaru when he was grieving than when Asuma actually died.

The Thrid's death was a lot more tragic, but also not built up enough. Too much about his reltationship to Orochimaru was revealed in the actual scene itself, and that's just not effective storytelling. Regardless, his death still hit me hard, and he remains one of my favorite characters. That fight is also amongst the best in the series, in my opinion. The bit with the reincarnated Hokage was beautifully done.

Jiraiya's death is what the Thrid's death and Asuma's death should have been, and it was the perfect set up for Naruto to conquer Pain. Though I think that the actual conclusion the Pain fight was bullshit, that doesn't make the death itself any less tragic, if anything the lack of real closure makes it more tragic, though more on a "What the **** are you doing Kishi?" level than a storytelling level.

Itachi's death precedes itself and needs to explanation.

 

[AlastorNazura17]

Jiraiya's death for me.

Didn't care too much about Asuma, or Hiruzen.

Itachi's was sad though; but Jiraiya's death definitely made me cry.

 

[senjuBankai]

Kushina stomps everyone.!!

 

[Dirty Samoan]

The Pervy Sannin by far, Too much emotions and the backbone of the story and main character was evident.

 

[BLAZE]

can't say
i currently laugh at hype-hiruzen death though

 

[Fluffyman]

Out of these, Jiraiya.

Having followed Naruto from the start it was pretty touching and he had beautiful last words.
Just watch this vid

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(first half is great but editing sadly gets sloppy after that).

 

[sasukesworld]

Itachi has the saddest...

 

[Kyuurama]

Jiraiya's was sad for me, especially since he used to be my favorite character... :NO:

 

[jondaimederp]

for me its asuma coz it just came out of nowhere jman there were so many signs that he MIGHT die against the leader of the akatsuki so I didn't feel that much bad for him asuma though and shikamaru avenging him ......so sad

 

[WreckRolled]

hiruzen, real good guy

 

[madarasasuke5]

Dat shld be J-man.

 

[AllHailKurama]

Definitely Jiraiya, especially because he was on of my favorites. I loved the way he cared about Naruto. Ironically, that's one of the reasons I didn't like Hiruzen. It seemed like he never really cared much about Naruto. He gave him an apartment and let him become a ninja, but other than that, he basically stood around and let the villagers torture Naruto in a sense. His death wasn't as sad to me because of that.

Asuma's death was also sad, as we're both of Itachi's.