Naruto Creator Kishimoto Finally Explains Jiraiya’s Death & The Reason Behind It!

Hey guys! How’s it going on? Are you guys keeping up with the Boruto anime? I am honestly getting so bored in this Mitsuki retrieval arc. Now I don’t feel so excited to watch it rather now it feels like it’s my duty to stay updated. Well, we did get one good fight and some good Sarada scenes so I was happy about that. Still, I wish they could just end this Mitsuki Arc as soon as possible and then start the Naruto Shinden part.

If you’re unaware about the Naruto Shinden anime adaptation, let me remind you that the Shinden novels are being animated and would go on for 3 weeks starting February. Well, that’s something to look forward to after all these Boruto episodes. Well, leaving that aside, I am sure most of you miss Pervy Sage right? I mean Jiraiya, cmon. Jiraiya was one character everyone liked. He was really a father figure to Naruto. He was the best.

I really cried when Jiraiya was sinking down into the depths of the sea and was thinking about Naruto. It really hurts when your favorite character is defeated and you have to part ways with him/her but Jiraiya was different. We have seen so many anime deaths but I still think Jiraiya’s death is one of the saddest deaths if not the saddest. Well, it seems like now Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto is ready to talk about his death and the reason behind it.

I am a little late on this but it seems like there were some scans released on twitter which covered the interview with Kishimoto where he talked about the Pain arc and about Jiraiya’s death. He even mentioned that this arc was ironically the most painful arc according to him. “Looking back on the Naruto series, the part he described as ‘Painful’ was the Pain story arc,” the piece writes. Now, let’s get into the Jiraiya part now –

“Sasuke had his family killed, so he has revenge in his heart. But Naruto didn’t have that experience. There’s nothing that someone not in the same position can say that’s convincing,” Kishimoto explains. “The things Naruto said just didn’t ring true to Sasuke. But later, when Naruto lost Jiraiya, a father-like figure to him, he understood Sasuke’s position for the first time. From there, what would Naruto do…?”

This loss was a big one for Naruto but at the same time, it helped him grow independent and could relate to Sasuke on a new level. As the creator, Kishimoto says that Jiraiya’s death was objectively a price for Naruto’s growth. How long would he stick with Jiraiya and depend on him? Well, it’s up to us, the fans to decide whether this price was worth paying or not. I think it was a splendid scene but I would like them to meet one last time.

We have seen many deaths in Naruto and most of the times, we see the characters being revived like Kakashi, or while during Edo Tensei but we haven’t seen Jiraiya even once. Yes, flashbacks are there but Naruto and Jiraiya never had the chance to talk one last time or even had the opportunity to meet each other, see each other’s faces and most important of all, seeing Naruto as a Hokage. That really hurts.