---criticism of jiraiya beyond this point, stop here if you don’t want to see it---
god i got to the part of naruto where jiraiya’s introduced and it takes everything i FUCKING have to not skip these episodes. this show INSTANTLY became so much less fun when he showed up. I hate that he’s probably gonna be recurring a bunch now. jiraiya’s pervert shit just ISN’T FUNNY, it’s genuinely so fucking creepy, especially whenever it’s aimed at naruto’s sexy jutsu transformation. if this gets me branded a “sensitive sjw” or some shit i don’t even care, i was at least able to tolerate the perverted nonsense in naruto before this happened. on top of that, he basically makes naruto waste like three weeks out of the month he has to train, the only real benefits of that initial chunk of time being that jiraiya fixed naruto’s seal (which was an immediate benefit anyway) and whatever incidental improvement naruto made in stamina terms by continually pushing his chakra supply to the limit. and he’s like, so frequently being mean to naruto throughout this process, calling him stupid and talentless and yelling at him??? and that’s also supposed to be “funny” but it’s just NOT. Enough goddamn people have been mean to Naruto already, it just makes me want to fucking kick Jiraiya in his decrepit, shrivelled ballsack. Dude, he’s a fucking child, it’s not his fault your training sucked when he was clearly trying his damnedest every day? and FINALLY, this technique isn’t even all that feasible for the chuunin exams, aka, the most relevant and pressing thing naruto is supposed to be training for. Even if Naruto used it for that, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as narratively satisfying as him relying on his own strength. I get that for the most part, Jiraiya wants him to access the Nine-Tails chakra through doing this stuff, but even so, I’d much rather Naruto actually learns how to do more with his own power first before he’s intentionally extracting power from a fucking demon that hates him. all in all, yes, I KNOW jiraiya’s supposed to get better and cooler and i KNOW he’s supposed to be really powerful and die at some point in shippuden and it’s supposed to be Real Sad or whatever, but for the time being i honestly hate him and find him difficult to watch.
