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Tsunade
Tsunade
, featured in the
Japanese folktale
Jiraiya
Gōketsu Monogatari
, was the
classmate
of the
ninja
Jiraiya. She
mastered
slug
magic and was able to summon an enormous
snail
or turn into one.
Influences
on
fiction
In the
popular
manga
and
anime series
Naruto
, a
character
called Tsunade is the
Hokage
of
the village
where
Naruto Uzumaki
lives
. Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru
appear
as three
legendary
ninja known as the Sannin.
Naruto
'
s Tsunade can summon
slugs
into
battle
, up to and including Kaiju-sized
monsters
. This summoning
ability
is predicated on Tsunade having
established
a blood-contract with all slug
species
. Jiraiya and Orochimaru can also summon
toads
and snakes, and Orochimaru is also capable of
transforming
into a snake.
