himitsusentaiblog:lunaticobscurity:ultramanginga: god i love sentai fire-breathing giant frogs are
himitsusentaiblog:lunaticobscurity: ultramanginga: god i love sentai fire-breathing giant frogs are a long-standing ninja association! i can’t remember why, though~ It had to do with the legendary Ninja Jiraiya and his association with a gigantic frog/toad. He as also known to use shape-shifting magic to turn himself into a gigantic amphibian. His tale is Chronicled in Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語) which became popularized as a serialized novel in the 19th Century.A great version was in the 1966 Tokusatsu film Kairyū Daikessen a.k.a. The Magic Serpent which featured a climactic battle between Jiraiya as a fire-breathing, horned toad and his arch-enemy Orochimaru who transformed into a dragon. This is also why Jiraiya in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger has a frog for a mecha. -- source link