Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36300243-20180723092044/@comment-3523655-20180826174440

Tzao wrote: David Kibasennin wrote:

Now the question is: why do they want us to think it's Jiraiya?

Is that what the writers wants us to believe? Have KK been speculated in manga to be Jiraiya, or are you referring to fans who have a theory based on a few similarities? (A theory which they stick to despite a large amount of evidence/arguments against, which they seem to be ignoring or dismissing).

My guess is that KK turns out to be, if he has any relation to Jiraiya at all, that he's another former student we've never heard of, Jiraiya travelled for years so it's entirely likely that he taught others some of his tricks (Case in point the ame orphans).

Yeah, but you gotta admit, there are undeniable similarities between KK and Jiraiya, but enough "fair enough" differences to keep us guessing. So the only real explanation is that yeah, the writers want us to be speculating about Jiraiya, but it's obvs not gonna be him. I think that, on the contrary, we're gonna get more and more 'evidence' it is Jiraiya, to the point where it's undeniable, only to find out that it's not.