Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26061639-20150131220909/@comment-3568954-20150210163150

Iar Sensei wrote: I don't know about Toads. That's pretty farfetched. Completely different pigmintations from Jiraiya, Minato and Naruto. Not to mentions the Toads stated that Jiraiya and Naruto were the only humans to use Sage Mode in a balanced state, so Minato was an asspull, or was personally taught (most likely the former.) Even passively absorbing, Jiraiya did that with a third party in Shima and Fukasaku. There would have to be ALOT Kishi isn't telling us. the toats never once said jiraiya and naruto were the only humans to use sage mode in a balanced state. i do not remember that ever being said. also just because they have a different sage mode appearance doesn't mean anything because hashirama also can passively absorb natural energy when he is in sage mode. he uses it with some sage mode seal type thing