Summons and Demons

I was just wandering if there could possibly be ties between the summons and demons in Naruto? It's obvious both types of creatures dont live in the same planes of existence as humans (Gamabunta saying something about it being nice being summoned back into the real world or something when Naruto first calls on him)

Could the summons be like a step below the animal demons and if they perform a task or live long enough get raised, or evolve into demons. Weak ones of course since it seems the older a demon is the more powerful it becomes (Kyubi and its 9 tails, each signifying a hundred years of life I think).

This is complete speculation with nothing whatsoever to back it up but it does maybe seem feasible (to me anyway [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] )

So what are your thoughts?

i have no idea about this actually maybe..

Never mentioned about in the anime. However I hope they actually exist in the real world, but maybe some very very far away place. So we'll probably have a nice arc, where Naruto journey's into the mountains to search for some demon, and asks it to join him kinda thingy. That would be cool.

you know these demons they arent unique for naruto, they are borrowed from japanese mythology also jiraiya, tsunade and orochiamru are also borrowed from some sort of japanese culture thingy.

they are borrowed from a story, in which jiraiya and tsunade are husband and wife, and orochimaru is some wierd sorceror type guy thingy....

I've read a bit about the background of nine tails and Gaara's racoon demon but i didnt know that Jiraiya and co were from Japanese culture

there are a lot of referens of japanese mythology in Naruto. if u look around for some japanese mythology sites and compare some of the stories to Naruto u can find a lot of story likenesses.

yea there a lot of refrences to mythology as well as refrences to modern japanese landmarks. there is a great naruto bridge which lies over the uzumaki straight which is known for its whirlpools.

the more you know... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

Yeah Jiraiya is a part of ninja lore as being a toad sage. If go out and look you can find a laot of books on ninja mythology, japanese myth's legands, etc.

and i;m pretty sure that i've read about the nine-tail fox somewhere... somewhere.......

The folk lore behind a nine tle fox is for every hundred years it lives it's gains a tale, so a fox with nine tails is a thousand years old, at this point the fox changes color's to either silver, white or gold. The demon fox in Naruto is based on the Koren fox spirit which are depicted as evil monsters. In Japanese mythology fox's are Benevolant or Malevolent creatures. So yeah Naruto uses alot of Asian folk lore as sorce to draw from.

in naruto kyuubi/naruto have a lot of qualities from different legends, for example like lefty said kyuubi seems to be more based on korean fox mythology but naruto has many trickster like qualities (the many pranks) which are representations of a more traditional japanese kitsune.

i don't think that they can just ask a random demon from the mountains to join them. sounds like pokemon or something.

wow..the more reasons to enjoy naruto i guess[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]