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Originally posted by: animemaster
according to this webpage,

The Kanji on êe_ (Jiraiya)s forehead is ¹ Abura, meaning oil.
Its not because hes oily middle age man. Its because hes fÇÙº (Gama Sennin).
In Japan, fÇn¹ (Gama no Abura, oil of a toad) was used as medicine. Dont ask me if it was really oil of a toad. But it was supposed to be a good medicine for scratches, cuts and other things.

Ok, I may start to sound pushy, but I just remembered that there are tons of frogs in Spirited Away. Frog statues and the male workers are frogs. And also the women workers are slugs (Tsunade slug magic).
I don't think Naruto's Jiraiya has a *direct* relation with that movie, I said that more like kidding...but
makes sense that both in the movie and in Jiraiya, there's this idea of frog magic/cure and likely this is also related to bathhouses, since baths also have a healing function...
In any case, both Jiraya and the background set up of SA, apparently come from the same Japanese mythological source.
Ok, won't say *anything* more about Spirited Away.