Gamabunta

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   Chief of Mount MyōbokuDebut Arc · Konoha Crush & Tsunade Search

   The boss of the toads

   Gamabunta sits at the head of the toad summons, the one who answers when a contract-holder calls for the boss. Mountainous, armed, and short-tempered, he is the standard every other toad is measured against.

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   Jiraiya's partner

   The toad and the Sannin

   Jiraiya is the summoner Gamabunta fought beside the longest. Their oil-and-fire combinations turned the boss toad into one of the most dangerous weapons either of them could bring to a battlefield.

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   The night of the Nine-Tails

   Pinning the fox

   On the night Naruto was born, Minato dropped Gamabunta straight onto the rampaging Nine-Tails to hold it down. The toad bought the seconds Minato needed to teleport the beast clear of the village.

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   "I don't take orders from brats"

   Refusing the boy

   When Naruto first manages to summon him at full size, Gamabunta refuses to lift a finger for him. He has never let a human ride his head, and he is not about to start for a loud genin who can barely hold the contract.

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   Against the One-Tail

   Riding into the sand

   Naruto clings to his head as the two face Gaara's fully transformed Shukaku. Gamabunta's tantō takes the sand beast's arm, and a combination transformation into the Nine-Tails lets them pin it long enough to wake Gaara inside.

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   A drink, someday

   Won over at last

   When his son Gamakichi tells him the boy saved his life, Gamabunta finally accepts Naruto as one of his own. He promises that once the kid is grown, the two of them will share a drink.

Gamabunta does not fight with a deep library of jutsu. His power is scale and will: a body the size of a hill, a short sword that can carve a tailed beast, and a mouth that spits oil and water his summoners turn into fire and pressure. What makes him deadly is less variety than weight — almost nothing he lands on stays standing.

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• Who is Gamabunta?+

  Gamabunta is the Chief Toad of Mount Myōboku, the boss of the toad summons. A mountain-sized toad who fights with a giant tantō, he is the summon of Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Naruto Uzumaki.
• Who can summon Gamabunta?+

  Three summoners share the bond across the series: Jiraiya, who fought beside him longest; Minato Namikaze, who called him the night of the Nine-Tails; and Naruto Uzumaki, the last to hold the toad contract.
• What is Gamabunta's weapon?+

  He carries a giant tantō, a short sword scaled to his enormous size. He wields it like a cleaver — it was this blade that sliced the arm off Gaara's transformed Shukaku.
• Did Gamabunta fight Shukaku?+

  Yes. During the Konoha Crush, Naruto summoned Gamabunta to face Gaara's fully transformed One-Tail. The toad's blade and a combination transformation into the Nine-Tails let them pin Shukaku long enough to wake Gaara.
• Who are Gamabunta's children?+

  Gamabunta has two sons, both toad summons in their own right: Gamakichi, the eldest, and Gamatatsu, his carefree younger brother. Naruto's rescue of Gamakichi is what won Gamabunta's respect.
• Has Gamabunta been a Narutodle answer?+

  Gamabunta is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date he was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Gamabunta in Narutodle?+

  Gamabunta is a summon, so his Village and Ninja Rank both read None, with no clan, no Kekkei Genkai, and an empty Attributes column. A single Water nature and Ninjutsu-only jutsu type narrow him down fast.