>>26810878Your refutation is definitely the most thought out, thorough, and interesting one in the thread so far. However, there is a prominent fallacy within your main argument. I will be brief- regard the Jiraya to its context in folklore and Japanese literature, following the character it generally depicted and its relation towards traditional Japanese culture. In concept, the attempts made by the designers to pay tribute to a notable icon is a noble and acceptable one. But if we consider the Zeitgeist and world-outlook of the past, and try to apply it to a modern- nay, cosmopolitan view of the world, and if we consider the these anarchical and materialistic roots in which Greninja- not the inspiration, but the entity itself- springs from, the matter of the legend appears to be appropriated, subjugated, or usurped from its natural calling, atmosphere, and influence, to be bonded to the superficial people and times of present.
If we regard the people and their ability to accept a leader or an artist's concept or style of life, the mental soil of all its consumers had to be prepared, tilled, manured and broken up, in a manner calculated to enable it to accept and prove favourable to the said style or design. Not only that, but the logical attitude of mind which is favourable to the doctrine had also to be reared. As a direct result of the rise in profit at all costs, and the restrictive, abstinence-preaching thinking of the 1600's, spreading its corrupt and sullied soil over to China and Japan in time, thus preparing the dry and infertile soil, that any fruit that stems from it can only regard this purely emotional and surface level thinking.
Thus Greninja, if we really are to imply its personality rooted in the Jiraya, is not a product of the fertile mental and spiritual soil that bore the Jiraya and likewise life-affirming legends and tales.