Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-1894786-20141205054732

CoolDudeAl wrote: DarKingdomHearts wrote: The thing he means is about the tale Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari. They can easily take that folklore and incorperate it into Once. The only thing they would take from Naruto is their personalities a bit, as they are good personalities for characters. And probably have similar clothing. Characters like Naruto himself, Kakashi, Sasuke etc. wouldn't appear because they aren't from any tales. But see, that's the thing about rights, as soon as you can say "Hey that looks like Jiraya from Naruto", whoever owns Naruto can sue you, if you haven't paid to use that Jiraya. Like I said, it's a legal nightmare. And Eastern folklore is not well known to a general US audience (which is a shame, but it is what it is). So besides Mulan, the only Eastern story I could see being adapted onto Once is Journey to the West, and even that's a big if. I also feel we won't get any African stories for the same reason, they are not well known to a general US audience. But then Journey to the West would cause Westerners to cry copy cat on Dragon Ball, which is a manga adaptation of JttW, with Goku being based off of Son Goku, the monkey king. And either way, if they could get the permissions from Masashi Kishimoto to use his versions of Jaraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade, I think it could be an awesome translation to the small screen. I definitely don't think any other characters should be brought on. Maybe Kurama (the 9-tailed fox) and Naruto himself (although that might be stretching it a bit...).