Gama-chan
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| Name | |
| Kanji | ガマちゃん |
| Rōmaji | Gama-chan |
| Literal English | Toad-chan |
| English TV | Froggy |
| Debut | |
| Manga | Chapter #150 |
| Anime | Naruto Episode #86 |
| Game | Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations |
| Appears in | Anime, Manga and Game |
Gama-chan (ガマちゃん, Gama-chan; English TV "Froggy") is Naruto Uzumaki's toad shaped wallet. Gama-chan's presence and brief appearances in the series are used for comic relief. Naruto cares for "Gama-chan" and refers to it as if it were a pet, saying that it's happy when it's fat and full of money. He gets disappointed and indignant whenever Jiraiya's jaunts out for "research" would end up with Naruto broke, and Gama-chan emaciated.
When Tsunade made a bet with Naruto on whether he could master the Rasengan in a week, she took a money-filled Gama-chan as his part of the wager.
Trivia
- During the Three-Tails Arc, when Naruto asksKonohamaru to buy snacks for Gamatatsu andGamakichi, Gama-chan's eyes lack the white border around them.
- On the underside of Gama-chan, a white strip can be seen. The strip roughly says Naruto's Wallet (なるとさいふ, Naruto Saifu).
- It might be based on the Chan Chu, the Lucky Money Toad, a Chinese symbol of prosperity depicted as a frog sitting on top of a pile of coins with a coin in its mouth.
- The Japanese word for frog, "kaeru", is a homonym that means "return / to return". It is considered lucky in Japanese culture to keep a frog in wallets (in whatever form, whether as figurines or keychains, etc.) for money to come back when it is spent.
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