Gamabunta

Gamabunta is one of the largest summons in the series, comparable in size to a tailed beast. He is coloured a dull, rusty red, but around his eyes and on his lips and chest are brighter red markings. Over his left eye, he received a scar at some point in the past; the scar was not present in manga flashbacks to Jiraiya's training with the toads, though was in the anime's adaptation of the same scene. His tongue has a series of stud-like piercings on both the upper and lower side. He often wears a large blue happi vest that has the kanji 蝦 (ebi) on the back, and always carries a massive dosu blade at his hip. He also carries a large kiseru pipe which he often smokes. Gamabunta's size is depicted inconsistently throughout the series. In Part I he towers above forests and was also comparable in size to Shukaku, yet in Part II he varies between his Part I size and being no bigger than a large building like the Academy.

At some point in time when Gamabunta was younger, Jiraiya, in the hopes of finding the animal he was affiliated to naturally, reverse summoned himself to Mount Myōboku where he tossed away a snake that Gamabunta was squaring off against. Later, after the young man began training with the toads, Gamabunta was the one to tell him that the Great Toad Sage was looking for him in order to bestow a prophecy upon him. Gamabunta was later summoned by Jiraiya, alongside Manda and Katsuyu, during the Second Shinobi World War. During Tobi's invasion of Konohagakure in his bid to acquire the Nine-Tails, Minato summoned Gamabunta using the Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique right on top of the fox who was preparing a Tailed Beast Ball. Minato then asked Gamabunta to hold the Nine-Tails down while he transported it outside of the village using his Flying Thunder God Technique. Though Gamabunta complained that not even he could hold the fox down for very long, he was successful in doing so until Minato teleported it away.