Jiraiya look-alike. Interesting, eh?

It’s that time again! Recap of past deaths in Naruto manga! This time it’s Jiraiya, the J-man!

So how did Jiraiya die?

Jiraiya was fighting with pein and he was doing pretty well being a sannin, and he "killed" like three of pein’s bodies. Though, he didn’t realize that they can’t be killed because they’re like zombies. So these bodies of Pein got up and took one of his arms off so you can tell he was in serious trouble. Anyway he then ran away and they fought with genjutsus and frog powers, but jiraiya just couldn’t handle all the six bodies of pein coming at him at once so he got overwhelmed and died. Before he died he realized the secret behind Pein’s technique at the last minute and sent that information back to Konoha with his summoned frog.

It was actually when Jiraiya was left there to die, and Jaraiya momentarily passed out, he recalled the day the Fourth Hokage and Kushina had told him they were going to name their son after the main character in Jaraiya’s book, which was "Naruto". He brought himself back with willpower, and used his final breath sending a message on the back of a toad to Konoha and to Tsunade.

He then died sinking into the water of the Hidden Rain Village.