Talk:Fox Alistair/@comment-25353464-20150104035524/@comment-4010415-20150528080041

If that's why, I hope Valetino knows that the nine-tailed fox in Naruto was based on Japanese mythology and wasn't an original concept.

Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya are reference to a tale about Orochi, the eight-headed snake.

It's not uncommon for anime and manga to make reference to Japanese myths and folktales and Shinto religion.