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7	[[caption-width-right:350: The original [[Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger pop-cultured ninja]] (since 1988).]]
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9	''Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya'' ("World Ninja War Jiraiya"), also known as ''Ninja Olympiad'', is the seventh ''Series/MetalHeroes'' series.
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11	Rather than being a RidiculouslyHumanRobot or a man in a PowerArmor, Jiraiya (real name Tōha Yamaji) is an elite ninja warrior from the Togakure style of Ninpō. His mentor and foster father Tetsuzan Yamaji, the 34th Grandmaster of the Togakure School, has trained him for the day the ancient Yōma Clan will return. Sure enough, the clan, led by Oninin Dokusai, arise with their army of evildoers in order to seize [[MacGuffin Pako]], a mysterious treasure which came from outer space over 2000 years ago which is said to have power comparable to the Sun. With the help of his family, and an army of international ninja heroes, Jiraiya must stand tall against the evil ones.
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13	Although the series was not adapted into either ''Series/VRTroopers'' or ''Series/BigBadBeetleborgs'', Jiraiya has been adapted as Sheriff Skyfire in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel''. It's also available in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86b-BFpAfk its original form on Toei's Tokusatsu World channel]] on [=YouTube=].
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15	!!Recurring ''Metal Hero'' tropes include:
16	* ActionGirl: Emiha, Reiha and Yumeha, who even form a PowerTrio in episode 32. Benikiba is a DarkActionGirl.
17	* CoolCar: Jiraiya's main vehicle, the Black Saber, is a black [=Z31-model Nissan 300ZX=]
18	* HumongousMecha: Jiraishin, which makes its debut in Episode 34-35.
19	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "''Togakure-ryū Seitō, Jiraiya!''" ("Disciple of the Togakure school, Jiraiya!")
20	* TransformationSequence: Mostly averted. If Toha has to don the armor during the fight, the scene will do a quick cut between him and Jiraiya (one particularly funny case is in episode 30, when Benikiba is fighting Toha; she first pushes him offscreen, and he comes back onscreen less than a second later in the Jiraiya armor). In cases it is shown, it's only a brief sequence. And rather unusually for toku, instead of using a TransformationTrinket to access his suit or some sort of external/internal technique (like the previous Metal Hero, Metalder becoming angered enough to activate his robotic form, or the various Space Sheriffs having their suit teleported onto them from their ship), he armors up completely manually, the sequence showing him locking bits of his armor into place (with the visor saved for last).
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22	!!''Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya'' features examples of the following tropes:
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24	* ActorAllusion: Episode 27 (the 300th episode of the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' franchise overall) sees a character played by Creator/KenjiOhba challenging Toha for the Jiraiya suit. So we have the first Metal Hero facing off against the seventh Metal Hero.
25	* AmericansAreCowboys: Rainin Wild, who is Billy the Kid's descendant and a cowboy-themed Ninja.
26	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Kei and Manabu, who leave Toha to do most of the housework and enjoy teasing him. Kei eventually grows out of it, while Manabu continues to be annoying.
27	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The Pako leaves Earth at the end of the series to ensure that the Dark Star aliens won't come to Earth in pursuit of it.]]
28	* BadassBiker: Mafūba, a cyborg ninja who rides around on a motorcycle.
29	* BackForTheFinale: A number of World Ninjas Toha has helped throughout the series, including [[spoiler:Baron Owl, Wild, Mafuuba and Rocket Man]] return in the finale to assist Toha in fighting the Yoma. On the other end, [[spoiler:Madam Spider revives just about almost every evil World Ninja to fight Toha and his companions in the penultimate episode.]]
30	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Soon after being killed, Kensuke Onimura and Kazumi Mimura are revived by the power of Jiraishin, enabling them to go off and live in peace.]]
31	* BigBadEnsemble: Initially Dokusai and the Yoma Clan are the main foes Jiraiya has to contend with, though in the second half Space Ninja Demost joins the roster of people looking to claim the Pako.
32	* BreakTheHaughty: Jiraiya gets his "fighting spirit" taken away by Chang Kung-Fu in Episode 3, but comes back in same episode.
33	* TheBully: Episode 22 features a group of schoolgirls bullying Kei's new friend. After Kei beats them up, they [[EvilIsPetty team up with the Yoma Clan]] to get revenge.
34	* CaptainEthnic: Some of the various World Ninjas (at least, the ones who are {{McNinja}}s).
35	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[spoiler: Benikiba and Retsukiba drop out fighting after Emiha and Manabu have discovered their trick of hiding, leaving his swords and running]].
36	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Played around in an episode where a rival warrior named Yajiro Iyo (played by Kenji Oba) takes the Jiraiya suit away from Toha after defeating him. Toha is forced to fight Iyo without his suit to get it back.
37	* CoolOldGuy: Tetsuzan has his moments.
38	** Toha himself, 30 years later, to the ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger''.
39	* CosmicHorrorReveal: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the final three episodes that the Pako was originally sent to Earth by a race of StarfishAliens to conquer it, and that now the alien race behind it is looking to destroy Earth to punish it for deserting its mission.]]
40	* DeceptiveDisciple: Kuroi Ibara in Episode 30 betrayed his master's teaching in order to become a criminal.
41	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Many of the World Ninjas start off fighting Jiraiya, only to join his side after being beaten by him.
42	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The title of Episode 6 is "Nazo no Nazo wa Nazonazo?!", which roughly translates to "The Mysterious Mystery is Mysteriously Mysterious?!"
43	%%* DirtyCoward: The Youma quite frequently, so as some of the world ninjas.
44	* DistaffCounterpart: Tōha's foster sister, Kei, has her own heroic alter-ego under the guise of Himenin Emiha, who wears white armor, lets her hair hang loose beneath the helmet, and [[ShowSomeLeg has her legs showing]].
45	* DubNameChange: The Brazilian dub had a few of them, going from smaller stuff (like Retsuga for Retsukiba, which can be chalked up to AlternateCharacterReading) to some names that seem really weird if you've seen the show in the original Japanese first (like Mafūba's name changing to Storm and Yumeha being called... Agnes).
46	* EvilVsEvil: The villains of this show are a lot less unified than in previous seasons, and occasionally come to blows with each other.
47	* TheFaceless: Dokusai [[spoiler:-- literally. He has no face under his helmet, just a blank void.]]
48	* {{Fanservice}}: Benikiba's slinky red dress in episode 22.
49	* FlyingFace: One of attacks from Demost is to detach his head and have it fly around shooting lasers.
50	* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Episode 32 sees the three recurring female ninjas of the series - Emiha, Reiha and Yumeha - all teaming up to investigate strange happenings in a girls dormitory.
51	* GratuitousEnglish: Jōnin Baron Owl, Bakunin Rocket Man and Rainin Wild. Practically any character who is supposed to be American or English.
52	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Baron Owl, Haburamu, Kinin Reiha, Yanin Spiker, Vermillion Tokage, Rainin Wild, Kazenin Mafuba, Kaminin Oruha, Rocket Man, Oruha, Alamsa, Yumeha, Special Ninja Team]]. Granted, all of these were the results of successive instances of LetsYouAndHimFight.
53	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jiraiya have to use jikou shinkuken to powers Jiraishin up enough to leave the Earth with Pako, losing both his main weapon and his mecha]]. However...
54	* HesBack: ...by ''Ninninger'', 30 years later, [[spoiler: Takaharu activating a new ninshuriken brings jikou shinkuken back to Toha permanently]].
55	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Even without accounting Jiraiya's bright red armor, Dokusai's son and [[TheDragon Dragon]] Retsukiba wears a quite unbelievable striped, magenta-and-black ninja suit.
56	* HumanAlien: [[spoiler:Toha and Reiha are descendants of the original Jiraya, an alien warrior who arrived on Earth thousands of years ago.]]
57	* HumblePie: Tetsuzan serves some of these everytime Toha feels slightly overconfident. Despite be more harsh with his adoptive son, [[EveryoneHasStandards the old ninja is not above of give some pieces of humbleness to his two other kids when they're slacking too much]].
58	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Wild's bullets can make ''curves'' in the air.
59	* KickTheDog: Chang Kung-Fu the Fire Ninja does this literally in Episode 4 when he kicks a dog in one of his first scenes.
60	* KilledOffForReal: Genchi Koshimura, Ninja Jane.
61	* LadyInRed: Benikba wears a sexy red dress as a disguise in episode 22.
62	* LaserGuidedKarma: The Youma are on the receiver part when they conquer some few wins. Applies to Kei and Manabu too, periodically.
63	* LegacyCharacter: Chang Kung-Fu, Makumba, Gyuma and Gamesh are all replaced by identically-dressed successors. Chang's and Makumba's successors in particular are their son and older brother respectively.
64	** Jiraiya himself gets one in the crossover movie for ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'', Toma Amagi. He's mostly a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Sharivan though, as opposed to his own character.
65	* LetsYouAndHimFight: And time a new World Ninja shows up, they will end up fighting Jiraiya. Some of these happen through prodding by the Yōma Clan, and thus, once everything is cleared up, they will join Jiraiya in fighting the bad guys.
66	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to its immediate predecessor ''Series/ChoujinkiMetalder''.
67	* MasterOfDisguise: Benikiba. While all the ninjas are capable of disguising themselves, Benikiba is the Yoma Clan ninja who most often does so.
68	** There's also Changing Ninja Parchis, who can disguise himself as someone simply by looking at them.
69	* McNinja: Most of the World Ninjas, who are ninjas that hail from countries outside Japan. Apparently the art of ninjitsu has traveled a lot.
70	* MeleeATrois: It's the Togakure-ryu vs the Yoma Clan vs the World Ninjas in a race to claim the Pako.
71	* MonsterOfTheWeek: The World Ninjas start off like this, but quite a few of them end up becoming recurring characters and not all of them are villains.
72	* MookMaker: A good number of the World Ninjas can summon their own {{Mooks}} in form of generic ninjas
73	* MsFanservice: Benikiba provides a of it the Fanservice this season, thanks to her propensity for disguises.
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75	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Given the World Ninja's theming of ninja + nationality + other motif, this is inevitable.
76	** Demost is an alien ninja.
77	** [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that Toha and Rei also descend from the aliens that brought Pako to Earth.]]
78	** Also, there's Gamesh, a cyborg ninja.
79	* OddballInTheSeries: Oh yes. Rather than be PoweredArmor, the Jiraiya suit is something Toha has to physically put on. Instead of a military or police theme, it's ninjas and most of the opponents Jiraiya faces are humans with unique abilities rather than literal monsters.
80	* PutOnABus: Toppa leaves Japan after Episode 24 for an overseas assignment.
81	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After being tricked by Demost into leading Toha into a trap, Treasure Ninja Jane gives up her own life to blow an escape hole for Toha.]]
82	* RoguesGallery: While the Yoma are initially Jiraiya's main enemies, he soon amasses a roster of other recurring foes including Sound Ninja Uha, Makumba, Parchis, Gamesh, Gyuma and Demost.
83	* SpiritualSuccessor: Loosely based on ''Manga/KamenNoNinjaAkakage'', but set in [[SettingUpdate modern times]].
84	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Jiraiya's theme song usually plays right as he's about to defeat the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Ninja of the Week]].
85	* TheUnFavorite: Toha feels that Tetsuzan always favors Kei and Manabu over him, since he's adoptive. It turns out that, by ''Ninninger'', more than 20 years later, it's actually Toha who becomes the official heir of the Togakure Style, though.
86	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Basically, this is Jiraiya's CatchPhrase.
87	* UnluckyEverydude: Toha have shades of this. He's primarily the bread winner of the house, taking odd jobs to keep things going at home, since the dojo is short of students, and still have to take missions as Jiraiya. Add to that he '''never''' manages get the girl: [[spoiler:Princess Maya went back to her country after their date, Reiha is revealed to be Toha's cousin, Yumeha was only an acquaintance and Jane died]]. Basically, the niponic Peter Parker, even more than the [[Series/SpiderManJapan actual niponic Peter Parker]].
88	* VillainExitStageLeft: Very often, when things start going badly for the Yōma Clan (such as when the World Ninja of the Week that they had fooled into fighting Jiraiya realizes the deception and turns on them), they drop whatever they're doing and beat a hasty retreat.

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