OH!? Please ♥ Mister Postman
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| Premiere date: | 22 March 2006 |
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| Episode Length: | 24.5 minutes |
| Episode Code: | 177 |
| Episode Airdate: |  22 March 2006 |
OH!? Please ♥ Mister Postman (Japanese: OH!?プリーズ♥ミスターポストマン - OH!? Purīzu ♥ Misutā Posutoman) is episode 177 of the anime series Naruto.
[edit] Plot
After another tiresome mission, Naruto approaches the Hot Spring Village. Along the way, he saves a Courier Ninja 596-03 from falling off of a cliff. A Courier Ninja not only deliver parcels, they risk their lives doing so.
Naruto finds Jiraiya in the Hot Spring Village, awaiting the arrival of an Akatsuki member as well as struggling to finish his latest manuscript for Icha Icha Violence. Jiraiya makes the promise of training Naruto after he completes his manuscript. After making no progress at all and desperate for training and having accidentally knocked Jiriaya out with Harem no Jutsu, Naruto decides to help Jiraiya write his manuscript, which he then entrusts to a Courier Ninja.
When Jiraiya wakes up and realizes what Naruto has done, he immediately gets Naruto to get the manuscript back, since Jiraiya believes Naruto just doodled. They get the parcel from a courier ninja, but realizes that it got confused with a peace petition between the Fang and Claw countries. Thus, they have to chase down Courier Ninja 596-03, who has the Icha Icha manuscript, in order to prevent a war.
Using Rasengan to power their boat, they chase down Courier Ninja 596-03, but nothing can persuade him to stop, not even Harem no Jutsu. However, it turns out that the daimyo is actually an Icha Icha fan, and war was stopped after all. Jiraiya is irritated that his work is of the same quality as Naruto's doodles.
Naruto awakens in the morning to find that Jiriaya has vanished, leaving a note that Akatsuki is on the move. Naruto doesn't believe it for a second. The next scene confirms that Jiraiya is, in fact, fooling around with women.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode features Jiraiya having a full blown nose bleed; as compared to previous ones, where he only displayed a trickle of blood.
- This is the only episode so far where the ninja center fold jutsu shows Naruto as a girl in a bathing suit, whereas normally the girl is nude surrounded by smoke.
- This episode or its title may have been inspired by the Beatles song, "Please Mister Postman".
- The zip code 596-03 is a pun for "go-ku-ro-san" which briefly means "thanks so much". This phrase is often used to appreciate a postman's arrival, however, a slightly polite form of "go-ku-ro-sama" is used more frequently.
- The courier ninja speaks in an anachronistic way, addressing Naruto as Naruto-uji. "Uji" is an obsolete equivalent of the suffix "san".
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| Zig-zag Run! Chasing, being chased, and making a mistake | Encounter, The boy holding the name "Star" |
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