Changes: Gama-chan

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This article is about Naruto's wallet. For the giant toad that resides at Mount Myōboku, see Gama.

Gama-chan (ガマちゃん, English TV: Froggy) is Naruto Uzumaki's toad shaped wallet. Gama-chan's presence and brief appearances in the series are used for comic relief. Naruto cares for "Gama-chan" and refers to it as if it were a pet, saying that it's happy when it's fat and full of money. He gets disappointed and indignant whenever Jiraiya's jaunts out for "research" would end up with Naruto broke, and Gama-chan emaciated.

When Tsunade made a bet with Naruto on whether he could master the Rasengan in a week, she took a money-filled Gama-chan as his part of the wager.

Trivia

During the Three-Tails Arc, when Naruto asks Konohamaru to buy snacks for Gamatatsu and Gamakichi, Gama-chan's eyes lack the white border around them.
On the underside of Gama-chan, a white strip can be seen. The strip roughly says Naruto's Wallet (なるとさいふ, Naruto Saifu).
It might be based on the Chan Chu, the Lucky Money Toad, a Chinese symbol of prosperity depicted as a frog sitting on top of a pile of coins with a coin in its mouth.
The Japanese word for frog, "kaeru", is a homonym that means "return / to return". It is considered lucky in Japanese culture to keep a frog in wallets (in whatever form, whether as figurines or keychains, etc.) for money to come back when it is spent.

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 * On the underside of Gama-chan, a white strip can be seen. The strip roughly says {{translation|Naruto's Wallet|なるとさいふ|Naruto Saifu}}.
 * It might be based on the Chan Chu, the ''Lucky Money Toad'', a Chinese symbol of prosperity depicted as a frog sitting on top of a pile of coins with a coin in its mouth.
+* The Japanese word for frog, "kaeru", is a homonym that means "return / to return". It is considered lucky in Japanese culture to keep a frog in wallets (in whatever form, whether as figurines or keychains, etc.) for money to come back when it is spent.
 [[ru:Гама - чан]]