39 Facts About Masashi Kishimoto

Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto personally supervised the two canonical anime films, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories.

In 2019, Masashi Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020.

Masashi Kishimoto was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan on November 8,1974, as the older identical twin of Seishi Kishimoto.

Masashi Kishimoto's home was close to Hiroshima where his grandfather originated.

In elementary school, Masashi Kishimoto started watching the Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball anime alongside his brother.

However, upon seeing a poster for the animated film Akira, Masashi Kishimoto became fascinated with the way the illustration was made and wished to imitate the series' creator Katsuhiro Otomo's style.

However, during the same year, Masashi Kishimoto started reading Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin, which used the said genre.

Masashi Kishimoto recalls having never been surprised by manga ever since reading Akira and found that he still was not able to compete against them.

Masashi Kishimoto later met Tetsuya Nishio, the designer from the anime adaptation of the manga Ninku, whom he deemed a big influence.

In December 1997, while redeveloping Karakuri for serialization, Masashi Kishimoto was offered a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Yahagi persuaded him to give the shonen genre one last shot and Masashi Kishimoto began working on storyboards for a fantasy one-shot, Magic Mushroom, but stopped when Yahagi called and asked him to instead develop storyboards for serialization.

Masashi Kishimoto was the winner of "Rookie of the Year" for the series in the Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Masashi Kishimoto requested that Tetsuya Nishio oversee the character designs of Naruto when the manga was adapted into an anime series.

War is a theme Masashi Kishimoto wanted to tell in the manga based on the Hiroshima crisis he was told from his grandfather.

Additionally, Masashi Kishimoto referred to Yoshihiro Togashi as one of his favorite artists.

For Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, Masashi Kishimoto was responsible for Mecha Naruto upon being suggested by the staff to include a new character.

Masashi Kishimoto decided on adding a character that would create a big impact worldwide, which resulted in Mecha Naruto.

The designs used for the film were the designs Masashi Kishimoto made for a planned Part 3 of Naruto, however that idea was scrapped for Boruto so they were repurposed for The Last.

However, Masashi Kishimoto admitted that it now appears that the manga will continue beyond that timeframe.

In 2010, Masashi Kishimoto produced a one-shot baseball manga, Bench, as part of Jump's "Top of the Super Legend" project, a series of six one-shot manga by famed Weekly Shonen Jump artists.

In 2015, Masashi Kishimoto illustrated the cover of violinist Chisako Takashima's album Strings on Fire.

Masashi Kishimoto illustrated several light novels set during the same time period as The Last.

Masashi Kishimoto had not yet finalized when he plans to officially announce the series, as he wants to spend time with his family.

On December 19,2015, it was announced that Masashi Kishimoto would supervise the monthly Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga series beginning in Spring 2016.

In December 2017 at Jump Festa 2018 it was confirmed that Masashi Kishimoto was developing a new science fiction adventure series tentatively scheduled to debut in 2018.

Masashi Kishimoto will be handling the script and rough storyboards, while Akira Okubo, a former assistant on Naruto and brother of Atsushi Okubo, is responsible for illustrating the final manuscript.

In November 2020 it was announced that after 51 chapters and 13 volumes Kodachi would step down as writer of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga, with Masashi Kishimoto assuming full writing duties and Ikemoto continuing as illustrator beginning with chapter 52 in the upcoming December issue of V Jump magazine, published on November 21,2020.

Masashi Kishimoto is the twin brother of Seishi Masashi Kishimoto, the author of 666 Satan and Blazer Drive.

In 2003, Masashi Kishimoto married, but did not take a honeymoon with his wife until 2015 due to being busy with Naruto.

When Masashi Kishimoto was originally creating the Naruto series, he looked to other shonen manga for influences while attempting to make his characters as unique as possible.

Masashi Kishimoto cites Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series as one of his influences, noting that Goku, the protagonist, was a key factor when creating Naruto Uzumaki due to his energetic and mischievous personality.

Masashi Kishimoto cited The Matrix as an inspiration for the redesigned character outfits.

Masashi Kishimoto has cited Yoshihiro Togashi as one of his favorite manga authors, while the manga Sasuke by Sanpei Shirato inspired Kishimoto in the developing Sasuke Uchiha.

Masashi Kishimoto has cited other influences such as Takeshi Kitano and Quentin Tarantino.

Masashi Kishimoto mentioned Michael Bay's technique "of shooting a scene against the background light" but found it difficult to make.

When drawing the characters, Masashi Kishimoto consistently follows a five-step process: concept and rough sketch; drafting; inking; shading; and coloring.

Masashi Kishimoto has admitted he made no plans in regards to the development of Narutos story developments.

When Masashi Kishimoto had the idea that Minato would be Naruto's father, he started adding hints of that to the reader such as giving the Hokage mountain from Konohagakure spiky hair similar to Naruto's.

Masashi Kishimoto claimed he was a fan of Avi Arad, most notably his films based on the Spider-Man comic book character.