Masashi KishimotoBy: Christof Stephenson

Who is Mashashi Kishimoto?Masashi Kishimoto, born on No-vember 8th, 1974 is a manga artist and creator of the famous manga Naruto. He created Naruto in 1999 and it continued cerialization until 2014. Other than Naruto he also has a new series called Boturo based around narutos son. His manga was considered one of the big 3 of an era of manga, the other two be-ing One Piece and Bleach. He was inspired by Akira Toriyama and dragonball to start making a career out of Manga.

Naruto-Naruto is Kishimoto’s most popu-lar and well known work of art. -He started it in 1999 and since then it has garnered enough popu-larity to enable it to have 42 differ-ent games and 7 movies. -It has a fanbase so large that his books have sold over 220 million copies worldwide- The story still continues to this day with a spin-off about his son. It is called Boruto and follows the life of him.

What he has done other than Naruto?Kishimoto also does designs for the games his characters are in. The person to the left though is a man named lars who was in-troduced in Tekken 6. Kishimoto designed the costume for him in that game so Lars was also put in the Naruto game Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.

Interview Panel With Kishimoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzSgx6el1E