Masashi Kishimoto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Masashi Kishimoto
Occupation	Comic Book Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1974(1974-11-08)
Age	50
Birthplace	Nagi
Country	Japan
Birth City	Okayama Prefecture
Horoscope	Scorpio

Masashi Kishimoto Biography

Masashi Kishimoto is one of the most popular and richest Comic Book Artist who was born on November 8, 1974 in Nagi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Japanese manga writer who developed the critically acclaimed Naruto series. Other manga works by him include Bench and Karakuri.

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Masashi Kishimoto (岸本 斉史 , Kishimoto Masashi, born November 8, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist. His best known work, Naruto, was in serialization from 1999 to 2014 and has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into three anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also 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, Kishimoto started writing the manga Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru.

Kishimoto’s first successful manga pilot was Karakuri (カラクリ , lit. “Mechanism”) , which he submitted to Shueisha in 1995. This earned him an honorable mention in Shueisha’s monthly “Hop Step Award” in 1996, granted to promising rookie manga artists. At this point he was assigned an editor, Kosuke Yahagi, and worked on a number of rejected drafts including a slice-of- life manga, Michikusa (道くさ , lit. “Wandering Detour”) , and an action manga, Asian Punk (アジアンパンク , Ajian Panku) . In 1997, he wrote a one-shot version of Naruto (NARUTO－ナルト－ ) which was published in Akamaru Jump Summer.

The twins of his brother Seishi was also a comic book artist. an illustrious career as manga artist. Both brothers were raised at Nagi, Okayama, Japan.

Masashi Kishimoto Net Worth

Masashi Kishimoto is one of the richest Comic Book Artist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Masashi Kishimoto 's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He grew disinterested in manga and anime during high school, and instead focused on basketball and baseball However, when seeing an Akira poster and decided to imitate the style of the artist. His debut manga, Karakuri, he received an award in 1995 for his talent as an artist.

He wrote three graphic novels that were based on Naruto manga. Naruto manga series. He also wrote the scripts for the Naruto-based animated movies Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie and The Last: Naruto the Movie.

Masashi Kishimoto was born in the Okayama Prefecture, Japan on November 8, 1974 as the older identical twin of Seishi Kishimoto. During his childhood, Kishimoto showed interest in drawing characters from the anime shows he watched, such as Dr. Slump’ s Arale and Doraemon’ s titular protagonist. In elementary school, Kishimoto started watching the Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball anime alongside his brother. During the following years, Kishimoto started idolizing Dragon Ball’ s original creator Akira Toriyama, enjoying not only his series Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, but also Dragon Quest, a series of role- playing video games for which Toriyama is the art designer. While he could not afford to buy Weekly Shōnen Jump where the Dragon Ball manga was published, he followed the series thanks to a friend from school who had subscribed to the magazine. By high school Kishimoto started losing interest in manga as he started playing baseball and basketball, sports he practiced at his school. However, upon seeing a poster for the animated film Akira, Kishimoto became fascinated with the way the illustration was made and wished to imitate the series’ creator Katsuhiro Otomo’s style. Other series he enjoyed reading are Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Ninku and Ghost in the Shell.

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For the ninth Naruto film, Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, Kishimoto was responsible for both the story planning and characters’ designs. To promote the film, Kishimoto worked in Motion Comic Naruto a DVD that shows scenes from the manga in 3D that was given to the first 1.5 million people who went to the cinema. Regarding Naruto’ s publication Kishimoto told Tetsuya Nishio in July 2012 that the series would take over a year and a half to end. However, Kishimoto admitted that it now appears that the manga will continue beyond that timeframe.

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Masashi Ranked on the list of most popular Comic Book Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Masashi Kishimoto celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.

In September 1999, the serialized version of Naruto premiered in Weekly Shōnen Jump 1999 No. 43 and quickly became a hit. Naruto ended on November 10, 2014 after more than 15 years of serialization, with a total of 700 chapters collected in 72 volumes. Sales have exceeded 113 million copies in Japan and over 95 million copies in the US, followed by over 93 million copies worldwide (outside Japan and United States) as of volume 36. Making total sales for the series approximately 301 million copies. Kishimoto was also the winner of “Rookie of the Year” for the series in the Agency for Cultural Affairs. It was adapted into two successful anime series, Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. Kishimoto requested that Tetsuya Nishio oversee the character designs of Naruto when the manga was adapted into an anime series. The Naruto manga series became one of Viz Media’s top properties, accounting for nearly 10% of all manga sales in the US in 2006. The seventh volume of Viz’s release became the first manga to ever win a Quill Award when it claimed the award for “Best Graphic Novel” in 2006. Responding to Naruto’s success, Kishimoto said in Naruto Collector Winter 2007/2008 that he was “very glad that the American audience has accepted and understood ninja. It shows that the American audience has good taste… because it means they can accept something previously unfamiliar to them.” While writing the manga, Kishimoto met Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece who he considered his rival. When Naruto ended, Oda left a message in the series’ final volume acknowledging him as a rival. According to Kishimoto “That felt so gratifying.” Additionally, before the anime adaptation’s premiere of My Hero Academia, he praised Kōhei Horikoshi’s work, believing it would be a success overseas. Additionally, Kishimoto referred to Yoshihiro Togashi as one of his favorite artists.

Why did Kishimoto leave Naruto?

It’s understandable why Kishimoto decided to take a break from the series to seek a much more sustainable work schedule. Any creative individual can only imagine the burnout that would come from working on a single series for 15 years almost non-stop.

Is Kishimoto Alive 2021?

Kishimoto ain’t dead. It was some fake news spreading around the internet and apparently, people believed it but it is not true, no. Thatk you for asking this question instead of just believing it and spreading it as fake news.

Is Kishimoto writing Boruto?

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto , and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto.

What was Naruto inspired by?

Yokai are not the only legendary element of Kishimoto’s tale. In fact, Naruto is heavily inspired by Japanese mythology, especially Shintoism, and even Confucian thought. For example, Sasuke’s brother, Itachi, has techniques named after the Shinto deities Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu, and Susano-o.

Did Masashi Kishimoto want Sasuke and Naruto together?

Kishimoto said that because Sasuke was introduced as a rival character in the beginning, he also wanted the manga to end with Sasuke and Naruto fighting as rivals.