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.ĭuring his last years of school, Kishimoto spent time drawing manga and went to an art college with hopes that he would become a manga artist.

By high school Kishimoto started losing interest in manga as he started playing baseball and basketball, sports he practiced at his school. 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. Slump, but also Dragon Quest, a role-playing video game for which Toriyama was art designer.

During the following years, Kishimoto started idolizing Dragon Ball‍ 's author Akira Toriyama, enjoying not only his series Dragon Ball and Dr. In elementary school, Kishimoto started watching the Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball anime alongside his brother. Slump's Arale and Doraemon‍ 's titular protagonist. During his childhood, Kishimoto showed interest in drawing characters from the anime shows he watched, such as Dr. Masashi Kishimoto was born in the Okayama Prefecture, Japan on Novemas the older identical twin of Seishi Kishimoto. During the publication of Naruto, Kishimoto married in 2003 and became a father. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) and Blazer Drive. As a result, Kishimoto spent several years working to write his own shōnen manga for Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine which he was a fan of. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also participated in the making of the anime films Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, The Last: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories.Ī reader of manga ever since a young age, Kishimoto showed a desire to write his own manga, citing authors Akira Toriyama and Katsuhiro Otomo as his main inspirations. As of September 2014, the series had over 200 million copies in print worldwide. WORLD BIOGRAPHY - Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史 Kishimoto Masashi?, born November 8, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014.

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