Masashi Kishimoto

About Masashi Kishimoto

The famed Naruto manga series was created by a Japanese manga artist. Karakuri and Bench are two of his other manga works.

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous work, Naruto, was serialized from 1999 to 2014 and sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two cartoons and numerous movies, video games and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto personally oversees two classic animated series The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. In 2019, Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020. From May 2016 to October 2020, he oversees the manga Boruto: Naruto Next Generations written by Ukyo Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. In November 2020, it was announced that he had taken on the role of writer for the series, replacing Kodachi. As a manga reader from a young age, Kishimoto expressed a desire to write his own manga, taking authors Akira Toriyama and Katsuhiro Otomo as his main inspiration.

Relatives	Seishi Kishimoto (twin brother)
Born	November 8, 1974, Nagi, Japan
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Naruto

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He authored three graphic novels based on his Naruto manga series and also wrote scripts of the Naruto-based anime films Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie and The Last: Naruto the Movie.

Masashi Kishimoto before fame

In high school, he lost interest in manga and anime, preferring to focus on baseball and basketball instead; nevertheless, after seeing an Akira poster, he decided to try to replicate the artist's style. He got a 1995 award for his artistic promise for his first manga, Karakuri.

Achievement of Masashi Kishimoto

He created the scripts for the Naruto-based anime films Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie and The Last: Naruto the Movie, as well as three graphic novels based on his Naruto manga series.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$20 Million

Masashi Kishimoto family life

Seishi, his twin brother, also worked as a manga artist. The brothers were born in the city of Nagi in the Japanese prefecture of Okayama.

Associations of Masashi Kishimoto

His contribution in the realm of Japanese comics is almost as well-known as that of Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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