Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist best known for Naruto, serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1999 to 2014. By May 2019 the series had sold more than 250 million copies across 46 countries, and it was adapted into two anime series, films and games.

Viz Media's English edition of Naruto volume 7 became the first manga to win a Quill Award, taking Best Graphic Novel in 2006. Kishimoto also supervised three Naruto anime films and has written several one-shot stories.

In 2019 he launched Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru, which ended in March 2020. He supervised the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga from 2016 and became its writer in November 2020.