Masashi Kishimoto's favorite character offered him creative and artistic challenges that he wholeheartedly embraced, and the ...

Kishimoto's biggest regret was not surpassing One Piece in popularity due to his inability to do so. Boruto has been ...

Masashi Kishimoto shared how a legendary samurai manga surpassed his expectations and pushed him to choose ninja over samurai ...

During an interview, Masashi Kishimoto and his editor, Kosuke Yahagi, shared how Naruto’s original draft was very different, ...

Interestingly, Masashi Kishimoto had intended for Obito to survive and become a major antagonist from the beginning of the Naruto story. Those references were much later in the series—chapters ...