The Naruto Manga has recently come to an end in it's 700th chapter published on the 50th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. As many of you know, and for those that don't let me tell you that while I don't really like "Naruto" I can definitely respect the work of a great Mangaka that has work for over 15 years on a serialized manga.
To commemorate that one of the longest Manga Shonen series have come to an end and I lived to see it (and I hope I can live to see the end of one piece as well...) for today I brought you all:
Masashi Kishimoto 6 Fun Facts
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| Things you might or might not know |
Kishimoto's Office Plants
A Mangaka spends almost all of his time inside his studio, roughly 15 hours of work sited drawing several pages for every chapter of a Manga. It's not uncommon for them to decorate their work place and what better to bring some life into any place than some pretty plants and flowers!
Kishimoto thought the same and decided to get himself a nice office plant that could bring some life, sadly for him the plants that he bridged...died.
Kishimoto is a great artist and knows how to do Shonen Manga...yet gardening..is another different matter.
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| Dead like the hopes and dreams of a certain famous "shipping" among fans |
Kishimoto Seinen Manga
We all know Kishimoto for his Shonen Manga "Naruto" and some of the most "hard-core" fans might also know about his early work "Karakuri" which set his career as a Mangaka in Weekly Shonen Jump.
But did you know, that during his college years in art school. He actually drew in a more Seinen-oriented style? And even claimed to "not be fit" to make Shonen Manga?
Well let me present you Masashi Kishimoto Seinen Manga, a work he claimed to be his master piece.
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Mario
(there are no plumbers nor ninjas in this manga) |
Naruto might have never been made!
During his high school years, Kishimoto became disinterested about Manga and focused on other things such as sports. He too this date has cherish memories of his time in the soft ball team and at that point Manga was the last thing on his mind.
That was until one fateful day, in which the flame of inspiration came to him and would change his life, and the life of million of person all over the world.
Thanks to this piece of art, we can enjoy the works of Kishimoto today:
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| A poster for the Movie Akira |
Kishimoto's Twin Brother
Kishimoto has a twin younger brother who is also a Mangaka,Seishi Kishimoto, due to the similarities of their styles; fans would claim that their works would be a copy of the other. This accusations were so harsh that Kishimoto had to ask the fans to stop labeling his younger brother as a "Copy-Cat"
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| Seishi Kishimoto |
His brother has said several times that the similarities in their style are attributed to the fact that they have been drawing since they were child and that both of them were inspired by similar things.
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| 666 Satan(talk about a controversial name) |
Kishimoto is a Gundam figures avid collector
A passion that Kishimoto share with one of our members ,Victor, is the love for the mechanized humanoid robots "Gundams"
While I couldn't exactly find how many he does posses, just by general accessibility and income I would say that it should be something quite larger than this:
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| Victor would really love some of those... |
Kishimoto's character names origins
During his latter elementary school days, the Anime series of Dragon ball was released and that inspired young Kishimoto and his brother to create their very own Shonen Manga.
As they were immerse in the Anime world they would often play around trying to think names for their characters and super heroes. Most of the time they would name their characters after condiments they could find in the refrigerator.
And that seem to be a characteristic he carried on, including his love for Ramen.
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| Literary the kind of characters they would create |
I hope you have enjoyed this 6 small facts about Masashi Kishimoto, and if you are wondering why 6 instead of 7 or 10...well..I just so happen to like the number 6.
As always I welcome all of you to leave your thought, opinion, suggestions and more in our comment section down below.
This is Kyou wishing you all a nice day and be sure to check DMS for more Doujins and Randoms.
