About Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto (岸本 斉史 Kishimoto Masashi?, born 8 November 1974[1]) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. A 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. 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. During the publication of Naruto, Kishimoto got married and became a father

Seishi Kishimoto

Seishi Kishimoto (岸本 聖史 Kishimoto Seishi?, born November 8, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for 666 Satan, which was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 2001 to 2007 and licensed by VIZ in North America as O-Parts Hunter. His older twin brother, Masashi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of Naruto. A year after 666 Satan ended Seishi launched Blazer Drive in Monthly Shōnen Rival, which ran until 2011.[1] He then made the one-shot 12 O'Clock Bell Rings, which was published in Kodansha's monthly Shōjo magazine Aria in 2011. In the January 2012 issue of Monthly Shōnen Rival, Seishi debuted his newest series, Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji ("The Crimson Wolf and the Trapped Sheep