Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist best known for Naruto, a series that ran from 1999 to 2014 and has sold over 250 million copies worldwide. Besides the Naruto manga, he personally supervised the three anime films, including Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, and in 2019 wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru. He later took over as writer of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations in November 2020, replacing Ukyō Kodachi.