Masashi Kishimoto was born in Okayama in 1974. Since his childhood interest in drawing was high and soon realized that more than a pastime that the design could become a job. With his early works he inspired many souls seen on television (Doraemon, Gundam).
His passion for Manga creebbe lementari while attending to and through the "Legend" Dragon Ball produced continuously in the cartoons. His first manga was titled Hitar-kun , a story centered on a shadow ninja boy. For a while Kishimoto abandoned his vocation to engage in the study, but one day, by pure luck began to know the legend Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). Masashi tried to imitate the style of Otomo, but soon realized that imitating the style of others would never have made something original.
began to create small 31-page manga. He read his first productions with his brother, as he did with his father, but their views were entirely negative. Kishimoto is not shot down and tried to cultivate his passion and improve. As soon as the opportunity arose show off his fancy gave to the drawing, until he entered a school of art. Here he exhibited his work, Karakuri that led him to win a major prize, or the 'Hot Steps . He began his career as marked initially by many difficulties and some flop. Despite all his passion and his desire to draw helped him overcome the difficulties and began to realize what was to become one of the most popular manga in Japan due to its immediate success: Naruto.La peculiarity of Naruto is that Kishimoto those traditions in a modern reworking of the samurai and ninja that characterized Japan in the past. Now Masashi is one of the greatest manga in circulation, with the help of Naruto.
His twin brother Seishi Kishimoto is also a manga artist and author of 666 Satan.Spesso was pointed out that their designs are very similar, and both have often been accused of plagiarism. However, Seishi noted in one of the volumes of his manga that the similarities are not intentional and are probably due to the fact that both authors were influenced by the same things.
