Masashi Kishimoto
For the ninth "Naruto" film, "", Kishimoto was responsible for both the story planning and characters' designs. To promote the film, Kishimoto worked in "Motion Comic Naruto" a DVD that shows scenes from the manga in 3D that was given to the first 1.5 million people who went to the cinema. Regarding "Naruto"s publication Kishimoto told Tetsuya Nishio in July 2012 that the series would take over a year and a half to end. However, Kishimoto admitted that it now appears that the manga will continue beyond that timeframe. In April 2012, it was announced that Kishimoto would publish a one-shot version of his long-postponed mafia manga, "Mario", in "Jump Square", based on the rough, 160-page manuscript he began working on before "Naruto" became serialized.
Nina Matsumoto
Nina Matsumoto (Born November 18, 1984) is a Japanese-Canadian cartoonist, also known as "space coyote", and most known for creating the comic book series "Yōkaiden" for Del Rey Manga. She created the webcomic "Saturnalia", and has worked as a penciller on "Simpsons Comics" and "The Last Airbender: Prequel: Zuko's Story" graphic novel. She is also the artist and co-creator of Sparks!, a graphic novel for Scholastic Books.