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.
Naruto
"Naruto" was published in Shueisha's magazine, "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from September 21, 1999 (No. 43), to November 10, 2014 (No. 50). The manga was also published in "tankōbon" (book) form in Japan and other countries, releasing 72 volumes—27 for Part I, and the rest for Part II. The first 238 chapters are Part I and constitute the first section of the "Naruto" storyline. Chapters 239 to 244 include a "gaiden" (side-story) focusing on Kakashi Hatake's background. The remaining chapters (245 to 700) belong to Part II, which continues the story after a two-and-a-half year gap in the internal timeline. The first "tankōbon" was released on March 3, 2000. Shueisha have also released several ani-manga "tankōbon", each based on one of the "Naruto" movies, and has released the series in Japanese for cell-phone download on their website "Shueisha Manga Capsule". A miniseries titled , centered on the main characters' children, began serialization in the Japanese and English editions of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" on April 27, 2015, and ended after ten chapters on July 6, 2015.