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
The soundtracks of "Naruto: Shippuden" were produced by Yasuharu Takanashi; they were titled "Naruto Shippūden Original Soundtrack I", "II", and "III", and were released in 2007, 2009, and 2016. "Naruto All Stars", released in 2008, consists of 10 original "Naruto" songs remixed and sung by characters from the series. Ten themes from the two anime series were collected in the DVD box "Naruto Super Hits 2006–2008", which appeared in 2008. Soundtracks from the "Shippuden" films have also been released, with the first one available in 2007. A final one composed of the series is set to be released in late 2017 with Aniplex having started a survey of all "Naruto" and "Naruto Shippuden" themes to be included in the CD.