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: Clash of Ninja
Naruto: Clash of Ninja, known in Japan as , is the first installment of the "Clash of Ninja" series and the first "Naruto" game released in Japan and North America. and has ten characters It was released in Japan on April 11, 2003. The game was announced along with its sequel, "Clash of Ninja" 2, on October 27, 2005, for a 2006 release in North America, which was released on March 7, 2006. The game's plot follows from Naruto's graduation from the Academy to the start of the Chunin Exams.