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.
Dragon Ball (manga)
Many manga artists have cited "Dragon Ball" and Toriyama as inspirations, including "Fairy Tail" and "Rave" author Hiro Mashima. Both "One Piece" creator Eiichiro Oda and "Naruto" creator Masashi Kishimoto have said that Goku inspired their series' main protagonists as well as their structures. For the "kanzenban" re-release of "Dragon Ball", every odd-numbered volume included a tribute illustration by a popular manga artist who was a child when it was serialized, accompanied with a few words about how the series influenced them. The artists who contributed include: "Bleach" creator Tite Kubo, "Black Cat" author Kentaro Yabuki, "The Seven Deadly Sins" author Nakaba Suzuki, "Eyeshield 21" and "One-Punch Man" illustrator Yusuke Murata, "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" creator Yoshio Sawai, "Pretty Face" author Yasuhiro Kanō, "Mr. Fullswing" author Shinya Suzuki, "Hellsing" creator Kouta Hirano, "Claymore" author Norihiro Yagi, "Phantom Thief Jeanne" and "Full Moon o Sagashite" creator Arina Tanemura, "Excel Saga" author Rikdo Koshi, "Dragon Drive" creator Kenichi Sakura, and "Happy World!" author Kenjiro Takeshita. The producer of the "Tekken" video game series, Katsuhiro Harada, said that "Dragon Ball" was one of the first works to visually depict chi and thereby influenced "Tekken" and other Japanese games such as "Street Fighter". Ian Jones-Quartey, a producer of the American animated series "Steven Universe", is a fan of "Dragon Ball" and "Dr. Slump", and uses Toriyama's vehicle designs as a reference for his own. He also stated that "We're all big Toriyama fans on ["Steven Universe"], which kind of shows a bit."