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 Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
For this game, the development team requested help from an expert at fighting games to create a new battle system. For this they wanted to have more movements that required more inputs. Because there are more than one hundred characters, there was a lot of testing and adjustment to find the best result in making the game. The team decided to focus on the fighting system over the hack and slash segments introduced in previous games. Ideas for Mecha-Naruto started when the staff had discussion about including a new mode. Masashi Kishimoto was the man responsible for Mecha-Naruto upon being suggested by the staff to include a new character. Kishimoto decided on adding a character that would bring a big impact to worldwide level which resulted in Mecha-Naruto. CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama was surprised when seeing the new character.