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.
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
A countdown website titled "Next Generation" was used to promote the new manga. In December 2015, the "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"s serialisation was announced. Kishimoto said he wanted "Boruto" to surpass his own work. The writer of "Boruto", Ukyō Kodachi, had written a light novel called "Gaara Hiden" (2015) and had assisted Kishimoto in writing the script for the film "Boruto: Naruto the Movie". Besides writing for the series, Kodachi supervises the story of the anime. Kishimoto also acted as the supervisor of the anime for episodes 8 and 9.