Naruto: Meet the Creator

Welcome to meet the creator at the Apple Store Soho in New York. Please welcome this evening's moderator, Chris Wichir. My name is Chris Wichir and I am the director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I have had the pleasure of welcoming many Kishimoto Sensei, and I am the director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Kishimoto Sensei is not just produced the best-selling manga in America. He holds that title. He is not just produced some of the best-selling comics in North America. The best-selling comic series in North America is now Naruto. But often during his publication history Naruto was one of the best-selling books, book books, all of the books in North America. That's what Naruto is all about. So congratulations, sir. And obviously one of the best-selling manga of all time. He's rivaling it out with Oro Sensei on one piece, but it's their friends. It's okay. Kishimoto Sensei, I mean you guys all know, you guys know about Kishimoto Sensei, but he loved manga his whole life, inspired by Dragon Ball as many of us are, and he created. oh, Dragon Ball, of course. And created his first version of Naruto in 1997 and just sort of worked it out. And then 1999 debuted on the scene, and it's been pretty much a smash hit ever since. It just wrapped up the manga incarnation. The anime is still going. He spent the last year working on a side story, which you're going to get in English any day now, from Biz. He's been working on writing a script for the Naruto movie Brutto, the movie, which is so exciting. It premieres Saturday morning. I'm hoping I'm guessing you're all going to be there. You guys going to be there for Balotel? Amazing. I'm going to ask some questions tonight. Then you're going to ask some questions tonight. We're going to keep. we're going to talk about all things Naruto. It's going to be absolutely amazing. So, we're going to. Oh, and during Kishimoto Sensei is going to be his editor, actually, Otsuke. And he's coming for the first time. It's really exciting. So I'm going to actually right now introduce to the states, Masashi Kishimoto. Otsuke, Sen, please come up. Nice to meet you. My name is Masashi Kishimoto. Thank you very much. Very nice to meet all of you. So, we're going to just. we're going to jump in. Naruto has become a global hit. It is a hit all over the world now. Not just North America, not just Japan, but there are people that read Naruto literally everywhere. What does it mean to you to know that manga. that this manga has become, you know, more than just a manga to people, to become part of their identity. What does that mean to you? I'm very happy to meet you. What is it? It's like, I'm happy to meet you in Japan, and I'm very happy to meet you. I'm very happy to meet you in Japan, and I'm very happy to meet you in Japan. It makes me so happy to know that you enjoy my manga, and that you are not only just aware of Japan, but also aware of Japanese cultural phenomena like manga. It's just really heartwarming. You can clap. It's okay. In many ways, you've become an ambassador of Japan to North America. How does that make you feel? I've heard that you've become an ambassador of Japan. How do you feel? I don't know if you're an ambassador. I'm a foreigner. I'm a foreigner. I'm a foreigner. I'm a foreigner. Really? I don't think I'm not so aware of that. I mean, after all, Naruto is just an ingredient in ramen. If you ask the average Joe, what's a Naruto? If they know any Japanese, they probably would point to that rather than my manga. I respectfully disagree. Thank you very much. I love manga. I actually started a whole comics festival, just because I love comics. I love manga. I love Bondeson A. I love every kind of comics. I love talking to people who make manga, because they generally make comics like that. You have to invest a lot of yourself, and you have to put a lot of work into making manga. Please tell us about your process for creating manga. I love manga. I've made a lot of manga. I love talking to people who make manga. First, I'd like to introduce a story to a viewer. I'd like to write a story called "Name" in a story. Then I'd write it down and write it down. Every week, the first thing that happens is that I meet with my editor. We go over what the plot will be for that particular chapter. Then I produce something called "Name" which is a very rough sketch, not even a draft, because the next step is a rough draft. After that, we ink it in and then put the final touches, and it's done. Repeat. You were telling me earlier that you actually go so far as to personally place the zipped tone on the characters, like the gray dots that you see isn't done by computers. You actually do that by hand. I heard that when I was in school, I heard that the tone itself was quite similar to the character. The tone is also called tone. It's called "sheal" and "kitte halu". It's like everyone is doing it with Ashi-san. It's not digital. I'm actually quite analog. I don't draw manga digitally yet at all. There's sticker sheets with different tone and shades. Actually, it's not just me, myself, but my assistants and I will get together, and we have fun putting on the tones manually. So, like a sticker book? Yes. It's hard to draw a costume, so I don't recommend it to everyone. If you draw a manga, you can do it digitally. But for anybody in manga culture, I must say I don't recommend the manual method anymore. It's quite costly, and it's quite a lot of work and takes a lot of time. So, I definitely recommend those of you who are just getting started or are not yet started to go digital. So, some authors actually have notebooks or what we call "series" bibles. Does Nero-Duo create a series Bible for Nero-Duo when you were creating the series? Do I look like a manga artist who is able to make a book or a book or a book that can be created by a bunch of people? Is it a series that can be used for a long time? I was creating only the beginning of the series. I didn't think about it then, so I didn't think about it. I think it's just the image that I had to say. I definitely did create something of the sort when the series began. But after that, I ran out of time, so I didn't really have a chance to go back and not say "add to it." But whenever I came up with a new character or whenever I'd refer back, the things that would include the overall image, the overall visual of the character, and also the personality traits and speech patterns. And how do you keep the shape of the manga? I mean, I don't know if you guys know, we counter it up. There's over 12,000 pages of Naruto manga that he has created. Had to say it on every single one of them. How do you keep the story straight in your head for as many years as the series went for that many pages? How do you shape the series going forward and keep it all together? We've been in the same position for 12,000 pages. How do you keep the story straight in your head? I don't remember. I remember that. I remember that only in a very positive way. I remember that only in a single page. I don't know if I really do keep all of it in my head. I feel like I've forgotten more than I've stored. I definitely remember that. a lot of the dramatic scenes I've drawn or like the splash scenes and I remember in particular there was one blank page that I once had and that I remember as well. I want to talk about actually it's funny you mentioned blank pages because I think that you your composition, your panel composition, your page composition is really interesting. It feels very deliberate. Can you talk about why composition of pages is so important to you? I talked about it a little bit earlier. I heard that you have a lot of power in the panel composition, but can you talk about it a little bit? Yes. I think that's a lot of things that are difficult to understand. I heard that it's difficult to read because it's difficult to read outside, so I was able to read it simple. I think that you can also use it as a character to make it look like a character. In terms of the overall panel layout, I try to keep it simple because especially after I started hearing about all my fans abroad, mainly because the reading order is different in Japan versus abroad. But then something that I'm really interested in and what's very important to me is to maintain a proper background perspective and character perspective so that everything looks real when you look at it. The manga feels very cinematic. I read Naruto for years, but when I learned that I would meet you, I actually decided to study Naruto and really just go back at every volume. It's always felt so cinematic from the very very beginning. Did you always think about the characters in motion? Did you think about the possibility of the series being animated from the very beginning? I read Naruto for a while, but I was able to read it in a video. When you interviewed the teacher, you asked him to come back and then he said, "I'm going to study manga from the front of the production." Did you draw the anime card from the beginning to the beginning? I didn't draw the anime card. I didn't know if I could become a manga, so I did it with the manga's effort. I heard that the movie was big, so I thought it might have been a bit difficult to make a movie. I also think that there is a movie that I like to watch with my friend Katsuyuro's permission. I had no awareness at all, or did not consciously think about a possible anime adaptation of Naruto when I first started. In fact, I wasn't even sure if I would make it or keep going as a manga cup. I must say, I was influenced by movies growing up, and therefore maybe my cinematic outlook comes from that. In particular, I was a very big fan of very heavily influenced by Katsuyuro Ultomo's Akira. The anime, which most of you are probably more familiar with, but the manga itself also has a very similar cinematic feel to it. I think that's what influenced my work, not so much any cognizant of an anime adaptation. The manga for Akira really is fantastic. I think that's. I guess I'll skip a little bit. It seems like you really struggled to make it as a manga cup for a number of years. In the other interviews I've read and the articles about you, it seemed like you were a true manga fan. You really read a lot of manga. You wanted to figure out how it worked. You kept struggling before Naruto was a success. Did you ever consider. Did you ever consider going a different way? Did you ever consider abandoning a story? Did you ever consider going and doing "Sanin manga" again instead? Because it seems like you know so much about manga that you could have gone in any direction. But it seems like Naruto was really important to you. I've been listening to the manga for a long time. I read the other interviews and the articles about manga. I really like manga. I really liked it. I really wanted to go into the manga industry. Did you ever think about making manga back to the past year? Yes. Honestly, I don't want to be a manga fan. I don't know, but I thought I might not be able to make it. I wrote a lot of manga about the past year. I wrote a lot of manga. I started to write a lot of manga about manga. I was very happy to see the manga. I thought I could make it. To be honest, while I never truly gave up the desire and the dream to become a manga, there was a time that I faced the reality that I did not make it. I did write several "Sanin" type of stories that were not accepted for publications. My very first editor, Naruto, had come back to me and said, "Hey, why not just give it one more try?" What was that one last shot was Naruto? Oh. That was your biggest tidal pepper. I think the cake was really hit. I'm so glad. I think everyone here is pretty glad about that. Everyone is also glad. One of the things that you've said is that you feel like you've spent so much time with your assistants and so much time in the studio working that they feel as much a part of your family or sometimes more so than your actual family. You get to see your assistants more often. Now that the series, the manga series is finished, are you going to miss that part of your family? Not seeing them anymore? I have a long story to tell you. Do you have any memories of your family members who have been in the studio for 15 years? Yes. I don't think it's that bad for a man. It's a good friend. Maybe I might miss them, but the word that was used in the Japanese is more of a romantic miss. Since I'm a guy, I wouldn't quite go that far. There's certainly good peeps. I was really glad to have spent time with them. We talked a little bit about the creation of digital tools. Do you think that digital tools would change your workflow? Would you get more assistants or fewer assistants? Would you put your team together for your next project? You're going to obviously work with these same people who helped you put together Nuro or many of them. Do you think about how digital innovation might change that working environment? I think digital innovation might change that. But I think digital innovation might change that. Certainly, certain aspects of production will change. Perhaps become more efficient, take less time. Maybe I might be able to make do with slightly fewer assistants. I've heard in fact that for example, there's software out there that will calculate the perspective and set the perspective points for you. Certainly, that would change the process. But in terms of overall manga production with a giant pee, no software out there, no digital technology is going to help you make a better story. I think there are fundamental aspects of manga creation that won't change for me. One of the things we were talking about before we came out actually was that the majority of Kishima and Kishima were in the same way. という少し無理な感じに好きはいではないんだけど 是非勢力をかけつめて in a very shortly before あの音色が破壊する flying と打い影片 Dude 最近の笑顔に言ってた時に こうあのパースとかの計算とか書かれるのに あのお時間を使われると聞いたんですけど あのやっぱり時間を使うだけなく 楽しいですか 楽しくはない I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's fun てる でもやっぱりやっぱ 先輩の先輩というか僕が参加しているサッカーさん 特にま おとまさんとかどうしても きっちりとられてるしサムラさん 無限の住人のサムラヒロアキ先生とか そういうところを見るとどうしても僕も そっち側にいたいって少しでも思うので 頑張ります頑張ってます でも меняも見たいけどいく、 Doha Gor has Super Chan his nonexious sense 別の状態に テレビしようよ このベパパぽんをクリックします 『 select points Infinity Inspector 3gil』 『 to get even closer to their level of craft』 『 to just go the other way and just to look at gag manga with flat characters』 『 the sense is super flat』の『 gag manga』とか作られることは全然 『可能性なし』と言ってもいいですか? そうですね それを望まれるならやってみたいと思いますけど 多分面白くないと思います 僕がやると 後漢ちゃんの家で私はキライもありましたが 궁合唱跳度 Today. ナリ主 オミン山の子がés same 会社はっ もっとねそういうもっといっぱい作品があってそういう先生方には勝てないですねやっぱりそこは認識してます なんか、 いつが1日から続き発売しますanking その時のコメントにお会いしましょうか また、その曲の音を読みましたか? キスマートのセンサーのコメントについて、バックマンを感じていますか? 私は思い出しているので、私は思い出しましたか? 自然にそのキスマートのセンサーについても、キャラクターになることは知っていましたか? 知らなかったです、私のコメントは? どうしよう! でも、嬉しいです! 私は絶対に幸せになっているのです! そういうものがあるっていうのが 人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 彼は人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 彼は人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 彼は人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 彼は人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 彼は人々の真ん中であることを教えてください。 2キロです。 Wei Cupはとても話だから、 なので私は teint と康 desarrollo で あ f うわの 助理お顔より naar the TO teimen 悪女をなる宿した。 たら解 Hat Chaola With His Kiss まあそれを相変だわドランド diyorsunで Resource Sleeping I'm Really dangerous ここは私も ここで I'm Please このああ Fother now that your sons have been born playing into how you're creating the Bordeaux story Is that what's influenced this flash forward This next direction for the Naruto universe? まあみんなさんはもうご存知かもしれませんけど やっぱりなると 次の段階というのは未来へ あの息子のボルト次の世代のお話になってますけど やっぱり自分自身も息子を持つチュアとしての経験がそういう なるとと息子ボルトのお役関係とか影響されたよ これからのお話の展開を影響していくと思いますか それはもうまさにその通りですね 息子が生まれたんで ボルトとなるとの関係は僕の息子と 僕の関係とそっくりで 次の映画見てもらうとわかると思うんですけど まさにそのまんまです それ見た方はすごく強感してもらえるというか そうなんだなって言うのはわかると思います もう一つの時に私の sonの仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 今、私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? ありがとうございます 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? 私の仕事を見るのは本当にないですよね? both kind of supported and bolstered each other over the years and led to both of our successes because we had that rivalry. We each, you know, when one of us did something, the other one had to outdo the other and that kept both series going and being as well-liked and well received as it was. So, you know, in fact, we still communicate a lot, not in Twitter, but online, but we still consider each other's rivals' certain extent. But keep in mind the rivals also means friendship. Are you worried about. that's a good answer. But now I'm curious. Are you worried about Oda Sensei now that you've stopped making manga for a little bit? Are you concerned? Well, since Naut's first year is over, Oda Sensei is concerned a little bit about the new ones. Well, I'm worried about the growth of the team. I'm not sure if the new ones are going to protect the new ones or not. I'm worried about the change of people. I'm worried about the change. Well, if I were to say that I was worried, I'm definitely worried about his physical condition to hope for his health. Because certainly I've heard that he's not making his deadlines lately. You know, the editors are giving me the hairy eye right now. But, you know, so I'm definitely concerned that he be able to maintain his health and yet still keep working. There are two questions. Is Sensei's manga "Benzi"? American's pizza's name is "Dust-Bed". Is Sensei's story in the past? Can you translate the question? Yes, good evening, Sensei. Mr. Editor, welcome to New York. I actually have two questions. I'm going to ask you to translate the question. I saw that in your baseball one shot, you had a character named Darth Vader. Does that imply that you're a Star Wars fan? I'm a very strange fan. I don't know how to translate it. You're a hardcore fan. Do you like the anime of the movie "SF" or "SF" movie? If you were to pick which sci-fi movie or comics or any sort of work, would you say is something that you like or influenced by? I do love Star Wars. I actually want to pair Crocs, one with Yoda and one with Darth Vader. I do like American comics as well. I also like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Haruk, and Ant-Man. Of course, I also like Batman. I love a lot of Batman. I recently saw the Ant-Man movie. Hi, Kishi Mota Sensei. I wrote about Naruto. I actually merged my exact childhood. I was wondering about the tailed beast. Thank you for making Naruto because you got me into college. What happened to the tailed beast at the end? The tailed beast. I actually talked about my childhood. I actually graduated from Columbia University. I wrote about Naruto when I was in college. I was really grateful for that. I was born in the age of 1. I was born in the age of 2. What happened to the tailed beast? The tailed beast. The tailed beast is fun. I think it's a big deal. I hope that they are living happily ever after. They are noticeable because they are so huge. 9 tales is still within Naruto. I would like to think that they are all leading and comfortable lives. Thank you so much. That was awesome.