KISHIMOTO Masashi

Japanese Name: 岸本斉史

Place of Birth: Okayama, Japan

Gender: Male

Information for Authors: Graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Kyushu Sangyo University. Married in 2003 and has children. Kishimoto had a deal with Jump editorial department that he will receive Toriyama Akira's autographed paper as a reward when the serialization of Naruto reaches the third anniversary. He and Oda Eiichiro are both rival and close friend. His younger twin brother KISHIMOTO Seishi is 666 Satan’s author. Their art has been remarked as being very similar and accusations of plagiarism were made, either that Seishi had copied his brother or vice versa. However, Seishi notes in one of the volumes of his manga that the similarities are not intentional and that the occurrence would have been likely because they have been influenced by many of the same things. After several accusations, Masashi Kishimoto has asked that fans stop calling his brother a "copy-cat". His former assistants were ITAKURA Yuuichi, TASAKA Ryou and KAJISA Osamu. While IKEMOTO Mikio, TAIRA Kenji and OKUBO Akira were his assistants and now are his collaborators. His favorite manga and anime are Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, HUNTER x HUNTER, Ninku, AKIRA, Ghost in the Shell & Jin-Roh