2012, story planning and original character designer The Last: Naruto the Movie — 2014, original story, original character designer and chief story supervisor Boruto: Naruto the Movie — 2015, original story, screenwriter, original character designer and chief production supervisor Video games Tekken 6 — 2009, guest character designer Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution — 2014, character designer and editorial supervisor Artbooks — 2004 — 2008 — 2010 — 2015 Novels — 2010, illustrator, co-author — 2012, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2015, illustrator — 2016, illustrator — 2016, illustrator — 2016, illustrator — 2016, illustrator Other Strings on Fire by Chisako Takashima — 2015, special album cover artist Learning Japanese History Through Manga, Volume 1 — 2016, cover artist Learning Japanese History Through Manga, Volume 5 — 2016, cover artist Personal life Kishimoto is the twin brother of Seishi Kishimoto, the author of 666 Satan and Blazer Drive. In 2003, Kishimoto married, but did not take a honeymoon with his wife until 2015 due to being busy with Naruto. In the making of The Last: Naruto the Movie, Kishimoto based the idea of Hinata Hyuga wanting to make a scarf for Naruto Uzumaki on how his wife had once done the same for him, which brought laughs to the staff while developing the film. The couple has one son. Influences and style While as a child Kishimoto enjoyed reading manga, he was inspired to write one after seeing a promotional image for the film Akira. This made him analyze the artwork of Akiras original author, Katsuhiro Otomo, as well as Akira Toriyama, another artist he admired. Realizing both had their own style regarding the designs, Kishimoto decided to draw manga while crafting his own images. While attending art school, Kishimoto was also an avid reader of Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal, and extensively studied Samura's page layouts, action sequences, and anatomical techniques. When Kishimoto was originally creating the Naruto series, he looked to other shōnen manga for influences while attempting to make his characters as unique as possible. Kishimoto cites Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series as one of his influences, noting that Goku, the protagonist, was a key factor when creating Naruto Uzumaki due to his energetic and mischievous personality. When redesigning three characters for the series,