Masashi Kishimoto
Question: Who is your favourite character?
Answer: Definately Naruto...Ah, should be Naruto or Jiraiya
for both being straightforward.
They often do things without thinking.
They are just like me. I sometimes make a story without
any plan of what is gonna happen next. I am saying myself
"go ahead and do it" I am as reckless as Naruto and Jiraiya.
Question: why do you think Naruto has become so popular
around the world?
Answer: because it is a Ninja story. Ninja itself is well known around
the world. Plus, Naruto is not a perfect hero. He has become
stronger now, though.
He is a "Hetare" hero ("hetare" means weak, loser in Japanese).
Probably, for that, people feel empathy toward Naruto.
Question: What kind of movie is this?
Answer: I would like to make a true Ninja story, first of all. Recently,
I feel that Naruto is a little bit far from a real Ninja story.
I have always had an intention to make a Ninja story, but it seems it has gone off
a Ninja theme a bit. For this movie, I would like to clearly show that
Naruto IS a Ninja animation and focus on putting Ninja essence and Ninja action in it
And also, I would like to make a story of Naruto Uzumaki as a main character.
Question: Why do you draw the characters performing the seal together?
Answer: Performing seals is a very Ninja act. As I said before, I would
like to make this movie a very Ninja animation.
Question: Please tell us which character you designed?
Answer: Enemies and Sakura's parents.
Question: What is Madara's plan?
Answer: Well, bad things. laugh
I cannot tell everything. Please watch the movie
Question: Please tell a message to all the fans who are looking forward to
this movie.
Answer: To this movie, I dedicated all things that I had always wanted to draw and
I had not been able to draw in the manga.
I gave too much trouble to the movie staff in order to make a good movie, but thanks to them,
the movie is very entertaining.
The video here: link
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