Naruto Anime Profiles, Vol. 2: Hiden Shippu Emaki, Paperback

Anime episodes #1-37 fully covered Original illustration poster by Masashi Kishimoto reproduced in anime style. Kishimoto answers questions.Production art of the anime. Full of special color illustrations. Secrets you need to know when watching the Naruto anime

Author/artist Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural Okayama Prefecture, Japan. After spending time in art college, he won the Hop Step Award for new manga artists with his manga Karakuri ("Mechanism"). Kishimoto decided to base his next story on traditional Japanese culture. His first version of Naruto, drawn in 1997, was a one-shot story about fox spirits; his final version, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999, quickly became the most popular ninja manga in Japan.