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Masashi Kishimoto's birth
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Masashi Kishimoto
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Masashi Kishimoto's first work
Masashi Kishimoto's first work as a manga artist was Karakuri (カラクリ?), which he submitted to Shueisha in 1995. -
His first Hop-Step Award
Karakuri earned him the Weekly Shōnen Jump's monthly "Hop Step Award" in 1996, granted to promising new manga artists. -
One shot release for Naruto
In summer 1997 the first one-shot of Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto was published in the Akamaru Jump Summer . -
Karakury cancelation
Masashi Kishimoto premiered as a Weekly Shōnen Jump artist with a serialized version of Karakuri in Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it proved unpopular and was canceled soon after. -
Naruto's success
In 1999, a serialized version of Naruto began publication in Weekly Shōnen Jump and quickly became a hit. Naruto is still ongoing, with 60 volumes and 58 released in English, and has sold over 113 million copies in Japan and over 95 million copies were sold in the US followed by over 93 million copies worldwide (outside Japan and United States) as of volume 36, also being adapted into two successful anime series. -
Quill Award
The Naruto manga series has become one of Viz Media's top properties, accounting for nearly 10% of all manga sales in the US in 2006.The seventh volume of Viz's release became the first manga to ever win a Quill Award when it claimed the award for "Best Graphic Novel" in 2006 -
Desing a video game character's costume
In 2009, Masashi Kishimoto designed an extra costume for the video game character Lars Alexandersson for Tekken 6 -
Baseball Manga
In 2010 this character appeared in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 as part of a special cross-promotion. In 2010, Kishimoto also produced a one-shot baseball manga, Bench (ベンチ, Benchi?), as part of Jump's "Top of the Super Legend" project, a series of six one-shot manga by famed Weekly Shōnen Jump artists. For the ninth Naruto film, Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja, Kishimoto will be responsible as both the script and characters' designs.
