About Manga Art

INFO ON THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MANGA ARTIST

Masashi Kishimoto

Born: November 8, 1974
Birthplace: Okayama, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Manga artist
Residence: Okayama Prefecture
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 57 kg

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the hugely popular manga series known as Naruto. Born in the Katsuta county of Okayama, Japan, Kishimoto has been drawing from a very early age. But it wasn't until he was older that he recognized his dream to become a Mangaka (Mangaka is the Japanese meaning for cartoonist).

While in art college Kishimoto created a manga called "Karakuri" which he then submitted to the Hop Step award (Monthly award given by Shonen Jump for amateur Mangaka). Karakuri wins the award and sets Kishimoto on the path to his dream of becoming a Mangaka.

Upon graduation of art college, Kishimoto works hard on his next manga "Naruto" which the pilot is then published in Akamaru Jump in 1997. Two years down the line and Naruto is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and becomes the Naruto you know and love today. Naruto is still an ongoing series and has sold over 100 million copies in Japan alone since first being published in 1999.


Manga created by Masashi Kishimoto

- Karakuri one-shot (1996, Hop Step Award winner)
- Naruto pilot (1997, published in Akamaru Jump)
- Karakuri (April 1998 – May 1998)
- Naruto (November 1999 – ongoing)

Books written by Masashi Kishimoto
- Naruto: First Official Data Book
- Naruto: The Official Fanbook
- The Art of Naruto: Uzumaki
- Naruto: Second Official Data Book
- Paint Jump: Art of Naruto
- Naruto: Third Official Data Book
- The Art of Naruto: Naruto
- Naruto: The Official Premium Fanbook

Plans About What I Will Put In my Blog

This part is all about parts i will put in the comic about manga and anime that i am producing later on in my project.
So firstly,I will start with explaining what i would include in my comic starting with the front cover,the front cover will have a picture of popular and well known manga and anime characters,along with that will be special feature at the front is a disk and on that disk would be of my tutorial of how to draw professional step by step manga drawings with easily understandable instructions.


On the second page,it will explain all you need to know about manga and anime and where it originated from,also how it has progressed over the years.
This page will hopefully answer most of people's questions and tell them a lot about this exciting topic.

The Opening to my Anime Research

This project will be all about japanese art such as manga and anime and i will be doing research on this topic and running analysis on it,o i have made this blog to show off my research in the form of a blog.