Masashi Kishimoto’s new manga, Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru, had just been unceremoniously canceled, so the idea of Kishimoto returning to Naruto was billed as him returning to what worked ...

Kishimoto had originally intended for the Third Hokage to be a monkey, and even Naruto was originally supposed to be a fox capable of morphing into a human. However, few know that Kishimoto also ...

Masashi Kishimoto returned to his shonen universe at the tail-end of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, changing the game for the son of the Seventh Hokage and the other ninjas of Konoha.