Naruto fans may have heard about illustrator Michio Icemoto, because of his close connection to the genre defined by Shanno Manga, but Ikemoto has long been a significant creative force. When Naruto's creator Masashi Kishimoto just began as a debut manga, Ikemoto has already collected a cult-monitoring for his one-off manga debut, Cosmos. Once Kishimoto launches a series of "Naruto" for ShuishisaHe deliberately sought Icemoto and recruited him in the main assistant role that would be included between 1999 and 2014. Icemoto's contributions helped Naruto develop into a polished series of manga, as its responsibilities include drawing fuss/backgrounds, creating new designs of scratching characters and semi-tone. While Kishimoto undoubtedly fulfilled the "Naruto" in the desired story today, Ikemoto quietly helped the creative process in ways that should not be overlooked.

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Part II of the "Naruto" Manga series was always supposed to end up in hope. Our heroes, including the titular blonde issue, turned to Hokage, participate in the climate war and solve long -standing complaints. Manga ends with a promise of a brighter future for the next generation of Shinobi, who inadvertently carry their parents' legacy and their complicated past. So When Kishimoto decides to work on spin-off/sequel that revolves around Naruto's son, BorutoHe was unmoved to bring Icemoto together as part of his basic art team. This was essentially Only The Kishimoto state before working on a sequel "Naruto", which explained in detail during the anime convention in France last year (through CBR).

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For the context, "Boruto" eventually began a series of 2016 under a new writer (Ukic Kodachi, who also wrote episodes in the Anime "Dangaronpa 3" by acting as an editorial supervisor until the coders withdrew in 2020. The style of the second in "Boruto" feels pretty easy and any differences Just serve to illustrate the clear lighter tone of the sequel.

"Naruto" may feel convoluted due to episodic arcs that can be considered fillingBut these stories of foam/mixed canon are an integral part of the understanding of the future it leads. During the anime event in 2024, in the spotlight of "Boruto: Naruto" of the film in 2015 and Some of the best combat sequences of Naruto, Kishimoto explained that he had already had a plan for "Boruto" (where the ethos of "Naruto" was directly introduced into this fresh story) before writing/drew a page. He emphasized the cooperation of the nature of the project, in which Icemoto's contribution as the primary artist was non-addressing from receiving:

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"Ikemoto-San creates him (boards with stories with dialogue in draft phase) every month. With ideas, development and characters that exceed my draft for the story (for" Boruto "). Well, although I check it every month, I hardly have something to say. Ikemoto-San is someone I believe and who has been helping for a long time in the "Parito" production team. Telling stories.

This is enthusiastic approval, one that can be followed by 2014, which was when Naruto ended. Even then, Kisimoto had "no worries" about "Boruto" as an extended story, as he wrote the great drafts of stories and handed them to Icemoto. Every differences in the approach were thrilled, cementing the fact that Boruto always had to be a collaboration Icemoto-Kishimoto, with the former taking over the franchise art.

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In the same interview, Ikemoto also shed light on the rivalry Boruto-Kawaki in the manga, explaining how Boruto is already omitted character (unlike his father, who had to constantly fight for personal growth). Here, Kawaki is the one to develop as a complex de -tergonist, but he is quite different from Sassuke, who served as a friend of Naruto, turned into a diving into the original series:

"Boruto, after becoming a young man, is a character who is fully evolved at a time from the beginning. He is insightful and with a great open mind. Compared to Kawaki, the importance of what he wears on his shoulders is different. It will be more like Kawaki showing evolution as a character.

While waiting for anime "Boruto" to adapt to Part II, you can use all 293 episodes in Part I - a fully worth your time.