Naruto Will Soon End With Climactic Conclusion Says Its Creator Kishimoto

The creator of the world's best selling manga-anime series Naruto has announced that the series is about to conclude with a big climax, according to Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha Magazine in February. Kishimoto is the artist and writer responsible for creating the original story and the resulting manga books and Anime television series, working with Japanese publishers and anime movie companies and film houses.

Naruto began with a single one-comic story by Kishimoto first published in August, 1997, and then several manga books were published in Japan which sold millions of copies. Eventually the series also went to television as an anime series and has had over 260 episodes and 10 full length movies created in Japan. Worldwide, the manga books have sold 113 million copies, making it the world's biggest selling manga book series.

"Manga" is a style of graphic novel that originated in Japan and has been the basis of the Anime television and movie industry also originating out of Japan.

The storyline shows Naruto as a young ninja who is studying - like most other children in the series - to be a high-ranking warrior in the ninja tradition. In the world that artist/writer Kishimoto has created, the ninja have superhuman abilities that are based in "chakra" which is also a Japanese cultural idea rooted in Japanese manga storylines and Japanese spiritual culture. Originally Kishimoto was concerned that his use of the spiritual chakra mythology; superhuman based ninja might isolate the books to Japan, but since then it has not been a problem because the books have sold 113 million copies worldwide and have brought the chakra ideas and unique Japanese perspectives to an international audience.

Unique to Kishimoto's created Naruto world is a modern use of convenience stores, rap music, and a contemporary soundtrack for the television series, as well as street slang for the characters. Omitted from the storyline are all vehicles, projectile weapons, guns, phones and there is no modern technology. There are also no guns in the series, making the fight scenes focus on magical style ninja chakra abilities combined with traditional martial arts, albeit the martial arts in Naruto are much more incredible and advanced due to the superhero anime style of the series.

Fans have said that they love the mixture of comedy and romance combined with the ninja storyline.