Naruto Creator Masashi Kishimoto Comments on His Next Manga Samurai 8

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Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga Anime Reveals 2nd Promo Video, 10 More Cast Members, Opening Theme Artist

The official website for Studio DEEN's original television anime series Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga began streaming the show's second promotional video on Sunday. The video reveals and previews Rib's opening theme song "Shissō" (Sprint). The video also previews May'n's ending theme song "Kiba to Tsubasa" (Fang and Wing).

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The site also revealed 10 more cast members:

Taiten Kusunoki as Oda Nobuhide

Hidenari Ugaki as Shibata Katsuie

Mugihito as Hirate Masahide

Kenichirou Matsuda as Hayashi Hidesada

Kousuke Toriumi as Hayashi Michitomo

Ryohei Kimura as Sakuma Nobumori

Atsushi Tamaru as Sakuma Morishige

Ayumu Murase as Oda Hidetaka

Masako Katsuki as Dota Gozen

Tesshō Genda as Saitō Dōsan

The anime will give a "bold interpretation" on historical figure Oda Nobunaga starting with his youth as an early teen. The series will follow him and his rivalry with his younger brother Nobuyuki. The show will premiere in July and will air in Japan on Tokyo MX, AT-X, WOWOW, and BS-Fuji, and will stream on the d Anime Store.

The show will star:

Yūsuke Kobayashi as Oda Nobunaga

Yūma Uchida as Ikeda Tsuneoki

Kaito Ishikawa as Oda Nobuyuki

Yumiri Hanamori as Kichō, Saitō Dōsan's daughter

Takuma Terashima as Maeda Toshiie, Oda Nobunaga's vassal

Shinnosuke Tachibana as Takugen Sōon

Junya Enoki as Takigawa Kazumasu

Manami Numakura as Ohana

Nao Tōyama as Oichi

Minori Suzuki as Ikoma Kitsuno

Makoto Takahashi as Sassa Narimasa

Tomoaki Maeno as Murai Sadakatsu

Satoshi Hino as Tsuzuki Kurando

(Note: Historical Japanese names are listed here with family name first.)

The anime will reunite the staff of the Hakuōki anime franchise, including character designer Atsuko Nakajima, script supervisor Ryota Yamaguchi, and scriptwriter Megumu Sasano. Additionally, Kaoru Sawada (Diamond Daydreams, Junji Ito "Collection") is also writing the scripts, and Noriyuki Abe (Yū Yū Hakusho, Bleach, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, The Heroic Legend of Arslan) is directing the series. Yūsuke Shirato (Lost Song) is composing the music at Flying Dog.

Author Sasano launched a novel adaptation in Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine on January 10. The novel serves as both a prequel and a spinoff.

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Naruto Creator Masashi Kishimoto Comments on His Next Manga Samurai 8

Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto held a press conference at Shueisha in March to share information about the upcoming Samurai 8: Hachimaruden manga, which will be written by Kishimoto and drawn by Akira Ōkubo.

Kishimoto began by talking about Naruto, which he launched in 1999 and completed in 2014. After completing the Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring side story manga in 2015, Kishimoto said that he finally felt as if he had been "released." "I got so tired that I lost the energy to draw manga," he said with a laugh. However, even though he had been working on manga for long enough to see a child grow into an adult, it took just two years for him to think: "I want to draw manga again."

"I may have felt like I poured everything into Naruto, but in my heart I knew it wasn't perfect, and that thought tugged at me. Around the time I ended Naruto, I felt like the way to draw manga had finally clicked in me, so I wanted to channel that into my next work."

Samurai 8: Hachimaruden combines samurai with science-fiction. "I love science-fiction and samurai, so I want to draw manga about those themes, but considering my age it's getting unreasonable to throw myself into manga like that, so I decided to combine the two themes into a single work." Kishimoto revealed that the very first manga he submitted to Shueisha was also a samurai story, although it didn't win any prizes. "This manga is kind of a revenge for that," he said, laughing.

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Kishimoto indicated that Samurai 8: Hachimaruden will probably be less accessible than Naruto was because it opens with several pages of jargon, although he has done his best to make it digestible. "If you're a new artist, I wouldn't start out with sci-fi, but I thought that I'd have more leeway coming straight off Naruto."

As for the reason why his former assistant Ōkubo is drawing the art for this new manga, Kishimoto explained that when it comes to a weekly serialized manga, it's impossible to draw all of it by oneself. At some point during the serialization of Naruto, Kishimoto started drawing his outlines for each chapter with the help of Ōkubo. He also said, "It's hard to admit this frankly, but Ōkubo's art is so good that in my heart I can't help but admit defeat."

When asked how Samurai 8: Hachimaruden will be more interesting than Naruto, Kishimoto said, "I thought about it a little while working on Naruto, but I'm more socially conscious now and I would like to put that into my next manga." He also said that one of the themes of the manga will be "It's okay to be imperfect."

"I know it's a contradiction for me to say 'I want to draw the perfect manga' only for it to have the theme 'it's okay to be imperfect,' but it was Naruto's imperfections that motivated me to draw my next manga, and when this one ends, the imperfections will inspire me to draw the next one after that."

As for how long this new manga will be, Kishimoto has no inkling. "Let's just go with 10 volumes for now. I remember saying one time that Naruto would be 15 volumes. It always ends up being longer."

Samurai 8: Hachimaruden will launch in Weekly Shonen Jump's 24th issue on May 13. It will be the first Jump issue of the Reiwa era.

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