Masashi
Kishimoto was born in Okayama prefecture, Japan. He has a twin brother named
Seishi Kishimoto.
When
Kishimoto was a child, he really likes to watch anime (animated tv-series in
japan). One of his favorite anime is Doraemon. All his friends also like
Doraemon and all of them like to draw Doraemon, but among them Kishimoto was
the most perfectionist, he likes to protest if his friends wrong drawing
Doraemon, then he will show them how to draw correctly.
When in the school, Masashi Kishimoto was more
like drawing than listening to lessons. Even
there is a story about him that still draw while playing hide and seek, waiting
found by his friends. Kishimoto favorite anime while he in elementary school is
Doraemon, until one day he watched the anime Mobile Suit Gundam. Kishimoto begun
to shift his drawing from simple character like Doraemon to more complex
character like Gundam.
