Drawing Mikio Ikemoto
In an assistant spotlight included with volume 6 of the manga kishimoto listed ikemoto s duties as.
Drawing mikio ikemoto. As the series went on more and more of the series was taken on by mikio ikemoto. Naruto the movie ukyō kodachi created the plot. Now ikemoto is the main artist behind boruto so it s safe to say his 15 year dedication to kishimoto paid off.
Kishimoto had a fair amount of assistants which is rare for a mangaka and this allowed him to maintain a semblance of a social life outside of work. Naruto the next generations. Despite the differences between their art styles ikemoto uses copic s markers for the colored pages similarly to how kishimoto did with naruto.
Ikemoto uses a more realistic style that reminds me of araki jojo s bizarre adventure. However it was never picked up for serialization presumably because. The boruto anime s director hiroyuki yamashita said he enjoys ikemoto s style praising his oblong landscape layout for frames.
That s why minato s hair doesn t spike up like a discount cloud strife. Mikio ikemoto was the third staff member of scott kishimoto s studio and was an assistant on naruto for fifteen years. Kishi s stuff had a cartoony edge that didn t always jive with the more serious moments so i m seeing the new guy as an improvement.
Special interview with boruto s mangaka mikio ikemoto. The boruto manga is drawn by mikio ikemoto who served as masashi kishimoto s assistant during naruto s 15 year run and illustrated for the naruto light novels so why isn t boruto drawn as well. However kishimoto rejected this offer and proposed his former assistant mikio ikemoto to draw it.
While both kodachi and ikemoto are in charge of the manga kodachi also oversees the anime s adaptation alongside kishimoto. In 2016 he began drawing the. Lydia 1 year ago mikio ikemoto is the manga artist who assisted masashi kishimoto throughout the naruto series and he is now leading the monthly series boruto naruto next generations on weekly shonen jump.