Como já tinha mencionado no Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja Calendário Promocional, o mestre Kishi foi entrevistado pela Sakiyomi Jan Bang na TV Tokyo. Em baixo deixo o vídeo dessa entrevista.

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Kishimoto-sensei: The character/characters hard to make was/were the enemy/enemies. Who should they be? The meeting about it went on for about 6 or 7 hours. At first everyone was laughing but as time went by we got reticent without laughter… heh… in a horrible atmosphere, we were like “What do we do with it?” Just then, Oonishi-san in charge provided a very fitting idea for us. And I hated to admit that was the answer. Although I wanted to come up with the idea myeslf, I’m so thankful to my editor(=Mr. Oonishi) about that.