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>Shihei Lin: Although you express yourselves in different mediums, manga and music, you lead the charge in your respective fields, and are from the same generation, so I imagine you grew up influenced by similar things. Are there any movies, music, or manga that you both feel shaped you? Stuff where you're like "This is what we grew up on?"
>Kenshi Yonezu: Speaking of Jump, I really loved Naruto. Naruto is like the origin point for shonen manga for me. I remember when I was in elementary school, I used to do tons of Naruto copy drawings.
(Note : Uses the word term 模写 mosha which is a common way for young artists in Japan to learn by copying manga art to study anatomy, composition, and linework)
>Tatsuki Fujimoto: The art in Naruto is really amazing.
>Kenshi Yonezu: Yeah, right?
>Tatsuki Fujimoto: It's like, the number of lines isn't that high, but the artist is someone with incredible drafting skills because he drew such three dimensional pictures with just simple lines. That actually made it harder to copy. In some art, you can kind of get away by adding more lines to make it appear dense, but Naruto is just on another level of skill.
>Kenshi Yonezu: When I read the Naruto manga volumes, there were these little essay-like sections by (Masashi) Kishimoto-sensei in between the chapters.
They're spitting facts.
I've always loved Kishimoto's art.