Since a young age, Masashi Kishimoto has read manga.
In August 2015, Kishimoto announced that he already has finalized what he wants to do for his next manga series
 However, during the same year, Kishimoto started reading Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin (the latter of which was published in Weekly Shonen Jump), which used the said genre

