“Naruto” creator Kishimoto Masashi is back with a new manga series titled “Samurai 8 Hachimaruden”

岸本斉史氏の新連載『サムライ8 八丸伝』の告知カットビジュアル (C)岸本斉史・大久保彰/集英社

Kishimoto Masashi, author of the popular manga series “NARUTO” will kick off another manga series titled “Samurai 8 Hachimaruden” starting next spring on “Weekly Shonen Jump” (Shueisha).

The news was announced at Jump Fest 2019 at Chiba Makuhari Messe and it was also announced that Kishimoto will write, while the artist will be Okubo Akira.

Th new manga series will be sci-fi, which is a genre that Kishimoto enjoys.