Kishimoto: “I Actually Wanted To Write A Ramen Manga”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 21, 2012 02:28 JST
- Tags: Food, Interviews, Mangaka, Marketing, Naruto, Shonen Jump, TV
Naruto mangaka Masashi Kishimoto has been busily embarrassing Narutards with his first ever TV interview, revealing that he initially planned Naruto “to be about ramen” and that “it is aimed at boys in middle school.” Paraphrasing some of his comments, he apparently wanted to write a ramen manga but this was not accepted so he decided to write a manga about not being accepted, for schoolboys and full of ninja – and so Naruto was born:
“I initially thought I would write a story about ramen, but it wasn’t accepted.”
“The theme of ‘wanting to be accepted or recognised’ crops up a lot in my works…”
“So I thought I might do something about Japan and with ninja in it.”
“I treasure the kind of memories boys in middle school have, even if I am getting on a bit.”
“At Shonen Jump we are all rivals.”
There has been a certain amount of despair amongst Naruto fans online at him being so blunt about the manga targeting 2nd year middle school boys (not that this would surprise anyone) – in Japanese the phrase “chuu-ni-byou” (中二病), “8th grader sickness,” is actually slang for behaving in the juvenile manner expected of a knuckle-headed little 14-year-old.
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I'm not surprised in the least.
So Naruto isn't a manga about ninjas, it is a manga about rejected ramen...
NOW I understand.
It is as if a veil has been lifted from my eyes allowing me to see clearly once again...
Please put it back on.
And it so happens Madara is the embodiment of the Flying Spaghetti Monster trying to force his wastern tastes to all of Japan using mind control and making them eat spagetti all day long during breakfast, during work, during classes, during breaks, during lunch, during exercise, during dinner, during sex, during childbirth and on on.
So it's Ramen vs Spaghetti. No wonder I always felt hungry from reading the manga.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Better than having it fall out of their pockets.
No, no the memes.
Stop, I can't take it anymore.
can't be if he was the flying spagethi monster his minions would be pirates
i knew it all along :)
I had a Naruto lunch today and didn't even know it.
Oh no you ate the last of Naruto's Sage chakura clones! Poor idiot, what the fuck is he going to do against Pain.
Feel extremely rejected and run away, hence finally ending the manga.
Rejected ninjas eating rejected ramen fighting people who reject the world......
Reject-ception!! >.>
bro i heard you like rejection
so he wanted to write a ramen menu
Well it was kind of obvious in the name...
So by your logic dragon ball should be an anime based on food since the entire cast is named after either food or undergarments
Pain is actually an embodiment of Kishimoto himself. All the anguish he feels every time he writes Naruto, while wishing it were his true passion: Naruto ramen.
Now that i know the whole thing was about ramen, i guess i will have a little more respect for the manga, since it's not what it was intended to be.
As if it being shounen wasn't enough of a hint at it being marketed to that age group.
I don't see why this would be embarrassing info.
So Narutards are in the same autistic level of Bronies, a bunch of grow men who likes kids stuff.
What say you about people who discriminate against groups of others because they just have different preferences?
thats 4chan and 2ch!
discriminate? Bronies are all autistic to the max, and the same for most fans of anime. I'm sure I could support that with facts, but why bother when it's a plainly obvious fact. Lack of real life social skills, the vocal cadence most nerdy kids have is consistent with those on the spectrum, and an utter lack of awareness of others intentions.
theres nothing wrong being fans of certain genres, its when people get retarded and psycho that s*** hits the fan
Back before the internet was a big thing, liking Batman and The Avengers, and reading their comics made you a "grown man who likes kids stuff." Now everyone shits their pants over them.
I guess pathetic guys like you, who need someone to pick on to make themselves feel big, have chosen anime fans now? The "lack of social skills" is exacerbated by people who think like you. Alienating them and forcing them to socialize only in fandom groups, how do you except them to turn out? Just because of a couple things on their list of interests, you wont let them "play with the other kids." Its your fault they turn out so eccentric.
03:01 is past the denial and now in the anger stage.
and you're half past weeaboo o'clock
whoops, forgot about mod censorship. Don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings when they should be hurt, because some people are a cancer on the face of fandom :( lookin' at you Narutards
anon 03:34 21/07/2012
censorship ? in my sankaku ?
And people like you are the cancer of the Internet.
narutards are kids and very inmature people
bronies are just faggots
Lawl my former school mate who's into that stuff now has a job earning near 7 figures in 1 year. There's nothing wrong with liking kids stuff as a grown man.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm... ramen!
This doesn't change anything, so why all the despair? People sure are stupid.. >_>
chu ni byou is also used for anything semingly "dark" or having to do with dark force and demon in a relatively mediaval setting .
it has turned into yet another way to belittle people and their hobby ..
(pandora's tower is considered "chuu-ni-byou" )
I think they just mean that it's melodramatic like a middleschooler talking about his tragic past of sparkly twilight vampire hunting...
huh, by the end it started to sound awesome...
or acting like a know it all despite being an early teen. It just happens that ones who imitate that stuff (like Kuroneko) come off as haughty, which fits chuu ni byou.
Other signs [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/中二病] apparently include starting to listen to Western music, claiming to like bands before they went mainstream, starting to drink coffee even though they don't like it, thinking they can do something if they just try it, getting embarrassed in front of their mothers and asking to respect their privacy... not sure of the last point. Maybe "taking an interest in history as far as society is concerned and finding America distasteful?"
There's the "evil eye" type you're talking about, who yearn for supernatural powers and stuff, but there are also a subculture-type, and a DQN-type who is antisocial and argues on message boards.
Basically, becoming a teenager.
i know of that definition , but that damn chuu-ni-byou thing is used for soooo many thing other that what is listed up there that's it's not even accurate anymore .
Lol. I would like a ramen anime, kahaha. NEKO RAMEN, GO!!!
- And dat Konan cosplayer......
Ramen Rider!
I bet that it would be much more entretaining but not so famous like Ben-To and Muteki Kanban Musume
This article reveals a lot if you read Naruto.
You're an 8th grader.
Reminds me of what Kuroneko said about stories that pander to the masses and end up selling well.
or what hattori-san said, the ones made to prove a point are, in a way, the real manga.
Kuroneko is far from the only one that says it. There were quite a few hints towards that way of thinking in Bakuman, and it's really just obvious in general. You think a lot of manga are popular simply because they end up being like that? Please. They're made to sell.
Why do you think this entire fucking season of anime is full of ecchi/moe/harems fanservice flicks? They sell.
Why are you so negative Masashi Kishimoto you already have Naruto on a Ramen box you should be happy?
Shit happens in life. My dad wanted to be a pilot, winded up as a sought after engineering manager around the world. He still says he wants to be a pilot , it was harder to find a job for that in his time 30 years ago since there was only 1 airlines in the country back then.
Masashi Kishimoto accomplish something different even if was his goal to make a Manga about Raman he had to go with what he had to go with.
The series is 13 years old, everyone who was in middle school reading it is an adult today and most still read it. I fail to see a problem with that...
Besides anyone can like whatever they want(and so can I), I don't really care about those "target audiences". A lot of shows choose the wrong "target" and fails miserably while others gather people from all genders/ages even when they weren't made for that.