The official website for Shueisha 's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine opened a teaser website with a "countdown to the next generation." The teaser site features the logo and the silhouettes of characters from Masashi Kishimoto 's Naruto manga , and the website's HTML source includes meta tags for the keyword " Naruto ."

The countdown will end at 3:30 p.m. on December 19 — the first day of the Jump Festa convention. There will be a Naruto stage event from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. at Jump Festa .

Kishimoto ended his main Naruto manga after 15 years of serialization last November. He then wrote the Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring one-volume sequel manga, and also worked on the script and character designs and served as the chief production supervisor on the Boruto -Naruto the Movie- film sequel. A series of novels continued the story after the manga's end.

At a preview screening for Boruto -Naruto the Movie- in July, Boruto voice actress Yuko Sanpei said that she "wanted to see the films continue," and Kishimoto responded with a wry smile, "I can't. Please let me rest now." After finishing Naruto , Kishimoto said, "During this time, I finally went on my honeymoon. Even though my son has grown as big as [protagonist Naruto 's son] Boruto ." Kishimoto had gotten married over a decade ago.

Kishimoto attended this year's New York Comic Con event on October 8-11. He confirmed that he is working on plans for his next manga, a science-fiction story.

[Via 0takomu]