posted on 2025-08-28 22:33 EDT by Ken Iikura-Gross
Hiccup tames Toothless while Naruto tames Gamakichi
The Naruto franchise and Universal Pictures Japan announced on Friday that Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto drew an original crossover illustration of Naruto and the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film. Kishimoto also commented on the new film saying, “The animated How to Train Your Dragon was so entertaining, that among my fellow manga creators, it’s known as a highly polished masterpiece.” The manga creator continued, “Now it’s being made into a live-action version, and boy, is it entertaining! Riding on the back of a live-action dragon feels many times better! You can fly!”
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Kishimoto serialized Naruto in Shueisha ‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine between September 1999 to November 2014. The series saw two massively popular anime series (Naruto and Naruto Shippūden ), several feature-length films, novels, theater productions, a kabuki production, among others. Following the conclusion of the Naruto manga series, a sequel series named Boruto began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016 and subsequently moved to V Jump in 2019.
How to Train Your Dragon is a live-action adaptation of DreamWorks Animation ‘s 2010 animated film of the same name, based on the 2003 novel How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. The live-action film opened in theaters in the United States on June 13 and will open in Japan on September 5.
Sources: Naruto’s X/ Twitter account, Universal Pictures’ Japanese X/Twitter account, Naruto’s website, How to Train Your Dragon’s Japanese website, Comic Natalie
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