Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-12509038-20150702050604/@comment-24357950-20150705112956

BigBadBruin343 wrote: I know after the movie Kishi is done with Naruto. But the question becomes: does WSJ own the rights to Naruto? In that, can they continue to print new Naruto stories without Kishi? A good example of this (at least in the comic world) is Marvel and DC. Their characters were created by multiple different writers but DC and Marvel own the rights to those characters and thus can continue to publish their titles. Is that the same deal with WSJ and Naruto?

Well Kishimoto is not the sole owner of Naruto. As much as I know Jump does still own the rights Naruto, while TV Tokyo and Pierrot own restricted rights the Naruto anime. I'm certain they can go as far as to produce a new Naruto series not written by Kishimoto himself, like it was done with GT.