Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-26937472-20151130084303/@comment-17623-20151130235521

FF-Suzaku wrote: Akame of the Demon Sword Murasame wrote: SJ can't do anything without the creator's word I'm not sure how true that is. Naruto is jointly owned by Scott (Kishimoto's studio) and Shueisha. Not like he wouldn't give his blessing on new stuff by other authors, anyway.

As far as I can gather, since about maybe 2 or 3 years ago, manga writers no longer own their series, the publishers do. So I guess for Naruto's case it is Shueisha.

History lesson for yeh, that's part of the reason why the Negima manga ended so abruptly; he was about to lose control of the series so he ended it on his terms. The question becomes how much of what I just said is correct because the man wrote UQ Holder not long after.