Kishimoto wanted Naruto and Sasuke to seem like brothers and rivals, building on a mutual experience of childhood loneliness. To contrast Sasuke with Naruto, Kishimoto made him less emotional and depicted him as a "cool genius" he felt he had created an ideal rivalry in the pair, and when one character progressed he ensured the other did as well.
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He was also inspired by his relationship with his twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto since childhood, Masashi had worried about Seishi when he faced failure and had tried to help him. Kishimoto had read a variety of manga to obtain ideas for the creation of an effective rivalry between two characters, which he incorporated into Naruto and Sasuke's relationship. Since the beginning of the story's serialization, Kishimoto planned to conclude the series with a fight between Sasuke and Naruto, but he was uncertain whether the characters would end up as friends or enemies. During this period, he was asked whether Sasuke was good or evil he replied that Sasuke was neither and called him a "very pure person." He said although some of Sasuke's actions such as following his clan's ideas were positive, his self-centeredness tended to cause problems with others. When plot developments made Sasuke one of the story's antagonists, Kishimoto called him and Naruto yin and yang because of their differences and complementary natures. Once creating Sasuke's character, Kishimoto decided to use him as a protagonist rather than supporting character in order to start his development at the same time as Naruto. The idea was scrapped Yahagi told Kishimoto to focus the series' first two chapters on introducing Naruto instead and the focus on Sasuke and the rest of the supporting characters were shown in the next chapters for the first time. To introduce Sasuke, Kishimoto wrote a chapter that was set before the formation of his ninja squad, Team 7. The character's first name came from Sanpei Shirato's manga Sasuke and Sarutobi Sasuke, a fictional ninja character in Japanese children's stories. Discussing the series' future, his editor, Kosuke Yahagi, advised him to add a rival character for the protagonist Naruto and he created Sasuke. Manga artist Masashi Kishimoto did not include Sasuke Uchiha in his original concept for the Naruto series, a story revolving around the character Naruto Uzumaki. Character-based merchandise, including action figures and key chains, have been released. Sasuke has also placed highly in Naruto reader popularity polls and has also been the subject of studies by scholars. Nevertheless, Sasuke's characterization in latter parts of the story and more mature personality in the Boruto sequel earned further positive comments. His impressive fighting skills, plot contribution, and rivalry with Naruto Uzumaki received some praise, but he was criticized as a stereotypical rival in the mold of similar characters from other shōnen manga and as exhibiting a cold personality. Sasuke's character has received mixed responses from anime and manga publications. In the manga's animated adaptations, Sasuke was voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama in Japanese and Yuri Lowenthal in English. Nonetheless, Kishimoto has grown to enjoy drawing him. Despite Sasuke's dark character development later in the story, Kishimoto avoided portraying him as a villain he found designing the character challenging and had difficulty creating a suitable look for him. Kishimoto conceived Sasuke as a rival of the series' title character Naruto Uzumaki.
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Sasuke appears in several of the series' animated feature films and related media, including video games, original video animations ( OVAs), and Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015) and its manga sequel, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2016), in which he is depicted as a vigilante supporting his village and a mentor to Naruto's son Boruto Uzumaki. Despite becoming empathetic toward his teammates Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno, Sasuke's feelings of powerlessness force him to abandon his friends and his home in his quest to become stronger, and to find Orochimaru. Most of its members were massacred by Sasuke's older brother, Itachi Uchiha, before the series began, leaving Sasuke one of the few living.
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Sasuke belongs to the Uchiha clan, a notorious ninja family, and one of the most powerful, allied with Konohagakure ( 木ノ葉隠れの里, English version: "Hidden Leaf Village"). Sasuke Uchiha ( Japanese: うちは サスケ, Hepburn: Uchiha Sasuke) ( / ˈ s ɑː s k eɪ/) is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime franchise created by Masashi Kishimoto.
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Sasuke Uchiha as seen in Part I (right), Part II (left), and the finale as well as the Boruto film and series (middle)