ドラゴンボール (Dragon Ball) influenced NARUTO -ナルト- (Naruto)

Masashi Kishimoto has described copying Toriyama's drawings as a child and has named Dragon Ball as the manga that made him want to make manga. The inheritance is structural. The tournament arc as a way of introducing a whole cast and ranking it; training as the thing the story is actually about; the power ceiling raised again with each arc so that last volume's villain becomes this volume's ally; the loud, hungry, underestimated hero. Kishimoto's own tribute in 2024 described Dragon Ball as the thing he had been chasing his whole career.