Weekly Shonen Jump is celebrating a major milestone: 100 million published comics. Fans of Naruto, which is published in Weekly Shonen Jump, can help sponsor a tree in Naruto’s Forest with a campaign put together by the Japanese publishing company Shueisha and PresentTree to commemorate this achievement.
The goal is to plant and nurture 7,510 trees on the mountainsides in the Yamanashi prefecture, west of Tokyo. The saplings will be cared for over the next ten years to help them mature into a forest. Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto, has sketched out an image as to what the forest will look like when the planted saplings grow up.
Both Japanese and international fans of the series are encouraged to enter the contest to sponsor one of the trees. Contest winners will receive a certificate that contains information about their tree along with a number. Each tree will have a posted sign with that number so winners will be able to locate their sapling.
Source: Anime News Network
