Naruto #57 was published by Shueisha on August 1, 2011, as part of a series that began in 2000. Masashi Kishimoto writes. This 180-page issue features Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake and Shikamaru Nara, among 63 characters cataloged on VerseDB.