Naoki Urasawa

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/urasawanaoki YouTubehttps://www..com/channel/UCkIFOAoFm47XOAlJwTa6Ieg Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4kmbC7n35u81LaR7VKyaaX Naoki Urasawas career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960 Urasawa debuted with BETA in 1983 and hasnt stopped his impressive output since. Wellversed in a variety of genres Urasawas oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects such as a romantic comedy Yawara A Fashionable Judo Girlhttps://anilist.co/manga/30853/Yawara/ a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary Pineapple ARMYhttps://anilist.co/manga/30859/PineappleArmy/ story by Kazuya Kudohttps://anilist.co/staff/97206/KazuyaKudo a captivating psychological suspense story Monsterhttps://anilist.co/manga/30001/Monster/ a scifi adventure manga 20th Century Boyshttps://anilist.co/manga/30003/20thCenturyBoys/ and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga Osamu Tezukahttps://anilist.co/staff/96938/OsamuTezuka Pluto: Urasawa x Tezukahttps://anilist.co/manga/30745/Pluto/ coauthored with Takashi Nagasakihttps://anilist.co/staff/112205/TakashiNagasaki supervised by Makoto Tezukahttps://anilist.co/staff/104143/MakotoTezuka and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productionshttps://anilist.co/studio/200/TezukaProductions. Many of his books have spawned popular animated and liveaction TV programs and films and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three liveaction Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys. No stranger to accolades and awards Urasawa is a threetime recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award a twotime recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize and has received the Kodansha Manga Award. Similarly Monster has been nominated twice for the Eisner Award in America. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University where he teaches courses in of course manga.