Naoki Urasawa

Naoki Urasawa (Japanese浦 沢 直树, Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960 in Fuchū, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.

Career

Urasawa studied economics at the Meisei University. After graduating in 1982, he applied according to their own statements without great expectations when Shogakukan publishing as a manga artist and won a Young Investigator Award for the short story return there. The story was not published, but was added only in 1988 in the short story collection A • N • S • A.

Urasawas first published work, the short story Beta! , Appeared in 1984. Until 1986, he had more short stories, only to begin his first series. Pineapple Army was created in collaboration with the scenarist Kazuya Kudō and appeared until 1988. Was His first major success of the manga Yawara! , With whom he already began shortly after the first publication Pineapple Army. Yawara! , Which was filmed in a popular anime series, tells the story of a girl who is an exceedingly talented judoka, but really just wants to be a normal girl. In 1988 followed the next success with the crime drama Master Keaton, which was also translated into an anime and is considered one of the most popular manga of his 1980.

Until the mid- 1990s published Urasawa more episodes of Yawara! and Master Keaton. With Happy! he tried again at a sports manga, but could not on the success of Yawara! Connect. As of 1995, appeared monster. The gambling in Germany crime thriller was his international breakthrough and also appeared in the form of an animated series. His next manga 20th Century Boys was similarly successful both with readers and critics.

Naoki Urasawa 2007, 21st Century Boys, the sequel to 20th Century Boys, in only 2 volumes ready.

Until February 2009, he worked on Pluto, a remake of Osamu Tezuka's classic episode of Astro Boy, published in offshoots of the Big Comic magazine.

Currently he is working since October 2008 Billy Bat, while it revolves around a comic book writer who travels to Japan to come around a 2000 year old cartoon on the track.

Style

Urasawas manga aimed at grown men ( His ). The proportions of his figures are usually very realistic; detailed backgrounds, which he sometimes emerges from photos, are also to be found. This Urasawa often operates extensive inquiries. For example, he drew the society and culture of Germany into monsters by the knowledge he has acquired from books.

His comics play in different scenarios. While the stories of 20th Century Boys and Yawara! act almost exclusively in Japan, travels the main character of monsters around in Central Europe and Keaton Taichi Hiraga from Master Keaton decides to move in his investigations in the whole world.

Urasawa has drawn since Monster exclusively on voltage oriented thriller. Humorous sports manga like Yawara! missing in his later work.

Awards

Urasawa has received numerous awards for his manga series, including the following:

  • Yawara: 35th Shogakukan Manga Award in the main category (1990 )
  • Monsters: 3 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize - 1st Media Arts Award, 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the main category (2001)
  • 20th Century Boys: 25th Kodansha Manga Award, 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the main category (2003), 6 Media Arts Award
  • Pluto: 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize - (2005)

Works

  • Pineapple Army (パイナップルARMY ), 1986-1988, together with Kazuya Kudō
  • Yawara! , 1986-1993
  • Odoru Keikan (踊る 警官), 1987, short story collection
  • N • A • S • A, 1988, short story collection
  • Master Keaton (MASTERキートン, Master Kiton ), 1988-1994, together with Katsushika Hokusei
  • Shiro wa Shinanai (シロ は 死な ない), 1990, together with Kenzo Kitakata; not a manga, but a children's book with illustrations by Urasawa
  • Jigoro! , 1994, short story collection
  • Happy!, 1994
  • Monsters, 1994-2001
  • Keaton Dōbutsuki (キートン 動物 記, Kiton Dōbutsuki ), 1995, together with Katsushika Hokusei
  • Shoki no Urasawa ( Urasawa初期 の), 2000, collection of short stories; contains the contents of Odoru Keikan (1987) and N • A • S • A ( 1988) and four other short stories
  • 20th Century Boys (20世纪 少年, 20 - seiki shōnen ), 2000-2006
  • 21st Century Boys (21世纪 少年, 21 - seiki shōnen ), 2006-2007
  • Pluto, 2003-2009
  • Billy Bat, since 2008
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