Naoki Urasawa

Born: 1960-01-02

Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide.


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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 2018-01-20

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical...

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Manga World

as Self
Released: 2005-01-30

Filmed in Japan, this program looks beyond the stereotypes to objectively examine the history of...

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ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION

as Self - Manga Artist
First aired: 2023-04-30

The size of the Japanese animation market was 2,426 billion yen by 2020. More than half of that...

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Manben: Behind the Scenes of Manga with Urasawa Naoki

as uncredited
First aired: 2015-09-04

Urasawa Naoki no Manben (Naoki Urasawa's Manga Exertions) is a TV Documentary airing on NHK...

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Naoki Urasawa's Manben neo

as Self - Presenter
First aired: 2020-10-01

Reboot of the original Manben series from 2014-2017. Naoki Urasawa is returning to visit eight...

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