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Naoki Urasawa
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
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 simult…
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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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2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Movie Creative Director
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2023
PLUTO
TV show Creative Consultant
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2023
ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION
TV show Self - Manga Artist
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2021
Boy
Movie Director
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2020
Naoki Urasawa's Manben neo
TV show Self - Presenter
- 2018
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2015
Song FUKUYAMA
TV show
- 2015
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2013
Mighty Boy
Movie Original Story
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2011
Tibetan Dog
Movie Character Designer
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2009
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
Movie Comic Book
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2009
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Movie Comic Book
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2008
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
Movie Screenplay
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2006
Happy!
TV show Original Story
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2006
Happy!
Movie Comic Book
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2005
Manga World
Movie Self
More credits
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2004
Monster
TV show Comic Book
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1998
Master Keaton
TV show Comic Book
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1996
Yawara! Atlanta Special
Movie Creator
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1992
Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!!
Movie Creator
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1989
Yawara!
TV show Writer
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1989
Yawara!
Movie Comic Book
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TEZUKA! God of Manga
Movie Self
