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Naoki Urasawa ( (うら) (さわ) (なお) () Urasawa Naoki?) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the Monster series, as well as the spin-off novel Another Monster. He was born on January 2nd, 1960 in Fuchū, Tōkyō, Japan.

Biography[]

As a child, Urasawa admired Osamu Tezuka's comics and copied them down many times. He was also a highly artistically sensitive child, and realized outright that some cartoons were drawn by different teams each episode or which cartoons had the same animators.

Despite this, he did not follow an art career and went for a career in Economy instead. He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics.

Urasawa became a mangaka by accident. He had an interview scheduled with Shogakukan and showed them some of his work, then "one thing led to another", as he explains.

Serialized works[]

English title Japanese title Original run
Pineapple Army パイナップルARMY
Painappuru Āmī
1985—1988
Yawara! ヤワラ
Yawara
1986—1993
Master Keaton MASTERキートン
Masutā Kīton
1988—1994
Happy! ハッピー
Happī
1993—1999
Monster モンスター
Monsutā
1994—2001
20th Century Boys 20 (せい) () (しょう) (ねん)
Nijusseiki Shōnen
1999—2006
Pluto プルートゥ
Purūtō
2003—2009
21st Century Boys 21 (せい) () (しょう) (ねん)
Nijūisseiki Shōnen
2006—2007
Billy Bat ビリーバット
Birī Batto
2008—2016
Master Keaton Remaster MASTERキートン Reマスター
Masutā Kīton Rimasutā
2012—2014
Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams () (じるし)
Mujirushi
2017—2018
Asadora! (れん) (ぞく) (まん) () (しょう) (せつ) あさドラ!
Renzoku Manga Shōsetsu Asadora!
2018—

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