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Naoki Urasawa浦沢直樹

Original Creator and Director on Monster, PLUTO and MASTER Keaton.

anime credits: 9; anime credits
most credited as: Original Creator; most credited as
awards: 5; awards
busiest year (1): 2004; busiest year (1)

Best-known work

Credits per year

Anime Naoki Urasawa worked on, by premiere year

012

1 in 2004

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Item	Credits
94	0 in 1994
95	0 in 1995
96	1 in 1996
97	0 in 1997
98	1 in 1998
99	0 in 1999
00	1 in 2000
01	0 in 2001
02	0 in 2002
03	0 in 2003
04	1 in 2004
05	0 in 2005
06	0 in 2006
07	0 in 2007
08	0 in 2008
09	0 in 2009
10	0 in 2010
11	1 in 2011
12	0 in 2012
13	0 in 2013
14	0 in 2014
15	0 in 2015
16	0 in 2016
17	0 in 2017
18	0 in 2018
19	0 in 2019
20	0 in 2020
21	1 in 2021
22	0 in 2022
23	1 in 2023

All credits

2023PLUTOOriginal Creator, Creative Advisor
2021BoyDirector, Key Animation
2011The Tibetan DogOriginal Character Design
2004MonsterOriginal Creator
2000MASTER Keaton (OVA)Original Creator
1998MASTER KeatonOriginal Creator
1996YAWARA! Special: Zutto Kimi no Koto ga... .Original Creator
1992YAWARA! Sore Yuke Koshinuke Kids!!Original Plan, Original Creator
1989YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl!Original Creator

Profile

Birthday: January 2, 1960
Age: 66
Hometown: Fuchuu, Tokyo, Japan
Active since: 1981
Gender: Male

Awards & links

🏆 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for a Series
🏆 Best foreign work published in Spain
🏆 Seiun Award for Best Comic
🏆 Q116209895
🏆 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Manga

From Wikidata.

About

Naoki Urasawa's 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 hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary (Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Makoto Tezuka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys. No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time 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…

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Frequently asked questions

What anime has Naoki Urasawa worked on?

Naoki Urasawa's best-known work includes Monster (Original Creator), PLUTO (Original Creator), MASTER Keaton (Original Creator), YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl! (Original Creator), MASTER Keaton (OVA) (Original Creator), The Tibetan Dog (Original Character Design).

What does Naoki Urasawa do?

Naoki Urasawa is credited most often as original creator, director, creative advisor on anime.

When was Naoki Urasawa born?

Naoki Urasawa was born on January 2, 1960 in Fuchū.

What awards has Naoki Urasawa won?

Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for a Series, Best foreign work published in Spain, Seiun Award for Best Comic, Q116209895, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Manga.