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Naoki Urasawa
19 catalogued objects connected to Naoki Urasawa.
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Biography
Person.
Naoki Urasawa (born 1960, Tokyo) is one of the defining manga authors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, renowned for bringing the scale, suspense and moral complexity of the literary thriller into long-form serial comics. He debuted with BETA! in 1983 and built an unusually broad career through works including YAWARA!, MASTER Keaton, Monster, 20th Century Boys and Pluto, moving easily between comedy, adventure, crime, science fiction and psychological drama. His stories are distinguished by cinematic pacing, large casts and an ability to make private choices reverberate across years of political and social history.
Reviewed 2026-09-06Selected sources
- Japan Media Arts Festival — URASAWA Naoki profileBirth year and place, 1983 debut with BETA!, principal works, and Japan Media Arts Festival recognition for Monster, 20th Century Boys and Pluto.
- VIZ Media — Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century BoysCareer range, major works, international publication context, adaptations, Eisner recognition, and other major manga awards.
- VIZ Media — Pluto: Urasawa x TezukaPluto as Urasawa’s reinterpretation of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and the credited involvement of Takashi Nagasaki, Macoto Tezka and Tezuka Productions.
- Japan Media Arts Festival — Naoki Urasawa presents Manben neo: Yoshikazu YasuhikoUrasawa’s role presenting the long-running Manben documentary format and its close documentation and discussion of manga artists’ production methods.
- Shogakukan — 浦沢直樹 描いて描いて描きまくるPublisher framing of Urasawa’s long career, extensive body of work and characteristic strengths in character creation, composition, storytelling and direction.
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PER-B4ACA3B28B52041F
Represented across objects dated 2009–2026.
Search these objects →TMR-000097Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka17 Feb 20097.5 / 10TMR-000098Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka17 Mar 20097.2 / 10TMR-000099Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka19 May 20097.2 / 10TMR-000100Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka21 Jul 20097.2 / 10TMR-000101Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka15 Sep 20097.2 / 10TMR-000102Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka17 Nov 20097.2 / 10TMR-000103Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka19 Jan 20107.2 / 10TMR-000104Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka6 Apr 20107.5 / 10TMR-000105Sneeze20 Oct 20207.5 / 10TMR-000110Asadora!19 Jan 20217 / 10TMR-000111Asadora!20 Apr 20216.8 / 10TMR-000112Asadora!17 Aug 20216.8 / 10TMR-000113Asadora!19 Oct 20216.8 / 10TMR-000114Asadora!19 Apr 20226.8 / 10TMR-000115Asadora!15 Nov 20226.8 / 10TMR-000116Asadora!17 Oct 20236.8 / 10TMR-000117Asadora!19 Nov 20246.8 / 10TMR-000118Asadora!27 Jan 20266.8 / 10TMR-000106Billy Bat2 Jun 20268 / 10