Naoki Urasawa

Writing

Born: 1960-01-02
From: Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.4

Also Known As

浦澤直樹浦沢 直樹

Biography

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.

Awards & Nominations5 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Manga

Billy Bat

2013
🏆 Won

Seiun Award for Best Comic

Pluto

2010
🏆 Won

Seiun Award for Best Comic

20th Century Boys

2008
🏆 Won

Best foreign work published in Spain

20th Century Boys

2006
🏆 Won

Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for a Series

2004