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Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: 浦沢 直樹, Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960) 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.
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka (stylized in all caps), or simply Pluto, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan 's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to April 2009, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes.
Pluto is a Japanese eight-episode original net animation (ONA) produced by Genco with animation production services by Studio M2. Written by Heisuke Yamashita and Tatsurou Inamoto, it is based on the Pluto: Urasawa × Tezuka manga series by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, in turn based on the story arc "The Greatest Robot on Earth" from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.
A live-action film adaptation directed by Kazuo Yoshida and starring Yui Asaka was released by Toho in April 1989. That same year, Kitty Films and Madhouse began an anime adaptation titled Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl!. It was broadcast on Yomiuri TV from October 1989 through September 1992, for 124 episodes.
Monster (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa.It was published by Shogakukan in its seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original between December 1994 and December 2001, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes.
Madhouse produced adaptations of Urasawa's Yawara!, Master Keaton, and Monster, with Masayuki Kojima helming the latter two. The company has animated a number of CLAMP's titles, including Tokyo Babylon , two versions of X (a theatrical movie and a TV series), Cardcaptor Sakura and its sequel Clear Card , and Chobits .
Asadora!, written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, started in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits on October 6, 2018. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Asadora! is Urasawa's first work published digitally and his first work in the magazine since 21st Century Boys , serialized in 2007. [ 7 ]
From 2003 to 2009, Naoki Urasawa wrote the series Pluto, with help from Takashi Nagasaki. It adapts Astro Boy' s "The Greatest Robot on Earth" ( 地上最大のロボット , Chijō Saidai no Robotto ) arc (which story Urasawa says "has been enshrined as a centerpiece in the literature of our generation" [ 18 ] ) into a murder mystery. [ 19 ]