Naoki Urasawa
Japan · On the map · Musicians · Born 1960 · age 66
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.
Naoki Urasawa is read about 1,409 times a day, in 31 languages.One sentence, in one language. That is all the record holds.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
People around Naoki
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Yukihiko Tsutsumi Directed 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Etsushi Toyokawa Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Nana Katase Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Takako Tokiwa Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Hitomi Kuroki Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Toshiaki Karasawa Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Eiko Koike Also in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Teruyuki Kagawa Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Arata Furuta Also in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Morio Asaka Directed Yawara! Atlanta Special (1996)
Hiroyuki Miyasako Also in Happy! (2006)- Toshiki Inoue Also in Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!! (1992)
Airi Taira Also in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Haruka Kinami Also in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Kanji Tsuda Also in 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Media & music
On YouTube
233K subscribers
Awards
About this person
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. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho called him "the greatest storyteller of our time", while Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz proclaimed Urasawa to be a national treasure in Japan. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors of all time.
