Naoki Urasawa
Nascimento : 1960-01-02,
História
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.
Art Direction
Kazuyoshi Saitо made an offer to collaborate with Naoki Urasawa, with whom he has a close relationship, after he saw Urasawa's rough drawing of a boy who strummed a broom like a guitar. The image matched what Saitо completely had in mind for his song "Boy." Urasawa created a storyboard, and completed an animation on his own for the first time. Urasawa also illustrated the song's album cover.
Director
Kazuyoshi Saitо made an offer to collaborate with Naoki Urasawa, with whom he has a close relationship, after he saw Urasawa's rough drawing of a boy who strummed a broom like a guitar. The image matched what Saitо completely had in mind for his song "Boy." Urasawa created a storyboard, and completed an animation on his own for the first time. Urasawa also illustrated the song's album cover.
Character Designer
Jiantan é um garoto que tem que sair de Xian após a morte de sua mãe para ir para as pradarias tibetanas e começar a viver com o pai que ele mal se lembra. Seu pai, LaGeBa, é um médico ocupado que decidiu afastar-se da cidade e residem no Tibete, onde ele é o médico essencial dos pobres da comunidade em que vive. Para ajudar seu pai, Jiantan tem que aprender a pastorear ovelhas. Enquanto tenta aprender sua nova responsabilidade, ele é salvo por um mastim tibetano cor de ouro. Ambos, Jiantan e o grande cachorro, ajudam um ao outro enquanto tentam se adaptar a este novo ambiente.
Writer
Último filme da trilogia, que se passa em 2015, quando o “Amigo”, já Presidente do Mundo, quer destruir a humanidade e Kanna, a sobrinha de Kenji, vive no submundo tentando derrotá-lo, assim como os amigos de infância de Kenji, para quem ele ainda não morreu.
Writer
Segundo filme da trilogia, que se passa no Japão 15 anos após os eventos do primeiro, onde o culto liderado pelo “Amigo” comanda o país sob uma ditadura fascista.
Writer
Baseado na premiada série de mangá criada por Naoki Urasawa, 20th Century Boys é o primeiro da trilogia live-action desta aventura, inspirada originalmente pela canção 20th Century Boy, do T. Rex. Em 1969, Kenji, um aluno da escola elementar e seus amigos, construíram uma base secreta em suas férias de verão. Fantasiando uma luta contra um vilão que queria conquistar o mundo, escreveram o “Livro das Profecias”. Anos depois, em 1997, Kenji se tornou o gerente de uma loja de conveniências e leva uma vida normal depois de desistir do sonho de se tornar uma estrela do rock. Sua vida entediante, de repente, vira de cabeça para baixo quando um de seus amigos dos tempos da escola morre misteriosamente e uma família inteira na vizinhança desaparece. Ao mesmo tempo, um culto religioso e seu líder misterioso, chamado de Amigo, emerge e uma estranha cadeia de eventos duplicando exatamente os eventos descritos no Livro das Profecias se segue. Seria o início do fim do mundo? Quem é o Amigo?
Screenplay
Baseado na premiada série de mangá criada por Naoki Urasawa, 20th Century Boys é o primeiro da trilogia live-action desta aventura, inspirada originalmente pela canção 20th Century Boy, do T. Rex. Em 1969, Kenji, um aluno da escola elementar e seus amigos, construíram uma base secreta em suas férias de verão. Fantasiando uma luta contra um vilão que queria conquistar o mundo, escreveram o “Livro das Profecias”. Anos depois, em 1997, Kenji se tornou o gerente de uma loja de conveniências e leva uma vida normal depois de desistir do sonho de se tornar uma estrela do rock. Sua vida entediante, de repente, vira de cabeça para baixo quando um de seus amigos dos tempos da escola morre misteriosamente e uma família inteira na vizinhança desaparece. Ao mesmo tempo, um culto religioso e seu líder misterioso, chamado de Amigo, emerge e uma estranha cadeia de eventos duplicando exatamente os eventos descritos no Livro das Profecias se segue. Seria o início do fim do mundo? Quem é o Amigo?
Writer
After her parents' death, Umino Miyuki was forced to give up a promising future in tennis to take care of her three younger siblings. Her elder brother, in a plan to become rich, disappears, leaving a 250 million debt on his sister's shoulders. Two debt collectors seek her out for payment and inform her that she will be forced to work as a bath hostess at a bath house if she cannot come up with the money. Miyuki makes up her mind to become a professional tennis player in order to win the prize money. She seeks for help from the son of a famous tennis family, Ootori Keiichiro, who was also her senior in middle school and fellow tennis player. Will Miyuki be able to become a pro and pay off the debt?
Comic Book
After her parents' death, Umino Miyuki was forced to give up a promising future in tennis to take care of her three younger siblings. Her elder brother, in a plan to become rich, disappears, leaving a 250 million debt on his sister's shoulders. Two debt collectors seek her out for payment and inform her that she will be forced to work as a bath hostess at a bath house if she cannot come up with the money. Miyuki makes up her mind to become a professional tennis player in order to win the prize money. She seeks for help from the son of a famous tennis family, Ootori Keiichiro, who was also her senior in middle school and fellow tennis player. Will Miyuki be able to become a pro and pay off the debt?
Self
Filmed in Japan, this program looks beyond the stereotypes to objectively examine the history of manga, how manga are drawn, and manga's influence on Japanese life as illustrated by cosplay bars, where people dress up as their favorite characters; manga kissa, 24/7 manga cafes; and Comicket, the twice-annual comics market that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. The program also introduces viewers to a cross-section of mangaka icons: Vagabond creator Takehiko Inoue; Naoki Urasawa, author of The Pushman and Other Stories; Jiro Taniguchi; Yoshihiro Tatsumi; and Kan Takahama.
Writer
Yawara Inokuma competes for Japan in the Atlanta Olympic Games as she meets with several familiar faces throughout the tournament.
Creator
Yawara Inokuma competes for Japan in the Atlanta Olympic Games as she meets with several familiar faces throughout the tournament.
Writer
Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.
Creator
Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.
Writer
Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving the championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Because of the pressure from her grandfather she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, over time she comes to understand why her grandfather loves judo and appreciates it more.
Comic Book
Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving the championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Because of the pressure from her grandfather she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, over time she comes to understand why her grandfather loves judo and appreciates it more.
